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Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet on Monday launched a US$1.7 billion canal project that aims to provide a new link from the Mekong River to the sea. Manet called the 180-km (110-mile) project “historic” and vowed to “finish it at all costs.” “We must build this canal at all costs,” …

Singapore on Friday hanged a convicted drug trafficker, authorities said, in the city-state’s second execution this year. The 45-year-old Singaporean man was executed at Changi prison for trafficking 36.93 grams (1.3 ounces) of pure heroin, more than twice the 15 grams that merits the death penalty in the strict city-state, …

Design flaws could cause a delay of three months or more in the launch of chip giant Nvidia’s upcoming artificial-intelligence chips, tech-focused publication the Information said on Friday. The setback could affect customers such as Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s, Google and Microsoft, which have collectively ordered tens of billions of dollars’ …

Olympic boxer Imane Khelif said the wave of hateful scrutiny she has faced over misconceptions about her gender “harms human dignity,” and she called for an end to bullying athletes after being greatly affected by the international backlash against her. The Algerian athlete spoke about her tumultuous Olympic experience on …

A nearly 10-meter-high hillside collapsed onto a couple’s house in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son on Sunday morning, resulting in their deaths. The victims, To Van Muoi, 47, and his wife Mai Thi Ha, 49, were asleep in their home, which also served as a coffee shop, when …

Indonesia said it has banned the privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo, citing concerns that it could be used to access pornography and online gambling websites which are illegal in the country, the communications ministry said on Friday. Indonesia, with the world’s biggest Muslim population, has strict rules that ban the sharing …

Chua Cau (Japanese Pagoda Bridge), a historic landmark in the ancient city of Hoi An, has reopened to visitors following a 19-month closure for restoration work. Pham Phu Ngoc, director of the Hoi An Cultural Heritage Conservation Center, said during the inauguration ceremony Saturday that the bridge has been fully …

An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck off the eastern shore of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said. The U.S. Geological Survey said pegged the magnitude at …

Floods and mudslides destroyed village homes and part of a highway in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Saturday, killing at least two people and leaving 17 missing in two incidents, state media reported on Saturday. Overnight in Kangding, a mountainous region in Sichuan’s western highlands, mudslides took down some …

Leaders of Laos, China, Cambodia and Russia on Saturday congratulated Vietnamese President To Lam on his election as Party General Secretary. The Lao leader’s congratulatory letter said: “On behalf of the Central Committee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and myself, I am honored and delighted to extend the warmest …