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Two Philippine air force aviators were killed in a crash Wednesday, while rescuers were searching for another plane that went missing the previous day with six people on board, authorities said. During a training, the military’s SF260 Marchetti plane plummeted onto a rice paddy in Pilar town near Manila, killing …

Thai police seized 1.1 tonnes of crystal methamphetamine in less than a week, officers said Tuesday, as the kingdom cracks down on smuggling that has surged since the country’s borders reopened. The haul comes after a spike in clashes between police and smugglers in the kingdom’s remote northern hinterlands, long …

Rescuers in Hanoi successfully brought down a woman stuck on a transmission tower on Wednesday morning. People in Bien Giang Ward, Ha Dong District, found the woman sitting on the tower which is 30 meters high at around 10 a.m. The local firefighting police were informed and they sent an …

Nguyen Ai Tam has been studying and protecting the endangered douc langur at the Kon Ka Kinh National Park for more than 15 years. After graduating in biology-environment from the University of Da Nang in 2006, Tam taught for a few months before joining a research project to protect the …

Police in Hanoi have arrested a man who stole nine smartphones from people visiting Tran Quoc Pagoda during the Lunar New Year holiday. Police in the Tay Ho District have arrested Chu Van Dung, 30, with property theft charges. Dung told police that he had taken advantage of the situation …

The United States, in a reversal, is poised to start a process that would eventually send dozens of M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday. Such a decision by the United States would come just days after Washington argued against sending the Abrams, despite …

Japan’s coastguard said on Wednesday that it had rescued four crew members from a cargo ship that sank overnight off the country’s southwest, but was still searching for 18 others. “At 7:14 a.m. (2214 GMT), four Chinese nationals were rescued but we’re still searching for the remaining 18 members,” a …

Entrepreneurs on Thailand’s holiday island of Phuket are bracing enthusiastically for the long-awaited return of Chinese tourists, hoping China’s reopening and dismantling of its strict Covid-19 curbs can boost their flagging businesses. In the year before the pandemic, nearly a third of Thailand’s visitors were Chinese tourists, who once accounted …

The U.S. Justice Department accused Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday of abusing its dominance in digital advertising, threatening to dismantle a key business at the heart of one of Silicon Valley’s most successful internet companies. The government said Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite, tackling a …

Three people were killed in a shooting at a convenience store in central Washington state early Tuesday, police said, and the suspect has died after an hours-long manhunt. Police were called to a Circle K in Yakima, Washington, about 3:30 a.m. when three people, who have not been identified, were …