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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida starts a tour of key Western partners on Monday, after unveiling his country’s biggest military buildup since World War Two as Tokyo weighs steps to counter China’s growing power. Kishida, who will host a summit of the Group of Seven (G7) industrial powers in May, …

Gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles have abducted more than 30 people from a train station in Nigeria’s southern Edo state, the governor’s office said on Sunday. The attack is the latest example of the growing insecurity that has spread to nearly every corner of Africa’s most populous country, posing a …

England’s National Health Service (NHS) aims to begin discharging thousands of patients into care homes and other settings in the next few weeks in an effort to free up desperately needed beds during one of its toughest ever winters. The state-run health service, which delivers free care for to the …

Malaysia will take a 1-0 lead into the second leg of their Asean Championship semi-final against Thailand in Bangkok on Tuesday after Faisal Halim’s early strike earned Kim Pan-gon’s side victory in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. The 2010 champions could have had a greater advantage at the end of the …

Military helicopters airlifted hundreds of people from communities cut off by “once in a century” floods in Australia’s northwest, an official leading relief efforts said on Sunday, noting water covered some places “as far as the eye could see”. The crisis in the Kimberley – an sparsely populated area in …

Residents of a deteriorating apartment building are refusing to leave their homes and move to a new building as they do not know how much they will be compensated for their loss. The three-floor building, located at 440 Tran Hung Dao Street in Ho Chi HCMC’s District 5, which was …

Colorful fireworks displays will blast off from six Ho Chi Minh City locations at 12 a.m. Lunar New Year’s day January 22 after a two-year covid hiatus. Each fifteen-minute show will be held in a different district, said Deputy Head of the HCMC Culture and Sports Department Vo Trong Nam …

After a three-year Covid hiatus, immigration at the Mong Cai International Border Gate connecting Vietnam and China resumed at 8 a.m. Sunday. Thousands of Chinese citizens in Vietnam gathered at the border gate in Quang Ninh Province to cross into their home country. Over 1,000 crossed in the first two …

The northern port city of Hai Phong has begun construction of a VND2.5 trillion ($106.52 million) administrative center to host different government agencies, according to local authorities. The center in the suburban district of Thuy Nguyen will consist of 14 units; two of them will have 15 floors. The project …

Hundreds of Tesla owners gathered at the automaker’s showrooms and distribution centres in China over the weekend, demanding rebates and credit after sudden price cuts they said meant they had overpaid for electric cars they bought earlier. On Saturday, about 200 recent buyers of the Tesla Model Y and Model …