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A 20-year-old man has been arrested in the southern province of An Giang for impersonating a police officer as a “show-off.” The police took in Pham Vu Linh while he was sitting at a coffee shop in Long Xuyen Town wearing a sergeant major’s uniform last Saturday. The arrest followed …

High-altitude winds and a cold front are set to bring rains to northern Vietnam starting Tuesday. The region has been dry for the past week with temperatures at 22-25 degrees Celsius during the day and 10-12 degrees at night. On Tuesday northwestern and northeastern regions will get rains due to …

Four international aid agencies including Save the Children said on Sunday they were suspending their humanitarian programmes in Afghanistan in response to the Taliban-run administration’s order to stop female employees from working. The administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) not to let female staff work …

Six people died and two were injured after a passenger bus careened off a bridge and plunged into an overflowing river in northwestern Spain, emergency services said on Sunday. Two survivors – the vehicle’s 63-year-old driver and a female passenger – were pulled out of the river by firefighters with …

A deadly blizzard paralyzed Buffalo, New York, on Christmas Day, trapping motorists in their cars, knocking out electricity to thousands of homes and raising the death toll from a severe winter storm system that has chilled much of the United States for days. At least 30 people have died in …

A suspect accused of gunning down three Kurdish people in Paris told investigators of his “hatred of foreigners”, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday. The 69-year-old man was arrested on Friday after two men and a woman were shot dead at a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in …

The National Assembly will convene its second extraordinary session on January 5 to discuss urgent personnel issues, NA General Secretary Bui Van Cuong said. The session, slated to focus on Vietnam’s 2021-2030 national master plan “with a vision towards 2050,” will discuss and issue decisions on several financial and budget …

British pop star pedophile Gary Glitter, who used to serve three years in Vietnam for child sexual abuse, will be released from a U.K. prison next year after serving only half his sentence for sexually abusing a young girl. The 78-year-old was jailed for attempted rape, unlawful sexual intercourse with …

Six more bodies have been recovered from the sea after a Thai warship went down in the Gulf of Thailand six days ago, the country’s navy said Saturday. The HTMS Sukhothai sank late Sunday roughly 37 kilometers (22 miles) off Thailand’s southeastern coast, with a massive rescue operation managing to …

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police believe killed more than 20 western backpackers on the “hippie trail” through Asia in the 1970s and 1980s, returned to France on Saturday after nearly two decades behind bars in Nepal. Nepal’s Supreme Court ordered the release of Sobhraj, known as the “bikini …