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Vietnam sent more than 78,000 workers abroad in the first half of this year, fulfilling 62.4% of the yearly target, according to the Department of Overseas Labor under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs. Japan, Taiwan (China), and the Republic of Korea (RoK) remained the largest recipients of …

A tourism boom has helped cut Japan’s rice stockpile to the lowest this century as foreign visitors gobble up sushi, onigiri and other dishes with the staple, officials told AFP Wednesday. Bigger factors, however, were lower harvests caused by hot weather and water shortages, as well as prices rising at …

Three Chinese teenagers said they came to Vietnam to look for jobs following guidance of an unknown broker and, when assuming they could be sold to Cambodia, murdered a taxi driver to escape. Huang Jie Cheng, 18, Luo Shi Jun, 16, and Gan Ying, 17, have been detained and are …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Wednesday that the chief of the Palestinian Hamas militant group, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran along with one of his bodyguards. “The residence of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political office of Hamas Islamic Resistance, was hit in Tehran, and as a result of this …

Far-right protesters fueled by anger and false online rumors hurled bottles and stones at officers and set a police van ablaze Tuesday outside a northwest England mosque near where three girls were fatally stabbed a day earlier. Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the “thuggery” and said the crowd had hijacked …

The National Cybersecurity Association (NCA) released an anti-scamming application on Tuesday, helping users detect signs of scamming through phone numbers, bank accounts and online links. The nTrust application, developed by the NCA itself, is available for free on Google Play and App Store. Besides checking phone numbers, bank accounts and …

Heavy rains on Monday and Tuesday resulted in five casualties and heavy property losses in northern Vietnam, the Vietnam Disaster and Dyke Management Authority under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said. Downpour-triggered landslides and floods killed a 44-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man in the northwestern province of …

The Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line has missed the deadline for its elevated section again, after failing to go into commercial operation on July 28. The Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line, the second of Hanoi once operational, measures 12.5 km in length with total capital of 34.8 trillion (US$1.4 billion). Its construction …

A drive out to Atlanta’s sprawling suburbs passes the cultural centers, schools and houses of worship that opened as this became the nation’s sixth-largest metropolitan area. Displaying the diversity within the growth, shops and brightly lit billboards advertise in Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Hindi. The changes have been stark even …

Landslides in India triggered by pounding monsoon rains struck tea plantations and killed at least 108 people Tuesday, with at least 250 others rescued from mud and debris. The southern coastal state of Kerala has been battered by torrential downpours, with blocked roads into the disaster area in Wayanad district …