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A car driver has been fined for charging a group of five Japanese tourists VND1 million (US$42) for a one-km trip in Hanoi. Police at the airport tracked down the driver on Sunday after the airport security center received an email the previous day from a family of Japanese who …

Police the northern Tuyen Quang Province are investigating if an unidentified man set fire to his house, killing his wife and children, before committing suicide. A fire engulfed a house in Trung Hoa Commune in Chiem Hoa District at around 3:30 p.m. on New Year’s Day. After firefighters and locals …

The Philippines’ main gateway remained on reduced operations on Monday after a New Year power outage that jolted its air traffic control, with authorities scrambling to resume full service after more than 300 flights were disrupted. The aging Ninoy Aquino international airport was early on Monday handling a maximum 15 …

Catholics will on Monday be able to pay their respects in the Vatican to former pope Benedict XVI, whose body will lie in state for three days at St Peter’s Basilica before his funeral. The German theologian, who died on Saturday aged 95, led the Catholic Church for eight years …

Vietnam’s “bamboo diplomacy” bolstered the nation’s international status amid global crises, said Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son. Unfamiliar security risks such as climate change, natural disasters and epidemics are part of everyday life now, and the long-term impacts of the Covid outbreak are hampering global recoveries everywhere, he said. However, …

Ukrainians cheered from their balconies while their air defenses blasted Russian missiles and drones out of the sky in the first hours of 2023, as Moscow saw in the new year by attacking civilian targets across Ukraine. Ukrainian forces shot down 45 Iranian-made Sahed drones fired by Russia on the …

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s president on Sunday, delivering a searing indictment of far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro and vowing a drastic change of course to rescue a nation plagued with hunger, poverty and racism. In a speech to Congress after officially taking the reins …

Philippine authorities halted flights in and out of Manila on New Year’s Day due to a malfunction of air traffic control, causing chaos for tens of thousands of travellers. A total of 282 flights were either delayed, cancelled or diverted to other regional airports, affecting around 56,000 passengers at Manila’s …

The coming year will be one of much-delayed pension reform, President Emmanuel Macron told the French in a New Year’s Eve speech on Saturday. Reforming France’s costly and complicated pension system was a key plank of Macron’s election platform when he came to power in 2017. But his initial proposals …

Air travelers to Canada from China must test negative for Covid-19 no more than two days before departure, Ottawa said on Saturday, joining other nations that have implemented such restrictions. The requirements, which take effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on Thursday, apply to all travelers aged 2 and older on …