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Singapore warned on Wednesday that economic growth could slow to a trickle next year owing to weakness in key export markets including the United States, Europe and China, as rising interest rates and the Ukraine war cause headwinds. The city-state’s economic performance is often seen as a useful barometer of …

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said Tuesday the country will ask Beijing to explain its “more benign” account of an incident involving Chinese coastguard taking rocket debris from Filipino soldiers in disputed waters. A senior Filipino navy official on Monday accused the Chinese coastguard of “forcefully” seizing parts of a rocket …

Japan manager Hajime Moriyasu is hoping the apprentices can upset the masters when they take on “role models” Germany in their World Cup opener on Wednesday. Germany has become a popular destination for Japanese players in recent years, with eight of the current squad playing in the Bundesliga. Moriyasu paid …

Australia coach Graham Arnold said he was confident his team would bounce back strongly after Tuesday’s deflating 4-1 loss to France, taking heart from their dream start against the world champions and Craig Goodwin’s shock early opener. Goodwin scored Australia’s first World Cup goal from open play since Tim Cahill’s …

Officers from the Ministry of Public Security have broken up an online gambling ring that collected VND30 trillion (US$1.2 billion) of bets in three years. The police raided 15 locations in HCMC and the neighboring Dong Nai Province on Tuesday to arrest 14 people, who will be investigated for gambling …

With skyscrapers instead of public infrastructure rising up from land lots of buildings relocated from Hanoi’s downtown areas, the capital’s urban planning seems to be missing in action. At a Monday conference on the Law on the Capital organized by the Hanoi People’s Committee and the Ministry of Justice, participants …

A man murdered his wife in gruesome manner after a motorbike chase Monday night in the northern province of Bac Giang. Than Van Hieu, 25, has reportedly told the police that he chased his wife on a motorbike at around 10 p.m. in Viet Yen District after they argued and …

A Vietnamese drug lord who ran a transnational drug trafficking ring and moved 1.6 tons of heroin around even while she was an international fugitive has been arrested, authorities say. Vu Hoang Oanh, sister of notorious crime boss Dung “Ha,” who was killed 2000 in HCMC by Nam Cam, another …

An earthquake that struck Indonesia’s West Java killed at least 268 people, many of them children, with 151 still missing, disaster relief officials said on Tuesday, as rescuers searched the rubble of destroyed buildings for survivors. The shallow 5.6-magnitude quake struck in Indonesia’s most populous province on Monday afternoon, causing …

Contaminated fried chicken wings were the primary cause of food poisoning that killed one student and hospitalized over 600 others of Ischool in Nha Trang last week, according to test results announced Tuesday. The Pasteur Institute Nha Trang said that salmonella, bacillus cereus and E.Coli bacteria were found in the …