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HCMC – Long Thanh – Dau Giay Expressway linking the city with its neighbor Dong Nai Province should be extended to eight or 10 lanes with VND14.8 trillion ($605.6 million). Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC), which manages the expressway, has proposed to the Ministry of Transport that a 21.9-kilometer section of …

A Singapore film on religious and LGBTQ issues that premiered in New York this year has been banned in the city-state because it could create “social division,” authorities said. The movie #LookAtMe by Singaporean film-maker Ken Kwek “exceeded the film classification guidelines” and cannot be screened locally, according to a …

Indonesia will demolish and rebuild a football stadium where a stampede killed more than 130 people this month, President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday as he vowed to”thoroughly transform” the sport in the soccer-madnation. The president, popularly known as Jokowi, was speaking to reporters at the state palace after meeting …

The Hanoi Public Transport Management Center has proposed collecting tolls from vehicles entering downtown areas starting 2024, with 15 toll booths on nine routes with high traffic density. In a report sent to the Department of Transport, the center divided the project into three phases. During the first phase, toll …

A man in the northern province of Hai Duong was arrested for attacking a police officer with a knife after his son was fined for not wearing a helmet. Nguyen Dang Tuan, 41, was arrested by police to be investigated for “resisting a law enforcement officer in performance of official …

A Russian fighter plane crashed into a residential building in the southern city of Yeysk shortly after take-off on Monday, engulfing apartments in a fireball and killing at least 13 people, Interfax news agency reported. A further 19 people suffered injuries, agencies quoted local officials as saying. Yeysk is separated …

Storm Nesat lay centered 310 km northeast of the Paracel Islands at 7 a.m. Tuesday with winds of up to 149 kph. According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the system will move at 15 kph in a west-southwesterly direction, and by 4 a.m. Wednesday will be north of …

Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, said on Tuesday it was not in the business of selling its own electric vehicle (EV) brand but wanted its customers to sell EVs in large numbers by opening up the “closed loop” of auto manufacturing. The ambition lines up with Taiwan-based Foxconn’s …

Storm Nesat lay 310 km to the northeast of the Paracel Islands at 7 a.m. Tuesday with maximum wind speed of 149 kph. According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the storm will move at 15 kph within Tuesday in the west-southwest direction. By 4 a.m. of Wednesday, it …

Storm Nesat lay 310 km to the northeast of the Paracel Islands at 7 a.m. Tuesday with maximum wind speed of 149 kph. According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the storm will move at 15 kph within Tuesday in the west-southwest direction. By 4 a.m. of Wednesday, it …