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Twelve bodies have been found following a shipwreck in the South China Sea over the weekend that left more than two dozen crew members missing, Chinese authorities said Monday. The announcement came days after an engineering vessel 160 nautical miles (296 kilometers) southwest of Hong Kong suffered substantial damage and …

Those accused of corruption must have paid full compensation for their violations to be considered for amnesty this year, the public security ministry said. At a Monday ceremony on this year’s amnesty, Nguyen Van Long, Deputy Minister of Public Security, said criminals that “violated economic management orders and misused their …

Japan lodged a protest with China on Monday over a Chinese naval vessel sailing near disputed islands, as reports emerged of Russia also sending its own navy ship to the area. The islets in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku by Tokyo and the Diaoyu by Beijing, are …

Northern Vietnam should expect rains starting Monday night, especially in the mountains and midlands, the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has said. But Hanoi will not get any of the rain. From July 4 to 8 the region from Thanh Hoa to Phu Yen in central Vietnam will see the …

A section of Ring Road No.3 running through HCMC will be built in June next year, the municipal Department of Transport has said. It is six months sooner than previously planned, Tran Quang Lam, the department’s director, said at a meeting attended by Ministry of Transport officials at the weekend. …

British companies have turned increasingly glum about the outlook, with inflation surging and investment plans looking stagnant, according to the latest business survey that shows momentum rapidly draining from the economy. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said 54 percent of more than 5,700 companies it surveyed between May 16 …

Typhoon Chaba weakened into a tropical depression, but it is still expected to bring heavy rain in the central and eastern part of China over the next few days as it moves northward, Chinese forecasters said on Monday. The Central Meteorological Observatory lifted the typhoon blue warning on Chaba late …

Macau kicked off a new round of city-wide Covid-19 testing on Monday for its more than 600,000 residents, as officials raced to contain a spiraling number of cases in the worst outbreak to hit the world’s biggest gambling hub since the pandemic began. Coronavirus testing for all residents will take …

Three people were killed and several more were wounded in a shooting at a shopping center in Copenhagen on Sunday, Danish police said, adding they had arrested a 22-year-old Danish man and charged him with manslaughter. The attack rocked Denmark at the end of an otherwise joyful week, just after …

Six years after it began operation Hanoi’s BRT (bus rapid transit) has still not gained enough traction to become the public transport solution to traffic congestion and pollution. The Kim Ma-Yen Nghia BRT line, approved in 2007 at a cost of around US$55 million, began on New Year’s Day in …