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The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday suspended the export privileges of three U.S.-based firms for 180 days for what it said was the illegal export of satellite, rocket and defense technology to China. Quicksilver Manufacturing Inc, Rapid Cut LLC and U.S. Prototype Inc received technical drawings and blueprints from U.S. …

A nine-year-old girl in Dak Lak Province has been diagnosed with melioidosis or Whitmore’s disease, marking the first case in the Central Highlands region. The girl, who lives in Ea Sup District, was admitted to a local hospital on Jun. 4 with symptoms of high fever and enlarged parotid glands. …

A train bell rouses a Thai grandmother dozing in her fruit and flower stall, sending her rushing to fold in her awning before the locomotive slowly rumbles past, so close it almost touches her wares. Six times a day at the Mae Klong Railway Market, local customers and foreign tourists …

At least 17 people were killed and dozens injured Wednesday when a train derailed near the central Iranian city of Tabas after hitting an excavator, state media reported. “Seventeen people are dead and 37 injured people have been transferred to hospital,” emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi told state television. “The …

A Vietnamese professor working in London has been named winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)’s 2022 Interdisciplinary Prize. Professor Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh. Photo courtesy of Royal Society of Chemistry Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh, professor at University College London (UCL), is honored with the prize “for outstanding contributions …

About three weeks after Russian troops attacked Ukraine, Indonesian housewife Liesye Setiana was forced to close her banana chip business as cooking oil supplies dried up across the country. Millions of consumers and small business owners in the world’s fourth most populous nation have been rattled for months by skyrocketing …

Vietnam has been elected vice president of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), representing the Asia-Pacific region for a one-year term. The votes were cast at a meeting Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hungarian Ambassador Csaba Korosi was elected president of the 77th …

A Russian man was sentenced to seven years in jail on Tuesday for kidnapping a compatriot in the central province of Binh Thuan to extract a debt. Khlebostroev Konstantin, 25, was put on trial before Binh Thuan People’s Court for robbery. Khlebostroev committed the crime with Kristalenko Dmitrii, 29, and …

Apple must change the connector on iPhones sold in Europe by 2024 after EU countries and lawmakers agreed on Tuesday to a single charging port for mobile phones, tablets and cameras in a world first. The political intervention, which the European Commission said would make life easier for consumers and …

The World Bank on Tuesday slashed its global growth forecast by nearly a third to 2.9 percent for 2022, warning that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has compounded the damage from the Covid-19 pandemic, and many countries now faced recession. The war in Ukraine had magnified the slowdown in the global …