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An expert with the University of Transport and Communications has proposed jail sentences for drivers with alcohol levels of over 240 mg in 100 ml of blood. At a Tuesday conference on traffic safety in Vietnam, Le Thu Huyen said alcohol-related accidents account for around 36 percent of all traffic …

Orders have evaporated at Zhou’s textile company based just outside Shanghai, a city now stumbling free from a two-month lockdown that has left small businesses on life support. Sales are on “a very serious downward slope” and layoffs are imminent at his factory, owner Zhou told AFP, asking for his …

A U.S. court has sentenced a local man to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing children in Vietnam. Christopher Edwin Day, 52, received the sentence on May 16 from a court in Florida for two counts of “travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct” …

A prison inmate in the north central province of Thanh Hoa was recaptured Wednesday after escaping from jail for the third time while serving a life sentence. Trieu Quan Su, 32, was wanted by the police after escaping from the T-974 prison in Thach Thanh District at around 5 p.m. …

NA delegates may soon designate mental abuse, including couples reading each other’s messages or simply not communicating, as domestic violence. At a National Assembly discussion on Tuesday regarding a draft update for the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control, delegate Le Minh Nam proposed to add certain behaviors that …

Long queues at stalls selling a popular chicken dish, increasing prices and warnings about supply disruptions — Singaporeans are in a flap due to curbs on poultry exports from neighbouring Malaysia. Malaysia’s move to halt exports of 3.6 million chickens a month, which kicks in Wednesday, is the latest protectionist …

Insufficient water drainage capacity, disappearing lakes and poor urban planning are the chief reasons for flooding in Hanoi during heavy downpours. On Sunday and Monday over 80 spots were inundated following incessant rains, paralyzing traffic all over the city. As the rising water invaded homes and turned lives upside down, …

South Korean K-pop supergroup BTS used a White House visit Tuesday to call out a growth in anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States. The singer Park Ji-min, better known as Jimin, said through a translator ahead of a meeting with President Joe Biden that the group is “devastated by …

Ukraine’s national team are dreaming of a place at the World Cup to bring some relief to a war-torn nation as they face Scotland in a playoff semi-final on Wednesday. Oleksandr Petrakov’s side have not played a competitive match since Russia’s attack in February. Their trip to Scotland was postponed …

A bomb blast killed one person and injured nine others in a busy district of central Yangon on Tuesday, a Myanmar police source told AFP. The blast occurred around 3.20pm local time near a bus stop,” the police source said, requesting anonymity. “One man died in hospital and nine others …