The Vietnamese government has passed a plan to dissolve the National Financial Supervisory Commission.

TOKYO -- The average price to wholesalers of rice harvested in Japan in 2024 hit a new record high amid thin trading in May, an agriculture ministry report showed Tuesday.

Indonesian police said on Tuesday that two people have been arrested over the shooting death of an Australian man and the wounding of another Australian man in a nighttime attack in a villa on the resort island of Bali.

The price of television rights for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Vietnam is expected to exceed the US$15 million paid for the 2022 tournament, making acquisition difficult for local broadcasters.

Hundreds of passengers of a midnight flight were stranded for about 40 minutes inside a jetway at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City as an exit door of the corridor was not opened.

Over 1,800 base transceiver stations (BTS) across Da Nang City, central Vietnam have been installed in forms that blend seamlessly into their surroundings such as coconut trees, air-conditioning units, and water tanks.

SAN FRANCISCO, United States -- The US Department of Defense on Monday awarded OpenAI a $200 million contract to put generative artificial intelligence (AI) to work for the military.

SYDNEY - Less than half of working age women are employed across the Pacific Islands due to outdated laws and other barriers, the World Bank said in a new report on Tuesday, and said closing the gender gap could boost economic growth.

Four Atletico Madrid ultras have been handed suspended jail sentences for hanging a dummy of Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior from a bridge in what police deemed a «hate crime», judicial sources said on Monday.

US President Donald Trump was on Monday leaving a Group of Seven summit early as he hinted of greater involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict and warned Tehran residents to evacuate.

The transport and occupational safety unit under the Department of Construction in Da Nang City, central Vietnam on Monday announced the temporary suspension of several electric tourist vehicles operating in the coastal city.

WASHINGTON -- The United States on Monday moved to extend federal protections to all species of pangolins -- a step that would tighten trade restrictions and highlight the urgent conservation plight of the world's only scaly mammals.

NEW YORK -- Donald Trump's family business licensed its name to launch a U.S. mobile service and a $499 smartphone on Monday, calling it Trump Mobile, in the latest deal brokered by the president's children to capitalize on his last name while he is in office.

KANANASKIS, Canada -- Electric fences, drones, thermal cameras and police dogs have all been deployed at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies to protect world leaders from hungry bears.

In a small rented room tucked inside the bustling streets of Ho Chi Minh City, Tieu Tuong Huy sits surrounded by conical hats and paintbrushes — far from the path his engineering degree once laid out for him.

South Korea's government will introduce a second supplementary budget for the year on Thursday, after passing a 13.8 trillion won ($10.13 billion) budget in May, to support an economy weighed down by U.S. tariffs and sluggish consumer demand.

The death toll in Vietnam from heavy rains and flooding caused by Typhoon Wutip has risen to seven, authorities said on Monday.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Israel recently confirmed that all Vietnamese citizens residing in the country have remained safe following recent missile attacks from Iran.

Major General Truong Son Lam, director of the police department in Ben Tre Province, southern Vietnam, has been appointed chairman of the members’ council of major telecom service provider MobiFone, effective from June 12.

Swaying to dance music and TikTok-fuelled pop under a disco ball, young punters are packed shoulder to shoulder while sipping on coffee, their energy powered by pour-overs rather than pints.

Three flights from Ho Chi Minh City, southern Vietnam to north-central Thanh Hoa Province were unable to land and had to divert to Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport on Saturday after an unmanned aerial vehicle was spotted, according to the Northern Airports Authority.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Monday that state utility Tenaga Nasional has committed 43 billion ringgit ($10.1 billion) to upgrade the national grid infrastructure.

LUXEMBOURG - The European Investment Bank will back a planned power interconnector between Spain and France with an investment of 1.6 billion euros ($1.84 billion), it said on Monday, after Spain and Portugal's governments sought EU help to improve their power links following a huge blackout in April.

Vietnam’s law-making National Assembly (NA) has unanimously approved amendments to the 2013 Constitution, officially eliminating the district-level administrative unit nationwide starting July 1 and restructuring local administrations into a two-tiered system.

STOCKHOLM -- The world's nuclear-armed states are beefing up their atomic arsenals and walking out of arms control pacts, creating a new era of threat that has brought an end to decades of reductions in stockpiles since the Cold War, a think tank said on Monday.

In a tiny classroom on Truong Sa Island in the East Vietnam Sea, the cheerful sounds of 'Hello! How are you?' echo from a wall-mounted TV as a group of third-graders clap and sing along to a children’s English song.

Some 20,000 Vietnamese visit South Korea each year for travel and cosmetic procedures, making Vietnam one of the top six sources of medical tourists to Seoul.

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Cambodia said on Sunday it had asked the International Court of Justice to resolve its border disputes with Thailand, after a flare-up in their long-running row led the Southeast Asian neighbours to mobilise troops on both sides of the border.

Police in Hanoi on Saturday evening inspected compliance with traffic safety regulations along the ‘trackside café street,’ asking hundreds of foreign tourists and locals to leave the area, citing safety concerns.

Vietnam’s law-making National Assembly (NA) has made history by passing the Law on Digital Technology Industry, establishing Vietnam as the first country to enact a standalone law focused solely on the digital technology sector.

Nearly 400 counterfeit fashion products have been seized at Saigon Square in downtown Ho Chi Minh City as officials are ramping up efforts to crack down on the sale of fake branded goods, according to the Agency for Domestic Market Surveillance and Development under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

All seven people on a helicopter in northern India were killed early on Sunday when it crashed while ferrying passengers on a popular Hindu pilgrimage route in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, officials said.

Amazon will invest A$20 billion ($12.97 billion) from 2025 to 2029 to expand, operate and maintain its data center infrastructure in Australia, bolstering the nation's artificial intelligence capabilities, it said in a blog post on Saturday.

Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on each other overnight into Sunday, stoking fears of a wider conflict after Israel expanded its surprise campaign against its main rival with a strike on the world's biggest gas field.