NEW YORK -- Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday that it will invest US$912 million in five U.S. plants to further localize production of hybrid vehicles, which continue to sell well in the country.

PARIS -- A special exhibition on Japanese manga was unveiled to the press at the Guimet Museum in Paris on Tuesday, with the venue packed with reporters and photographers engrossed in the exhibited works.

A new round of floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain in central Vietnam since the weekend has killed at least eight people, a government report said on Wednesday, with traders also warning that it could hamper the ongoing coffee harvest.

Finland Outlook 2026, a major education and career event scheduled for this weekend in Ho Chi Minh City, will offer students and young professionals updated information on studying, working, and living in Finland, with representatives from Tampere and top Finnish vocational and applied sciences institutions attending.

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks, an approach that also holds promise in the search for life beyond our planet.

Three out of seven colonial-era villas located at the 1 Ly Thai To site in Vuon Lai Ward, Ho Chi Minh City have suffered severe structural deterioration and require urgent intervention, while the remaining four villas are still deemed structurally sound.

Vietnam’s Long An International Port has outperformed ports and logistics enterprises worldwide to win the People Development Award at the 2025 International Bulk Journal Awards, held in Liverpool City, England early this week.

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Prices of leafy greens and common vegetables across Vietnam have doubled, even tripled, in the aftermath of recent storms and flooding, drawing comparisons to the COVID-19 period when household budgets were heavily strained.

Japan has the potential to win next year's World Cup, Keisuke Honda, one of the country's biggest football stars in the first two decades of the millennium, said on Tuesday.

FIFA is set to launch a formal investigation into the internal operations of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) after the global soccer body suspended seven naturalized players of the national team over the alleged use of doctored documents.

Mercedes-Benz Vietnam has officially introduced the GLE 400 e 4MATIC, marking the luxury brand’s first plug-in hybrid (PHEV) model in the Vietnamese market, at the price of over VND4.6 billion (US$174,320).

Long An International Port in Tay Ninh Province, southern Vietnam and Port of Kobe in Japan signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday to establish a strategic port partnership with a view to promoting trade, strengthening connectivity, and enhancing readiness for global integration.

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Aeon Mall Vietnam Co., Ltd., an arm of Japanese retail giant Aeon Mall, has received approval to build a major shopping complex in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam.

SYDNEY -- Asian stocks sagged to one-month lows on Tuesday with the heaviest selling in Japan and South Korea's tech-driven markets as earnings at chipmaker Nvidia loom later in the week as a test for valuations across the sector.

Yame, Fukuoka Pref. -- Three people were confirmed dead after a suspected plane crash in a mountainous area in the city of Yame in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Tuesday.

PARIS -- France's Louvre Museum on Monday closed a gallery hosting Greek vases and office spaces as its structures designed in the 1930s are in a dire state, the world's most visited museum said, less than a month after a daring heist exposed its vulnerabilities.

TOKYO -- The Japan National Tourism Organization said Tuesday that the estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in October surged 17.6 pct from a year earlier to 3,896,300, marking a record high for the month.

Bridget Jones has joined the likes of Mary Poppins, Harry Potter and other beloved film characters with her own statue in London's Leicester Square.

Dulux paint maker AkzoNobel said on Tuesday that it plans to merge with paintmaker Axalta Coating Systems in a deal that will create a combined company with an enterprise value of $25 billion.

Shares of South Korean entertainment firm The Pinkfong Company, producer of the popular children's song «Baby Shark,» surged more than 60% in their market debut on Tuesday.

A delegation of senior leaders from 26 Chinese corporations and companies, all headed by members of the Pei (Bui in Vietnamese) family clan, has proposed a wide range of cooperation projects with Ho Chi Minh City, from a China-Vietnam industrial park specializing in green construction materials to waste treatment, tourism, and healthcare.

Highlands Coffee, the largest coffee chain in Vietnam by store count, reported its strongest third-quarter profit in two years thanks to rising same-store sales and prepares for a future initial public offering (IPO).

SEOUL -- South Korea pledged Monday to phase out coal power plants that lack emission-reducing measures, an ambitious step for a country that generates a third of its electricity from the fossil fuel.

WASHINGTON - The United States will expedite visas for foreign visitors with tickets to FIFA World Cup matches taking place next year in 11 U.S. cities, President Donald Trump said on Monday.

Vietnam and Kuwait agreed to upgrade their 49-year relationship to a strategic partnership and aim for two-way trade of up to US$15 billion by 2030 during talks between Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah in Kuwait City on Monday.

New Zealand’s highest court sided on Monday with a lower court’s ruling that drivers of Uber who brought a case against the rideshare company should be treated as employees, a decision that could pave the way for collective bargaining.

Samsung Electronics this month raised prices of certain memory chips - now in short supply due to the global race to build AI data centres - by as much as 60% compared to September, two people with knowledge of the hikes said.

The Ministry of Public Security has filed criminal charges against Le Trung Khoa and an accomplice for allegedly producing, storing, and disseminating information, documents, and materials deemed to oppose the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Charoen Pokphand Foods, or CP Foods (CPF), the Thai agricultural and food conglomerate and parent company of C.P. Vietnam, has reported its third-quarter and nine-month business results for 2025, recording revenue from Vietnam at only 22.8 billion baht (US$703 million) in the quarter, a steep 20-percent year-on-year drop.

In a gym in Ho Chi Minh City, the sight has become familiar: a young man balancing on one leg as he deadlifts, runs, and performs pull-ups with remarkable precision.

SINGAPORE -- The derivatives arm of Singapore Exchange (SGX) (SGXL.SI) said on Monday that it would launch bitcoin and ether cryptocurrency perpetual futures trading on its platform.

A project developing oversized crabs, known as ‘sumo’ crabs, drew strong attention at the 2025 Ca Mau Startup Competition in Ca Mau, the southernmost province of Vietnam, as it aims to reverse broodstock decline and boost the size of local farmed crabs.

Central Vietnam is experiencing continuous heavy rains, with total rainfall from late Sunday through Wednesday likely to exceed 850mm, while river levels in Hue City continue rising, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.