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A former Buddhist monk in Thailand was convicted Wednesday of misusing donations to a highly praised hospice he established for people with HIV/AIDS and given the maximum term of 50 years in prison.

More than 12 hours after heavy rain poured over night, several basements at the Cityland Park Hills upscale complex in Ho Chi Minh City remained under over a meter of water on Thursday morning, leaving motorbikes, medical equipment, and machinery severely…

Guangzhou South Railway Station handled more than 1 million passenger trips on Oct. 1, a first for any Chinese station, with trains leaving 40 seconds apart at peak times.

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Long Thanh International Airport is expected to handle around 30 flights a day when it begins commercial operations on Dec. 24, four of them on international routes and the rest domestic.

This city is ranked highest among all Southeast Asian peers in the Oxford Economics Global Cities Index 2026, which assesses the performance and future potential of the world's largest cities.

A Singapore court on Oct. 6 sentenced an Indonesian seafarer to 10 months in jail and six strokes of the cane for trying to board a flight at Changi Airport with a knife hidden in his shoe.

Laotian police seized 521 kg of crystal methamphetamine as it was being loaded onto a private jet at Luang Prabang International Airport earlier this month, a shipment Malaysian police say was bound for Manila.

A 20-meter-tall bodhi tree collapsed across Dinh Tien Hoang Street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City during the morning rush hour of Oct. 7, plunging the many streets into three hours of traffic gridlock.

A 20-meter-tall bodhi tree collapsed across Dinh Tien Hoang Street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City during the morning rush hour of Oct. 7, plunging the many streets into three hours of traffic gridlock.

The mother of slain Hong Kong model Abby Choi told a murder trial on Oct. 5 that the ex-husband and former in-laws accused of killing her daughter had lived off her family's money.

Households in areas declared to be experiencing an emergency disaster in Thailand will receive an initial flood payout of THB10,000 (US$297) within 15 days without having to submit photographic evidence.

An extremely wealthy Chinese immigrant and his wife amassed a brood of 21 children through a surrogacy scheme and raised them in a “house of horrors,” prosecutors alleged Tuesday.

A 71-year-old homeless man in central China who spent 21 years collecting scrap to survive has received more than 420,000 yuan (US$63,000) in pension payments he did not know he was owed.

Thai customs officers arrested two foreign passengers at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport after finding U.S. dollar banknotes worth more than THB56 million (US$1.66 million) hidden in their luggage.

U.K. graduates face a shrinking job market, with advertised graduate vacancies plunging 45.6% year-on-year to a record low in July as employers cut hiring amid wider economic pressures and growing use of AI.

Belgian physicist Francis Halzen on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on subatomic particles at the South Pole, the award jury said.

Chinese scientists have built a 250-kilowatt plant that makes hydrogen and fresh water from seawater in a single system, reusing the electrolyzer's waste heat to raise electrical efficiency by 14.4%.

Nearly 8,000 severely disabled Singaporeans from lower-income households have received almost S$50 million (US$39 million) in long-term care financial support through the government's ElderFund scheme since its launch in 2020.

A Singaporean woman convicted of promoting prostitution at a chain of massage parlors in Washington state is the third citizen of the city-state named on the U.S.

Seven travelers were caught trying to bring more than S$200,000 (US$156,300) in undeclared cash into Singapore during a Sept. 22-28 checkpoint operation that found 67 people breaking border rules.

Foreign tourists are forced to navigate flooded streets in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday afternoon following a heavy rain.

Foreign tourists are forced to navigate flooded streets in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday afternoon following a heavy rain.

British expat Barry Mattacott, 63, was traveling by motorcycle from Quy Nhon to Da Nang when Google Maps led him onto a mountainous road, where he got lost and suffered a flat tire before police came to his aid.

A 28-year-old laboratory technician at a Russian anti-plague institute died in Siberia on Oct. 2, days after she reportedly broke a test tube of plague bacteria, leaving about 200 people under medical observation.

Five public universities made the top 10 of U.S.

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.

Malaysia's Road Transport Department (JPJ) has taken action against 1,346 foreigners, including 223 Singaporeans, for traffic offenses in Johor over the past four months.

A lawyer in Singapore has shown off the Chanel jewelry and Dior bags she won at an online auction of luxury goods seized in the country's S$3 billion (US$2.34 billion) money laundering case.

Most foreigners and international students in Australia can no longer apply for a student visa from within the country under new rules that took effect on Oct. 2.

The fourth plenum of the 14th Party Central Committee opened in Hanoi on Monday, with General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam delivering the opening remarks.

Ho Chi Minh City police arrested 12 men on Sunday who allegedly operated a citywide ring to steal and resell approximately 2,700 cats for meat.

It’s a day for wagging tails, happy faces and a special annual blessing at a church in the Philippine capital.

More than 7,600 workers and engineers are racing to complete the expansion of Phu Quoc International Airport, which is scheduled to begin operations in April 2027 ahead of the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.

Philippines authorities arrested more than 200 "mostly Chinese" foreign workers in the country's largest crackdown on illegal online gaming operators this year, the immigration bureau said.

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Rising tuition and tighter U.S. visa and work rules are prompting more Vietnamese students to consider universities in Singapore and Hong Kong instead.

Indonesia has suspended the chief of a West Java prison and four senior officers after state inspectors found more than 10 apartment-style houses where inmates allegedly paid to live.

Authorities in the Chinese city of Nanjing have removed a kindergarten principal and disciplined 11 officials after a former teacher reported that cooks washed mops and drain covers in the wok used for children's meals.

A Singaporean livestreamer recently shared how he got a racist slant-eye gesture after asking a man in the Swiss village of Giswil for help lifting his fallen bike during his first motorcycle trip through Europe.

A woman was escorted off a Batik Air flight at Singapore's Changi Airport after refusing to hand a large cardboard box to cabin crew, delaying departure by about an hour.

A businessman in Ho Chi Minh City was arrested on Friday for allegedly selling counterfeit goods carrying luxury labels such as Rolex and Hermes.

Ho Chi Minh City recorded 3,810 lightning strikes during heavy thunderstorms on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, including more than 2,000 ground strikes, which represent the highest daily totals recorded in nearly two years.

Japan's capital Tokyo is the only Asian city to rank among the world's 20 highest-performing cities in 2026, placing ninth globally in Oxford Economics's Global Cities Index.

Ho Chi Minh City will implement widespread traffic adjustments starting Oct. 10 as sections of Cach Mang Thang Tam and Nguyen Thi Minh Khai streets become one-way to accommodate metro construction.

Thai Airways CEO Chai Eamsiri said Friday that the airline's board had fired him following the flag carrier's chaotic response to severe flooding in Bangkok last week.

Vietnam's civil servants and public employees will get a seven-day Lunar New Year break from Feb. 4 to Feb. 10, 2027, under a holiday schedule the government has approved.

A Vietnamese mathematician and his German colleague have helped resolve a 55-year-old mathematical conjecture, using randomness and techniques inspired by juggling to tackle the problem.

A Ho Chi Minh City court on Thursday awarded the owner of six sinking villas over VND1.7 billion (US$65,500) of the nearly VND45 billion she sought over construction next door.

Hope Foundation has expanded its support from children with critical illnesses to financially disadvantaged cancer patients over 18, while continuing to assist children in need.