A former Scoot crew supervisor was sentenced to 11 months' jail in Singapore on Oct. 27 after taking nearly SGD65,000 ($50,700) of the budget airline's in-flight food and beverage sales proceeds.
Phu Quoc International Airport on Vietnam's largest island put its second runway into commercial operation on Thursday morning after eight months of construction.
Armed with two bachelor's degrees from South Korea, 52-year-old Choi Chang Young is learning Vietnamese to pursue a master's degree in business administration in Vietnam.
Hanoi has proposed a VND22.2 trillion (US$860 million) revamp of the Hoan Kiem Lake area, due for completion in 2029, to expand public space and link the lake with nearby cultural and historical landmarks.
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern will teach students about "empathetic leadership" after being hired for a new job at the University of Sydney.
China's old-age dependency ratio overtook the child dependency ratio for the first time in 2025, meaning its working-age population now supports more people aged 65 and above than children.
Malaysian border officers detained a husband and wife at the Causeway checkpoint in Johor Bahru on Oct. 27 on suspicion of trying to take cash worth US$719,300 to Singapore.
Malaysia foiled an attempt to smuggle advanced artificial intelligence chips through the country's main airport, customs officials said Wednesday, in a case worth more than US$12 million.
More than one in 10 men in a Malaysian survey on dating costs said they had borrowed money to pay for dates, and nearly six in 10 said they usually pick up the whole bill.
A rail collision in Spain that claimed 68 lives on Wednesday came after a train was ordered to go in "error" despite a technical failure that halted all services, the transport minister said.
About one in six South Korean adults from Generation Z used or were prescribed GLP-1 obesity drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro in the past year, the highest rate of any generation, a survey by KB Financial Group shows.
Around 40% of all original homeowners have moved out of Hoi An, while rents for state-owned properties have soared to hundreds of millions of dong a month, putting the ancient town at risk of gradually losing its local population.
Thai immigration police have revoked an Israeli woman's visa and detained her pending deportation after she allegedly threatened national park staff and ordered hotel guests out on Koh Phangan.
At least 30 people were killed when two high-speed trains collided in Spain on Wednesday, the second deadly accident in less than a year on the line connecting Madrid to the southern Andalusia region, regional authorities said.
Chinese motorcycle manufacturer ZXMOTO founder Zhang Xue rode 40.74 km across open water on a modified motorcycle, breaking the previous Guinness World Record of 31.8 km.
The Airports Corporation of Vietnam has proposed earmarking priority bus lanes on major roads linking Ho Chi Minh City with Long Thanh International Airport to reduce congestion and ensure passengers can reach in time.
Fourteen coworkers have sued a Hong Kong health inspector for HK$28.9 million (US$3.7 million), claiming he has refused to hand over their share of a Mark Six prize their office lottery pool won in September.
Three brothers convicted of leveraging their wealthy lifestyle to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison after one victim described her attack as an “eternity of terror” and the judge slammed their behavior as shameful, degenerate and monstrous.
British University Vietnam hosted an international conference featuring 43 research presentations on AI, ESG reporting and sustainable business, with more than 120 delegates from eight countries.
Indonesia and Singapore agreed Tuesday to cooperate more closely to combat the illegal burning of land that has contributed to a toxic haze that has blanketed multiple cities across Southeast Asia in recent weeks.
Palangka Raya, a city on Indonesian Borneo, is running free buses fitted with oxygen tanks to help residents choking on haze from the country's most intense forest fires in more than a decade.
A 48-year-old assistant manager at a Bangkok 7-Eleven has gone viral after a TikTok clip showed him speaking fluent English and Chinese, two of the seven languages he says he can use.
A Vietnamese man in Toronto has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his upstairs neighbor in a feud over barbecue smoke, and his wife to six years for helping dispose of the body.
China has built a network of nearly 200 national and provincial talent programs offering cash bonuses, research grants, tax breaks and other incentives to attract scientists from overseas.
The U.S. turned down nearly 1 in 4 South Korean applicants for business and tourist visas in the year to September 2025, a record high and more than four times the rate for Japanese applicants.
Seoul National University (SNU) is considering Vietnam, mainland China, Taiwan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as priority recruitment markets for its first international-only undergraduate division, opening in fall 2027.
Some travelers who meant to fly to Sydney's main airport, or even to Western Australia, landed at the new Western Sydney International Airport on Oct. 26, a day after it opened to passengers.
The APEC Convention and Exhibition Center on Vietnam's largest island Phu Quoc is 98% built, with the accompanying 4,000-seat multipurpose performance hall expected to finish by late June 2027.
More than 550 educators, mental health professionals, social workers and medical practitioners from Vietnam and abroad gathered at the Vietnam Wellbeing & Safeguarding Summit 2026 to discuss support for children and young people.
A Chinese man arrested at Hong Kong International Airport with about two kg of suspected cocaine is believed to have obtained the drugs from a person at a supermarket in Penang, Malaysian police said.
Seoul laid a 400-meter table along Jamsu Bridge for a fried chicken feast on Oct. 25, hours before the 50-year-old Han River crossing closed to cars for good.
Vietnam and Poland established a strategic partnership on Oct. 26, setting a US$6 billion two-way trade target for 2030 and agreeing to deepen defense and security ties.
Gia Lai Province in central Vietnam has sought government approval for trialing unmanned electric flying taxis near its coastal hub of Quy Nhon from October this year through the end of 2028.
Thai authorities have seized more than 2 tonnes of premium French meat at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport, saying it arrived mixed into a cargo shipment whose import permit covered only fishery products.
A South Korean court has fined a doctor of traditional Korean medicine 20 million won (US$15,100) after a 92-year-old patient being treated for back pain died of a heart muscle tear from acupuncture on the chest.
Flash floods on Monday inundated several areas of the island of Phuket in Thailand, one of the country's major tourist destinations, following heavy rainfall overnight, officials said.
More than 40,000 Vietnamese were allegedly tricked into paying VND407 billion (US$16 million) into Tatao Live, a purported AI-powered livestream shopping platform.
A 40-year-old Malaysian woman was rescued after falling into a 10m deep hole while hiking in Da Lat, Lam Dong Province, in Vietnam's Central Highlands, on Sunday, local authorities said.
The newly connected pedestrian bridge across the Saigon River draws inspiration from southern Vietnam's winding waterways and nipa palm groves, giving Ho Chi Minh City a distinctive landmark compared with those in Singapore and Bangkok.
A newly revealed sinkhole in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in central Vietnam's Quang Tri Province covers more than 2 hectares and is home to a primeval forest and wildlife.
The Tokyo District Court on Oct. 22 sentenced a former University of Tokyo professor to two years in prison, suspended for three years, for accepting entertainment at high-end clubs and adult entertainment establishments as bribes from a research partner.
Ho Chi Minh City plans high-quality public schools where students would need B1 and B2 English competency, matching or exceeding what most Vietnamese universities require of graduates.
An American tourist jumped into Tuyen Lam Lake in Da Lat of Vietnam's Central Highlands on Oct. 23 and swam out to rescue a woman struggling in the water.
A 48-year-old Hanoi man was diagnosed with grade 3 fatty liver disease after drinking two to three liters of freshly squeezed orange juice daily instead of water for an extended period.
Researchers at Mass General Brigham in Boston have built AI models that estimate a cancer patient's biological age and risk of death from a single photo of their face.
South Korea will briefly halt takeoffs and landings, ask offices and businesses to start work later and add subway trains on Nov. 19 so 551,864 test-takers can reach the national college entrance exam on time and sit it undisturbed.
Vietnam Airlines will launch daily direct flights between Da Nang and Singapore from Nov. 17, bringing the total frequency between Vietnam and Singapore to 42 round-trip flights per week.
Hope Foundation, Opella Vietnam and BW Industrial on Oct. 22 handed over 11 school sanitation facilities across six communes in Vietnam's northern mountainous province of Son La, with total funding of nearly VND3 billion (US$116,100).
Four construction packages at Long Thanh International Airport, including its passenger terminal, risk falling behind schedule because of worker shortages and slow payments, Vietnam's Ministry of Construction has warned.
Malaysian police have arrested a 16-year-old student who allegedly attacked a teacher with an axe at a private school in Kuching, Sarawak, while livestreaming on Facebook.
Lee Se-dol, the Go grandmaster who handed Google's AlphaGo its only defeat in their 2016 match, takes on manual jobs AI cannot yet do in a KBS2 reality show premiering Oct. 23.
