Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, have pledged US$1 billion to the University of Oregon to create an engineering college, the largest known gift to a U.S. public flagship university.
Thousands of Bangkok residents awoke in shelters on Sunday after flooding triggered by days of heavy rain in the Thai capital inundated homes and roads, with some starting to dry out their homes and belongings.
A California surrogacy agency serving wealthy Chinese parents is under scrutiny after a surrogate learned that her baby is intended for a Chinese billionaire reported to have more than 100 U.S.-born children.
A rescued spotted seal named Nana swam about 200 km back to Dachangshan Island in China's Liaoning Province within six days of being released far from humans, and local officials have agreed to let him stay.
Fraudsters using AI to impersonate senior executives stole €95 million (US$108 million) from Fideuram, the private banking arm of Italy's biggest lender Intesa Sanpaolo, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
California State University San Marcos has increased police patrols and overnight security after four sexual assaults and one case of sexual violence were reported in on-campus housing since the start of the fall semester.
A 100-year-old insurance agent in South Korea still reports to her branch office every day and signs new contracts, 43 years after joining the company.
At least three Gogoro battery-swap stations have been installed in Ho Chi Minh City over the past week as the Taiwanese company prepares to sell electric scooters in Vietnam.
A new container shipping route connecting Nanning Port in China's Guangxi Province to Cai Cui Port in Can Tho, the largest city in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, via the newly opened Pinglu Canal has begun operations.
A 28-year-old Indonesian woman admitted to Singapore Management University's MBA program has apologized after her public request for strangers to fund the S$82,840 (US$64,700) degree drew accusations of entitlement.
Two Indian men riding a motorbike collided with a van on Prenn Pass connecting Da Lat in Lam Dong Province, leaving one of them dead and the other seriously injured.
Britain's Newcastle University has faced criticism for awarding a sustainability professorship to Anant Ambani, an oil billionaire's son and the owner of the scandal-hit Vantara wildlife center in India.
The University of St Andrews has reclaimed the top spot in the U.K.'s university rankings in the Good University Guide 2027 by The Times, while Imperial College London climbed three places to third and was named "University of the Year."
A suspected power bank fire broke out aboard a Da Nang-bound Air Seoul flight carrying 221 passengers as it prepared to take off from South Korea's Incheon International Airport on the night of Sept. 24.
Professors from Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and other major U.S. institutions have relocated to Canadian universities amid concerns over tightening controls and declining research funding in the U.S.
A coroner in England has ruled that severe turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight in May 2024 triggered the cardiac arrest that killed British passenger Geoff Kitchen.
Public health centers in Seoul have been reposting the same doctor vacancies for more than six months without success, as public salaries fall far behind those at private hospitals and clinics.
Indonesia is preparing infrastructure and finalizing the legal framework and procedures for the Kalimantan Corridor under the ASEAN Customs Transit System (ACTS), thereby promoting freight transport connectivity among Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei on the island of Borneo.
Vietnam and Canada have elevated ties to Strategic Partnership during a state visit to the North American nation by Party General Secretary and President To Lam.
Computer science is the most popular major among foreign students in Germany, and the Technical University of Munich enrolls more of them than any other university, federal statistics show.
Ho Chi Minh City will not ban gasoline vehicles, relying instead on free buses, wider public transport and incentives to go electric, city Party chief Tran Luu Quang told voters on Thursday.
Students who spent several years preparing for IELTS now fear losing a university admission advantage after the Ministry of Education recently proposed scrapping bonus points for language certificates from next year.
A Singaporean father who has lived in Thailand since 2012 says he has no plans to move back, arguing that his children enjoy a life there that Singapore could not give them.
An Indonesian businessman is under investigation in Singapore after allegedly exchanging 28 counterfeit S$10,000 notes at the Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) casino and returning with six more.
Ho Chi Minh City plans to expand its metro network by nearly 90 km with three new lines, including one connecting Tan Son Nhat airport, built at a cost of more than VND254 trillion (US$9.6 billion).
Vietnamese spent more than VND1.37 quadrillion on lottery tickets from 2013 to 2025, or nearly VND105 trillion (US$4 billion) a year, according to a Finance Ministry report.
Vietnam plans to connect its national digital identification application VNeID with the electronic identification systems of Singapore and Laos, with a view to expanding the connection to other ASEAN countries.
China Huaneng, one of the five largest state-owned electricity generation enterprises in China, is building the country's first plant that stores surplus coal power as heat in molten salt and uses it to drive a turbine with carbon dioxide instead of steam.
A Malaysian man accused of masterminding a scam and money laundering syndicate in Singapore was charged in court there on Sept. 23, a day after Malaysian police arrested him and handed him over.
VNVC and Pfizer plan to expand cooperation on vaccination and disease prevention as Vietnam develops domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity, including plans to assess production of new-generation vaccines.
A total of 664 sets of war martyrs' remains have been recovered at Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City after three months of search and excavation, according to the municipal Military High Command.
Dr. Chakriwat Vivacharawongse, the estranged third son of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, is appealing to return home from Malaysia for emergency surgery on two large brain tumors.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology topped the latest U.S. News & World Report national university rankings, ending Princeton University's 15-year reign at number one.
More than an hour of heavy rain left Le Loi and Ham Nghi streets and Bui Vien backpacker street in central Ho Chi Minh City under deep water on Wednesday afternoon, snarling traffic as office workers and foreign tourists waded through the flood.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has proposed adjustments to the planning of several facilities at Phu Quoc International Airport in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang to serve the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting 2027 (APEC 2027).
An abandoned church by Hai Ly Beach in the northern Vietnam's Ninh Binh Province, whose bell tower now stands next to the sea, has been recognized as a "climate change heritage tourism site."
Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces will face continued heavy downpours through Friday, exacerbating flood risks as the severe weather collides with rising high tides.
Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam has proposed four major orientations to steer and manage change so that competition does not turn into confrontation, differences do not lead to conflict, and scientific – technological progress does not create new divisions.
Nguyen Ngoc Thuy, who ran English language school Apax Leaders, is accused of appropriating VND7.677 trillion (US$295 million) from more than 10,000 people and bribing a business partner to fake his company's revenue.
Lu Yixin, head of chemistry at the National University of Singapore, will join China's Eastern Institute of Technology in January 2027, the second senior academic to leave Singapore for the school in six weeks.
Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam delivered a policy speech at the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) in New York on Tuesday morning (local time).
Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam received Acting U.S. Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao in New York on Tuesday morning (local time), as part of his trip to attend the High-Level General Debate of the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Taiwanese police have arrested a 43-year-old man accused of strangling his Thai girlfriend and hiding her body in a suitcase inside his workplace freezer.
Hope Foundation, Long Chau pharmacy and vaccination network, and pharmaceutical partners launched the "Sharing the Burden for Cancer Patients" program on Sept. 16.
Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam has affirmed that Vietnam is ready to make greater contributions to peace, development and international cooperation, while pursuing a new development model driven by science, technology, innovation and high-quality human resources.
Authorities in the Malaysian state of Sabah have ordered an investigation into security lapses at a resort where a Chinese tourist was allegedly molested by an intruder.
OpenAI announced earlier this month that its AI had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, but a New York University mathematician says the company raced to the answer after learning of his work.
The Living Exhibition opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Sept. 21, featuring more than 25 projects by over 75 artists, photographers and designers from Vietnam and more than 20 other countries.
