Vietnam's average temperature in October was 26.3 degrees Celsius, 1.74 degrees above the long-term average and the highest since records came to be maintained in 1961.
Tarps and metal roofing are encroaching on the yin-yang tiled roofs and open-air lightwells of Hoi An's old houses, spoiling the heritage landscape of the UNESCO-listed town in central Vietnam.
Used smartphones, computers and many other digital devices will remain barred from import into Vietnam under an updated list of banned goods that takes effect on Jan. 1, 2027.
A Singaporean man has been jailed in Australia for five years and nine months for manslaughter after he drove over and killed a man who stole a backpack from his rental car.
Authorities in New Mexico have filed murder and other charges against the mother of a 10-year-old boy who fatally shot a teenage neighbor in a dispute over loud music.
The U.K. will increase the minimum maintenance funds international students must demonstrate for visa applications starting Nov. 30, with the maximum requirement rising by £369 (US$493).
Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi's remains were stored in two pots and a refrigerator after her body was dismembered in a village flat in 2023, the city's High Court has heard.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's passport details and those of some of his staff were leaked online in a file posted in June on a paid website, the South Korean broadcaster KBS reported on Monday.
Singapore's Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is investigating about 45 companies involved in Changi Airport operations over suspected work pass offenses after an inspection found holders of passes meant for foreign professionals handling baggage.
An Audemars Piguet watch worth about 46 million yen (US$291,300) that a man tried on and ran off with at a Tokyo shop has been returned by courier with a handwritten apology.
Vietnamese recruitment firms that once had seven or eight applicants for every Japan job order now send staff into villages and still find it hard to fill their quotas.
Thai police have arrested the director of a Bangkok company behind a website called Taobao Thailand over an unlicensed yuan exchange and payment service for people buying goods from China.
Officers at Singapore Changi Airport found 5,272 vaporizers and related components in the luggage of four arriving foreign travelers last week, the largest haul from four days of stepped-up checks at the country's checkpoints.
Hanoi will provide a one-off payment of VND4 million (US$154) to women who give birth to two children before the age of 35 from next year, under a policy aimed to boost the city's birth rate.
Malaysia Airlines said Sunday that some customer information may have been compromised in a cybersecurity incident involving Amadeus, a global travel technology provider based in Spain whose systems support airline reservations and passenger services.
A business jet carrying nine people nose-dived into a South Florida neighborhood Sunday and erupted into a giant fireball that appeared to just miss homes near a busy roadway. Everyone on board was killed, the nation's transportation secretary said.
A Vietnam Airlines flight from HCMC to Munich, Germany, diverted to Islamabad International Airport in Pakistan after a German male passenger suffered a seizure.
Around 100 architectural drawings and photographs documenting more than four years of design and construction of the Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City are on display to mark the 60th anniversary of its inauguration on Oct. 31, 1966.
After dropping out of medical school in France and isolating herself for seven months while struggling with depression, a Moroccan girl turned to Vietnam as a way out of her difficulties and went on to graduate as the top student in maritime navigation.
Malaysia’s latest haze crisis is estimated to have caused RM8 billion (US$1.97 billion) in welfare losses and may have contributed to approximately 1,700 premature deaths, according to a newly released report.
King's College Wimbledon Ho Chi Minh City has completed the main structure of its campus at The Global City, with construction scheduled to finish in the second quarter of 2027.
Long Thanh International Airport is expected to open to commercial flights at midnight on Dec. 24, initially handling up to 366 flights a week, 322 of them domestic and 44 international.
The city state of Singapore ranks third globally for quality of life in the 2026 Global Cities Index by Oxford Economics, a U.K.-based independent economic research and consulting firm.
A 26-year-old Chinese man who quit school at 14 has flown a homemade electric board inspired by the Green Goblin's glider in "Spider-Man" across the Yangtze River in his home province of Hubei.
Smoke from forest and land fires across Indonesia caused an estimated 3,560 deaths in September, more than double the August figure, a Helsinki-based think tank said.
South Korea's foreign resident population climbed past 2.66 million in 2025, or more than one in 20 people in the country, as the number of international students surged.
A Russian teacher slapped two second graders and grabbed another by the neck, lifting the child out of class, during an English lesson at a private school in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.
A Hong Kong court sentenced a triad-linked teenager to eight years in prison on Oct. 29 for throwing acid on a Singaporean tourist in return for a promised HK$10,000 (US$1,270).
Thailand has stripped Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, a leader of its Jewish community, of his citizenship, saying he kept using his U.S. nationality after being naturalized.
Singapore will pilot the use of photovoltaic roof tiles at state-owned heritage buildings to expand solar power generation while preserving traditional architecture.
South Korean actor Yoon Dae-yeol shut off two gas cylinders after a restaurant explosion in Incheon, west of Seoul, preventing further damage, police said.
Hope Foundation and its partners have completed 11 school toilet facilities in Song Ma, Son La Province, replacing makeshift facilities used for more than 20 years.
A twisting tower will rise among elevated roadways, interspersed with ponds and green spaces, in a proposed interchange connecting Ho Chi Minh City's major seaports, industrial areas and regional transport corridors.
A Vietnamese company's director has been accused of designing unsafe pool suction outlets that led to an 11-year-old Japanese boy's death at the five-star Centara Mirage Resort Mui Ne in 2022.
Dartmouth College Provost Santiago Schnell resigned Wednesday after a faculty-led investigation concluded he used artificial intelligence (AI) to substantially alter his published writing, violating university and publisher integrity standards.
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.
