Recent graduates with degrees in English, arts, and humanities are proving to be the most adaptable in a challenging U.S. job market, according to a recent analysis by Forbes based on LinkedIn employment data.
Major Japanese media outlets have highlighted the bravery of five Vietnamese workers who rescued a 90-year-old woman from a collapsed house following the Kumamoto earthquake, praising their quick action and the solidarity shown by the Vietnamese community in Japan.
A man who spent two years working night shifts as a security guard at Tsinghua University was admitted to the school as a postgraduate student on his eighth attempt at China's national postgraduate entrance exam.
A debate has broken out in China over which country deserves credit for producing Hong Wang, who on July 23 became the third woman to win the Fields Medal, the world's most prestigious mathematics award.
Doctors at Viet Duc University Hospital have carried out Vietnam's first penis transplant from a brain-dead donor, marking an advance in the country's reconstructive surgery and highlighting growing capabilities in complex transplant procedures.
A Malaysian pilot who tested positive for meth, MDMA and cocaine after flying a passenger plane to Indonesia risks the death penalty for allegedly smuggling more than 70,000 ecstasy tablets in his suitcase, officials said Friday.
After nearly a year of restoration, the once-polluted Da Do Canal alongside Metro Line 1 has been transformed, improving drainage and enhancing the urban landscape.
China has completed excavating a tunnel beneath the Yangtze River, the country's largest waterway, marking a major milestone for a project that will connect Shanghai's Chongming Island with neighboring Jiangsu Province and expand the national high-speed rail network.
International students who want to remain in the United States after graduation to work could face a US$100,000 fee under immigration tightening measures.
A Los Angeles endocrinologist has joined China's Westlake University as the first U.S.-licensed physician on its medical school faculty, the university said.
One month after Ho Chi Minh City introduced free bus travel, bus ridership has surged by 39%, while metro passenger numbers have also increased by around 15% year-on-year.
A 51-year-old hotel receptionist in Nha Trang is facing charges after allegedly renting a motorbike to an intoxicated Russian tourist who subsequently struck and killed a pedestrian.
A Vietnamese student won the world Microsoft Excel title and an US$8,000 prize at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship in California on July 29.
The USS George Washington, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier named for America's first president, docked at Tien Sa Port on July 30 for a week-long goodwill visit to Da Nang packed with cultural exchanges and community events.
Twenty-five cats stuck inside a shopping mall in Japan gutted in an explosion after a major earthquake have been rescued, the operator said Thursday, triggering huge relief on social media.
Search teams have recovered the remains of 150 fallen soldiers at Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City since the excavation began on June 23, according to the Ho Chi Minh City High Command.
A Chinese student has won a place at Tsinghua University's nuclear engineering program with a score of 694 out of the maximum 750, and says she got there without ever enrolling in a paid tutoring class.
A super typhoon spinning near Wake Island, more than 6,000 km from Vietnam, is expected to whip up strong winds and high waves across the East Sea next week without entering it.
Four men were charged in a Singapore court on July 29 for allegedly selling foreigners access to a doctored version of the foodpanda app that let them bypass identity checks and work illegally as delivery riders.
A French student was fined 600 Singapore dollars (US$465) after pleading guilty Thursday to a public nuisance charge in Singapore for filming himself licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and putting it back in what lawyers described as a social media stunt.
A Harvard-educated former managing director at Citigroup Inc. who blamed autism for his actions was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for sex crimes that prosecutors say occurred over a 10-year period.
After two F-1 visa rejections, an Indian student eventually reached the United States, joined Tesla, began a Ph.D. program, and now advises applicants to strengthen their profiles.
Vietnam's aviation regulator has approved a three-stage plan to move almost all of Ho Chi Minh City's international flights to Long Thanh by March 2028.
Foreigners in Thailand cannot legally work in occupations reserved exclusively for Thai citizens, regardless of whether they hold valid visas and work permits.
Vietnam's Government Inspectorate has uncovered multiple violations in the ongoing construction of Long Thanh International Airport, including illegal subcontracting worth more than VND3.2 trillion (US$121.6 million) and breaches by project manager Airports Corporation of Vietnam.
A Singapore man found his dead dachshund in a rubbish bin beneath his apartment block minutes after paying a pet cremation company S$180 (US$139) to collect her.
Artificial intelligence is triggering a foundational crisis in mathematics by shifting the field from a shortage of proofs to an overwhelming abundance of them, according to 2006 Fields Medal winner Terence Tao.
Japanese women remained the world's longest-living population for the 41st year in a row last year, followed by South Korean women, according to data released recently by the Japanese government.
A Chinese national and three Thai accomplices have been arrested for allegedly stealing more than 29 million baht (US$896,000) from over 1,200 Chinese tourists.
One male Vietnamese worker has been killed following a powerful earthquake that struck Japan's Kumamoto prefecture on July 28, killing at least 13, according to the labor management board under the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan.
Singapore authorities said Monday they had arrested three teenagers over separate plots to carry out shooting, stabbing and bomb attacks, warning of the threat of "youth radicalization" in the security-conscious city-state.
The first calibration flight on the second runway at Phu Quoc International Airport was completed successfully on July 27 despite heavy rain and reduced visibility, marking a key milestone in the airport's expansion project ahead of APEC 2027.
Immigration officers deported three foreigners from Bali this month after finding two teaching yoga at a villa and a third installing factory machinery, all on permits that allow only tourism.
China's naval hospital ship Auspicious Ark has set sail from Qingdao on its first overseas humanitarian mission, beginning a marathon medical deployment across Africa and South Asia.
The Trump administration wants soldiers to consider becoming truck drivers when they leave the military to help replace the tens of thousands of immigrant drivers who lost their licenses in a crackdown this year.
A major earthquake that severely damaged a shopping mall and a factory in Japan killed at least 13 people, offficials said Wednesday, as rescuers desperately tried to reach survivors feared trapped in the wreckage.
Dozens of people were feared trapped in a shopping mall in Japan on Tuesday after a major earthquake toppled buildings, sparked fires and reportedly killed one person and injured more than 100.
All three pilots operating a British Airways flight from Hyderabad in India to London fell ill with suspected food poisoning, but two of them managed to fly the aircraft to its destination safely.
Indonesia has barred two Dutch nationals from re-entering the country after immigration authorities identified them as the organizers of a Bali running community accused of rejecting Indonesian applicants.
A U.S. jury has awarded US$17 million to a woman whose surgeon removed nearly all of her healthy bladder during what was meant to be a routine operation to take out an ovarian cyst.
Indonesian authorities have arrested former Deputy Attorney General for Corruption Crimes Febrie Adriansyah after seizing about US$19 million in cash and 74 kilogrammes of gold bars during raids on his residence and several other properties.
The Hanoi People's Committee has directed relevant departments and agencies to urgently implement the national roadmap for motorcycle and moped emissions testing while developing financial support for low-income residents to replace aging vehicles that fail to meet emission standards.
Ho Chi Minh City plans to build two underground stations on the Tan Son Nhat–Phu Huu metro line to connect all of Tan Son Nhat airport's three terminals, and link the line with other metro routes to create a major interchange.
Nguyen Tuong Anh built her university application essay out of classical Chinese poems, and the 18-year-old from Hanoi won a place at Tsinghua University along with a full Chinese government scholarship to Beijing Normal University.
While Europe accounts for more than half of the world's 10 best cities for international students, the top two positions are held by Asian destinations.
A 21-year-old Australian woman was arrested at Changi Airport this month over the alleged theft of a box of perfume worth S$312.80 (US$242) from a duty-free shop in Terminal 1 five weeks earlier.
A Chinese university is looking into reports that a gene-editing trial caused the death of a six-year-old girl, which was not disclosed in the published research, the school said on Sunday.
Vietnam's Politburo wants Dong Nai City, the southern manufacturing base that hosts the new Long Thanh international airport, to become an Asia-Pacific aviation hub with a US$150 billion economy by 2045.
Can foreigners who commit crimes in Vietnam be tried in their home countries instead? A legal expert explains how Vietnamese law applies in such cases.
British cave explorers continue to uncover new geological wonders beneath Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, more than three decades after their first expedition to Vietnam.
