🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Sep 5, 2026
Thailand moves to tighten data center rules
Thailand said Friday it would introduce clearer rules on AI data centers and urged almost 50 sites currently under construction to hold the projects until then.
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🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Sep 5, 2026
Malaysia declares emergency in Sarawak's Serian District due to haze
Malaysia declared an emergency in Sarawak state's Serian District after thick haze caused by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia pushed air pollution up to hazardous levels on Friday.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Sep 4, 2026
New Zealand approves use of party drug MDMA to treat trauma
Two psychiatrists in New Zealand won approval Friday to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to sufferers of severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Sep 4, 2026
South Korean police seek indictment of Bang Si-Hyuk, K-pop mogul behind BTS
South Korean police are pushing for an indictment of music tycoon Bang Si-Hyuk, the chairperson of the agency behind K-pop supergroup BTS, over alleged investor fraud.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Travel•Sep 3, 2026
AirAsia launches first codeshare with Turkey's Pegasus Airlines
Malaysia's AirAsia has entered into its first codeshare partnership with Turkish low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines, opening up connections between Southeast Asia and Europe via Istanbul.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Economy•Sep 3, 2026
Dutch shift 86 tons of gold from US, Canada to UK
The Dutch central bank said Wednesday it had moved 86 tonnes of its gold reserves out of the United States and Canada to London, citing "increasing geopolitical unrest."
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Politics•Sep 2, 2026
US aircraft carrier arrives in Thailand after 286 days at sea
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln steamed into Thailand's Laem Chabang on Wednesday after 286 days at sea, including a lengthy deployment in the Middle East, amid reports of mental health concerns and deteriorating conditions on board.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Sep 2, 2026
India busts firm faking expiry dates, nutrition labels on PepsiCo, Nestle food exports
Indian authorities have raided an illegal operation in Mumbai that faked expiry dates and nutritional information on original food products manufactured by PepsiCo, Nestle, Coca-Cola and Unilever so they could be exported to other countries.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Economy•Sep 1, 2026
EU suspends Brazilian meat imports over antibiotic compliance concerns
The European Union will suspend imports of Brazilian meat and other animal products from Thursday, citing concerns over Brazil’s compliance with EU rules on antibiotic use in livestock.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Sep 1, 2026
Japan to relax overtime regulation under workaholic PM
Japan will ease overtime regulation starting Tuesday in a move meant to help spur economic growth but criticised as a relapse into the country's ingrained workaholic culture.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 31, 2026
About 15 people missing after Grand Canyon flash flood
About 15 people may be missing after a flash flood in Grand Canyon National Park, the National Park Service said in a statement Sunday.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 31, 2026
Nepal warns of possible fresh flooding as communities grapple with devastation
Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 30, 2026
The missing in Nepal-Tibet flash floods
More than 3,000 people were listed as missing Sunday, with another 750 confirmed dead, after the flash floods and landslides that hit the Nepal-Tibet border.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 29, 2026
More than 2,400 missing in deadly Nepal, China floods
The number of people missing in Nepal and China surpassed 2,400 Friday, days after a tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept away villages and killed hundreds.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 29, 2026
Bird flu detected in dead dolphin in South Australia
H5N1 bird flu has been detected in a dead dolphin in South Australia, officials in the state said Friday, the first case of its kind in the country.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 28, 2026
Japan to survey animal cafes over hygiene, welfare concerns
Japan plans to probe popular animal cafes, where visitors can interact with anything from cats to capybaras, following concerns about hygiene and the creatures' welfare, authorities said Thursday.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 28, 2026
Death toll nears 400, rescuers search for 1,400 missing after Nepal-Tibet floods
Rescue teams waded through mud on Thursday searching for more than 1,400 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck the Nepal-Tibet border, as the death toll rose again to 392, with entire villages swept away.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 27, 2026
Nepal-Tibet disaster: what we know
Catastrophic flooding and landslides on the Nepal-Tibet border unleashed waves of water and debris that have killed at least 160 people and left hundreds more missing.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 26, 2026
China joins India search for 22 missing after cargo ship sinks
Chinese authorities were assisting India's search for 22 crew members missing after a Panama-flagged cargo vessel sank in the Bay of Bengal last week, the Indian Coast Guard said.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 26, 2026
Australia's music industry bans AI-generated tracks from official charts
Australia’s recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists’ livelihoods, a representative said on Tuesday.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 25, 2026
Indonesian police arrest 72 people suspected of starting forest fires
Indonesian authorities have arrested 72 people suspected of starting some of the forest and peatland fires as huge blazes in central and west Indonesia triggered choking haze.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 25, 2026
Southeast Asia's largest economy to open airspace for cloud seeding to tackle haze
Indonesia, the largest economy in Southeast Asia, has given Malaysian agencies official permission to enter its airspace to conduct cloud seeding operations, Malaysia's environment minister said on Monday, part of both countries' efforts to combat the haze blanketing the region.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Economy•Aug 24, 2026
Fast fashion giant Shein valued at up to $27B in Hong Kong IPO
Online fast-fashion retailer Shein's valuation has dropped by around 70% from a near $100 billion private market peak four years ago, as it aims to raise up to HK$13.86 billion ($1.77 billion) in its Hong Kong IPO launched on Monday.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 24, 2026
Indian rescuers search for 22 people missing after cargo ship sinks
India's coastguard and navy continued search-and-rescue operations off the eastern coast on Sunday after a Panama-flagged bulk carrier carrying 24 crew members sank, with two Chinese nationals rescued, a senior official said.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 23, 2026
Indonesia deploys 1,500 additional soldiers to tackle Borneo fires
Indonesia is deploying an additional 1,500 soldiers to Borneo to help tackle wildfires that have burned through swathes of the island and created thick smog choking some areas.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 22, 2026
Tesla, other automakers begin record vehicle recall in China over door safety
Tesla and eight other automakers will recall a total of about 4.3 million vehicles in China over concerns that doors may be difficult to open in an emergency, marking the country's largest automotive recall.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 22, 2026
Japan axes Netflix collaboration after outcry over dating show
Japan's justice ministry said Friday it will cancel a collaboration with a controversial Netflix dating show featuring ex-juvenile delinquents, following backlash against what some called the glorification of crimes.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Economy•Aug 21, 2026
Panama Canal to reduce shipping over El Nino-fueled drought
The Panama Canal will cut the number of ships passing through it starting next month because of drought caused by the El Nino phenomenon, the operator of the strategic waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific said Thursday.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 21, 2026
Express train hits and kills 4 workers at a railway station in Japan
An express train entering a station in Japan hit and killed four people who were doing weed control work on a railway track Thursday, officials said.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Economy•Aug 20, 2026
World's largest economy's national debt exceeds $40 trillion for first time
The U.S. gross national debt has surged past US$40 trillion for the first time, government data showed Wednesday, outstripping earlier forecasts at a pace fuelled in part by President Donald Trump's invalidated tariffs.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 19, 2026
Student kills schoolmate and himself in livestreamed Philippine school attack, official says
A high school student carrying two pistols shot to death a fellow student before killing himself Tuesday in an attack in a southern Philippine high school campus that he livestreamed using a body-worn camera, police and other officials said.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 19, 2026
Fear grips children after deadly earthquake in eastern Indonesia leaves thousands displaced
Thousands of people remained displaced on the Indonesian island of Flores on Tuesday, three days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 70 people, injured nearly 1,200 others and damaged thousands of homes.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 18, 2026
South Korea landslide kills one as heavy rains sweep southern areas
A landslide in South Korea killed one person and injured three, media reports said on Monday, as heavy rainfall lashed the country's southern region.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 18, 2026
Indonesian mother 'grateful' after emergency birth during 7.7-magnitude quake
As the earth shook around her, tearing apart homes, buildings, and bridges in eastern Indonesia, Maria Florida Nogo Kelen was giving birth to her daughter.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 17, 2026
Crypto wallet provider SafePal discloses data breach affecting nearly 40,000 users' order information
Cryptocurrency wallet provider SafePal on Sunday disclosed a data breach that involved unauthorized access to about 39,798 customers' order information, including personal details such as names, addresses and purchase data.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Politics•Aug 16, 2026
Xi calls for improving disaster prevention as floods, landslides batter world's 2nd largest economy
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for improving the country’s ability to prevent, mitigate and respond to natural disasters, after a string of deadly floods and landslides in the summer of 2026.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 15, 2026
Rescuers search for survivors as Indonesian quake death toll rises to 47
Rescuers combed through debris for survivors on Saturday after a powerful earthquake struck off Indonesia's eastern Flores island, killing at least 47 people, according to disaster officials.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 15, 2026
Singapore criminalizes AI-generated explicit images
Singapore authorities prepare to enforce legislation that goes into effect on Monday, protecting citizens from online abuse including banning the use of artificial intelligence to create explicit images without consent.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 14, 2026
Heavy rain causes flooding near Tokyo that kills 4 and disrupts train and air travel
Record-breaking rainfall that pounded cities east of Tokyo overnight flooded roads and dozens of homes, stranded thousands of people, caused power outages and left at least four people dead and one missing.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 13, 2026
Outflanked by AI, stars fade for South Korea's blind fortune-tellers
Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 12, 2026
Schools closed as Indonesia battles wildfires
Dozens of Indonesian schools were shuttered for a second day Tuesday to protect against the spreading haze from wildfires at the start of a long and intense dry season worsened by El Nino.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 12, 2026
China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme weather intensifies
As meteorologists tracked Typhoon Dolphin's path toward China in recent days, a new generation of artificial intelligence weather models worked alongside traditional forecasting systems, highlighting China's emergence as a leading player in the race to improve weather predictio
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 10, 2026
Apple tests China's CXMT memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks
Apple has been testing memory chips from China's CXMT across product lines including iPhones and MacBooks to mitigate a component shortage fueled by the AI boom.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 10, 2026
Days of heavy rain leave at least 16 dead in Philippines
Floods, landslides and accidents driven by a nine-day downpour equivalent to more than a month's worth of rain in some areas have killed at least 16 people in the northern Philippines, rescuers said on Monday.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 8, 2026
Heavy rains drench Beijing as China braces for Typhoon Dolphin
Multiple districts in Beijing issued heavy rainfall warnings on Friday evening with authorities warning residents of disasters including floods in the city center and also mudslides and landslides in agricultural and mountainous areas.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Politics•Aug 7, 2026
Trump signs order targeting 'birth tourism'
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday made another attempt to curb birthright citizenship, signing an order targeting those who he said enter the country under the guise of tourism while actually intending to give birth.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 7, 2026
India monsoon floods, landslides kill more than 100 since July: officials
Floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people across India since July, official data showed Wednesday, with thousands forced to flee their inundated homes.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 5, 2026
China draws up safety rules for autonomous vehicles
China has drawn up new safety rules for the growing number of autonomous vehicles on its roads, including a mandatory deactivation override, the government said Tuesday.
🇻🇳 Vietnam•Society•Aug 5, 2026
Heat kills 19 in South Korea this summer: government agency
South Korea's summer heat has killed 19 people so far this year, a government health agency said on Tuesday, as the nation swelters in a wave of searing weather.
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