The organisers hoped the festival will become an annual event, providing a friendly venue for Japanese people to discover Vietnamese cuisine and for the Vietnamese community to share flavours from their homeland.

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Police in the northern province of Hung Yen have uncovered an online gambling ring operating through the Net.win website, with transactions worth more than VND1 trillion (US$38.61 million) processed through bank accounts linked to the system, authorities have said.

Many people think influenza is just a bad cold, but it can be much more serious.

Korean-Vietnamese families in Đà Nẵng gathered for the Chuseok holiday, or the Korean Mid-Autumn Festival, to share Korean culture, including trying on hanboks, or traditional Korean clothing, making and eating Songpyeon rice cakes and making kites.

A new tour at Hà Nội’s Hồng Hà Theatre in the Old Quarter is giving the audience a chance to go behind the scenes and discover the language, movements and traditions of tuồng before watching a live performance.

Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, died on Monday aged 100. Her family confirmed her death after she was admitted to the National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur. The cause of death was not immediately clear. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose decades-long feud with Mahathir defined modern Malaysia’s politics, said on Monday that Siti Hasmah would be granted a state funeral. “The nation will always remember her maternal presence and cherish...

In Mù Cang Chải commune of Lào Cai rovince, cultural values are promoted through symbols associated with the landscapes and settlement of the Mông ethnic minority people.

City Developments (CDL), the Singapore property group controlled by one of the country’s wealthiest families, said it wants to invest S$5 billion (US$3.9 billion) in Singapore, China and Japan by 2029 as part of measures to regain investor confidence after a feud within the clan. The firm also aims to sell S$6 billion of assets within the same period either via outright divestments or seeding suitable assets into managed vehicles, according to an exchange filing on Monday. It wants to set up a...

Son Mokhzani confirms her passing.