China launches direct shipping route to Mekong Delta's largest city via new river-to-sea canal

At a zoo a short drive south of Bangkok, Charoon Youngprapakorn has spent a lifetime taking the pulse of Thailand’s tourism industry from an unlikely vantage point: the open jaws of crocodiles. Handlers at his Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm & Zoo have long thrilled onlookers by coaxing tips from the audience and carefully placing the money into the mouths of animals capable of taking off an entire hand. The crocodiles at this open-air, fan-cooled throwback to 1980s showmanship still take their tips...

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."

Questions remain over how prison-like curbs can be practically imposed on ex-premier at home.

Singapore has become a super-aged society, with 21.4% of its citizens aged 65 and older, according to a government report released Friday.

Singapore has become a super-aged society, with 21.4% of its citizens aged 65 and older, according to a government report released Friday.

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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.

The good news is, when US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Washington this week, neither chose confrontation. Amid the high pomp and ceremony, what China has called “constructive strategic stability” continues. Even an uneasy truce in great power relations can be useful. Both recognise the considerable incentive to prevent their economic rivalry from spiralling out of control. Even limited understandings can reduce risks in artificial intelligence (AI) and other...

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.

No existing legal provision for house arrest in Malaysia, it says.

The approach also gives consumers more information about product origins, helping them identify Phúc Trạch pomelos with the proper geographical indication and traceability.

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