South Korea to halt flights, delay work hours for 25-minute English test

Company ownership, no-tender partnership with highway authority raise questions.

The newly connected pedestrian bridge across the Saigon River draws inspiration from southern Vietnam's winding waterways and nipa palm groves, giving Ho Chi Minh City a distinctive landmark compared with those in Singapore and Bangkok.

Three foreign men who planned nighttime burglaries of landed homes in Singapore, stealing valuables worth S$644,700 ($504,500) from one house, were jailed on Oct. 22.

Phạm Bích Hạnh, general director and CEO of Phúc Hưng Thịnh Co. and Quán Ăn Ngon chain, said the awards are great motivation for the brand to continue preserving and introducing special values of Vietnamese cuisine to local and foreign diners.

The organising committee introduced the most typical aspects of the Chinese destinations such as their world heritages of Forbidden City, Great Wall and Temple of Heaven, landscape, traditional tea ceremony, paper cutting craft as well as their most advanced technologies AI products.

Authorities in the Philippines are investigating Thomas Markle, father of Meghan, the ⁠wife of Britain’s Prince ⁠Harry, the Philippine justice undersecretary said ⁠on Friday, after allegations he possessed child sexual abuse images. “Our Anti-Trafficking and Anti-OSAEC (online sexual abuse and exploitation of children) task force in Cebu is currently investigating the matter,” Nicholas Ty, Philippine justice undersecretary, said. Thomas Markle could not be immediately reached for comment but he...

Fatimah Zainal had already paid for her flights and accommodation when videos of the unrest in France made her jittery about the Paris leg of her European holiday. “The videos definitely made me panic,” said Fatimah, who plans to visit the French capital solo from October 31 to November 3 after travelling through Belgium. The press officer for an international organisation said the Malaysian government’s travel advisory gave her second thoughts, and changing her flight would cost up to an...

Indonesia’s warnings of curbing energy exports to countries it deems disrespectful amid regional tensions have put Singapore and other Southeast Asian buyers on notice, exposing the risks of relying on a neighbour increasingly protective of its resources. But analysts see little chance of Jakarta following through on the threat, given its own economic interests and the mutual benefits of regional energy cooperation, including the long-planned Asean Power Grid. On Thursday, Coordinating Minister...

Large foreign tour groups are canceling Đà Nẵng trips over storm and flood fears, officials say, leaving UNESCO-listed Hội An unusually quiet.

Held as part of the Hành Thiện Keo Pagoda Festival, the standing boat race honours a centuries-old tradition, bringing together villagers, rowers and visitors in a celebration of faith and community.

The Philippine government put a bounty on Friday on the head of the top enforcer of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody anti-drug crackdown, nearly a year after the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered his arrest. Former Philippine police chief and sitting Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa had mostly been in hiding for months before The Hague-based tribunal unsealed the November 2025 arrest warrant against him in May and put him into flight. The bounty comes just over a month before...

The province has 115 traditional craft villages employing more than 41,000 workers. Alongside preserving traditional skills and cultural values, they provide important livelihoods for rural communities.