A group of 10 workers at Yen Bai Cement Factory, part of Yen Bai Cement and Minerals JSC, was performing maintenance on a rotary kiln on Monday when a motor engine malfunction occurred, resulting in seven deaths.
More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area on Tuesday.
Gen Z makes up an increasingly dominant share of Vietnam's workforce, but their reluctance to work industrial jobs has worsened the crisis in finding replacement laborers amid desperately high unemployment.
The hull of Hang Chau Tourist Express Boat, which was broadsided by a ferry recently, has a 10 m gash on one side and its windows and seats are shattered.
Hong Kong on Monday started phasing in a ban on disposable plastic products across restaurants and businesses, setting a six-month deadline for the city to eliminate plastic cutlery and other materials before risking fines.
To secure scholarships of at least 50% from Australian universities, students would need academic record scores of up to 9.9/10 besides extra requirements, admission officers said.
The number of Covid infections in Thailand has increased after Songkran celebrations as the JN.1 strain remains dominant in the country, according to the Department of Disease Control (DDC) of Thailand.
Seven workers were killed and three injured at a cement factory in the northern province of Yen Bai, when a rotary kiln unexpectedly restarted during maintenance on Monday.
Three people are dead and 11 others missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of thousands evacuated away from the torrential downpours.
Pham Thai Ha, assistant to Vietnam's National Assembly chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, has been arrested on charges of abusing position and power for personal gains.
All visitors entering or leaving Singapore with more than S$20,000 (US$14,700) in cash will be allowed to make online declarations starting from May 13, instead of the current hard copy declaration forms.
Thunderstorms and hail may occur in many places in the north over the next three days, after which temperatures will gradually rise, and heat will cover the entire region.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked ministries and localities to ensure sufficient power supply for production and daily activities under any circumstances.
The Hang Chau Tourist Express Boat that collided with a ferry on the Tien River Friday was trying to pass as several barges blocked its point of view, said the Hang Chau’s owner.
Thuan An Corporation has announced it will resume renovating the Tham Luong – Ben Cat– Nuoc Len canal, Ho Chi Minh City's longest, following the arrest of its chairman.
A teenager from England has been rescued after getting lost for eight hours in Lau Chai Province national park, home to Mount Fansipan, Inchochina's tallest, in Vietnam's remote northern borderlands.
Media firm WPP Media Limited has been punished by the Ministry of Information and Communications for various advertising violations, with one involving the illegal U-shaped line.
Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung received an official reprimand from the Communist Party's Politburo Friday for violating the law and the Party's principles.
Two foreign tourists and a Vietnamese tour guide were injured after a ferry broadsided a boat carrying 42 passengers on the Tien River in the Mekong Delta Friday evening.