Hanoi's streets and sidewalks are increasingly crowded with parked cars, as only 72 of 1,690 planned public parking facilities have opened.

A Bangkok court sentenced a businessman to 1,244 years in prison on Wednesday for defrauding 311 people through a tour package investment scheme, though Thai law caps his term in this case at 20 years.

Firefighters rescued two foreign tourists trapped at a hotel in the Vietnamese hill town of Da Lat on Thursday evening after fire broke out in a sixth-floor room.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung asked the National Economics University (NEU) on Wednesday to strive for a place among the world's top 150 universities in selected fields by 2030 and the top 100 by 2035.

A father in southern China's Shenzhen has used artificial intelligence to modify his TV so that his son must answer a school question correctly every 10 minutes to keep watching.