A woman displays a piece of elephant hair in Buon Don district, Dak Lak province, Vietnam. In a village in Vietnam’s “elephant kingdom”, a vendor holds up a severed, dried tail dotted with coarse hairs she promises will bring good luck -- a grim new trade that is endangering the country’s few remaining elephants.

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In a match where India dominated possession and had as many as four clear goals scoring chances, Vikram Singh’s late strike from the spot led the Blue Colts to a deserved win over the opponents. read more

Tran Dai Quang died in a military hospital in Hanoi from a “serious illness despite efforts by domestic and international doctors and professors”, reports said. read more

The victims, all Vietnamese, tested positive for an unspecified drug prompting officials to ban all EDM festivals in the capital in the wake of the fatal incident. read more

Restaurants cook snake flesh steamed or fried with lemongrass and chilli and serve it with a rice wine mixed with snake blood. read more

With at least 30% of Delhi Metro users falling within Rs 20,000 monthly income group, a big chunk of their income is spent on travelling by the metro. read more

The Indian women’s quartet of Hima Das, M R Poovamma, Saritaben Gayakwad and Vismaya Velluva Koroth ran 3 minute and 28.72 seconds to claim the gold at Asian Games 2018. read more

She once said her son liked to hold her up as an example of “what he hopes his lifespan will be.” read more

Donald Trump and McCain did not get along. The US president’s first response to the senator’s passing was a dry tweet that addressed the late senator’s family, not the departed leader. read more

Sushma Swaraj arrived in Hanoi on Sunday on the first leg of her two-nation tour to Southeast Asia that will also see her visiting Cambodia. read more

Swaraj is in Vietnam on the first leg of her four-day two-nation tour which aims at deepening India’s strategic cooperation with Vietnam and Cambodia. read more

US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) looks on during a press conference about his resistance to the so-called “Skinny Repeal” of the Affordable Care Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, on July 27, 2017. McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran for president in 2008 as a maverick Republican and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday. He was 81.

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Esports kicked off its Asian Games 2018 journey as a demonstration sport at a glittering ceremony with over 150 athletes — including nine from India — from 18 different countries, tussling for supremacy in an electrifying atmosphere. read more

In Vietnam, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj will co-chair the 16th meeting of the joint commission, along with the country’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister Pham Binh Minh. read more

After Vietnam, India had the second highest number of teams who had qualified for the main event post the regional qualifiers along with Hong Kong. read more