HANOI -- Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned and has had his memberships at the Politburo and the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam removed, the Vietnam News Agency reported on Tuesday.

He made the decision out of his personal wish, which was announced at a meeting of the Central Committee of the CPV's meeting held on Tuesday, the official news agency said. (Vietnam-President-Resignation)

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BANGKOK -- An oil tanker explosion in central Thailand's Samut Songkhram province killed at least three people on Tuesday, the marine department of the Transport Ministry said.

The explosion occurred at around 9:15 a.m. local time when the tanker docked at a shipyard on the Mae Klong River in Muang district exploded and caused a fire. (Thailand-Oil Tanker-Explosion)

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KATHMANDU -- With the second body recovered at the crash site of a Nepali passenger plane in central Nepal on Tuesday, 71 bodies had been found with the last missing victim remains to be confirmed, an official said.

"We have found one more body in the Seti River," Guru Datta Dhakal, assistant chief district officer of the Kaski district where the ATR-72 aircraft crashed, told Xinhua. "So the total number of bodies recovered has reached 71." (Nepal-Plane Crash-Bodies)

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NEW DELHI -- India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Tuesday that the party chief Jagat Prakash Nadda will continue to head the party until June next year.

The announcement was made by BJP's senior strategist Amit Shah on the second day of the national executive meeting of BJP. (India-BJP-Chief)

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HONG KONG -- John Lee, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), met on Tuesday with Zheng Yanxiong, new director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the HKSAR and national security adviser to the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the HKSAR, expressing confidence in their cooperation in future.

Lee extended a warm welcome to Zheng on his assumption of the new posts. (Hong Kong-Chief Executive-Meeting) Enditem

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