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A huge fire drill with over 4,000 personnel will be carried out at Ho Chi Minh City’s Ben Thanh underground metro station on Saturday. The simulation will also involve over 150 specialized vehicles, Lieutenant Colonel Le Manh Ha, deputy head of staff at the HCMC Police Department, said at a …

The family of a girl killed when a military officer hit her with his car has appealed the 14-month jail sentence for the former major, saying it was “too light.” The deceased girl’s father, Ho Hoang Hung, on Thursday said he filed the appeal regarding the sentence given out by …

The Montreal-based company that owns Pornhub will not face charges over links to a sex trafficking operation but has agreed to pay $1.8 million to the U.S. government and make payments to victims, officials said Thursday. Aylo Holdings, the parent company of Pornhub, has entered into what is known as …

Action star Vin Diesel has been accused of sexually assaulting his assistant in an Atlanta hotel room over a decade ago, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday. The suit is the latest claim to be lodged with courts in California, which has extended the length of time in which legal …

A 24-year-old student killed 14 people and wounded 25 at a Prague university on Thursday in the Czech Republic’s worst shooting in decades, before authorities said the attacker was “eliminated”. The violence in the city’s historic center sparked evacuations, a massive response by heavily armed police and warnings for people …

A woman in the Mekong Delta’s Dong Thap Province placed her newborn son in a box she let float down a river after a fight with her husband, police said. Nguyen Thi Thuy, 23, was detained by Dong Thap police on Wednesday to be investigated for murdering her newborn child. …

Vietnam’s deputy trade minister was arrested for alleged violations regarding an ongoing case of bribery, power abuse and mismanagement of state assets involving an oil trading company. Do Thang Hai, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, has been detained by investigators of the Ministry of Public Security to be investigated …

Russia has handed out more than $12 billion in state subsidies and loans to keep its aviation sector afloat since Western sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine cut off supplies of key parts and maintenance services, a Reuters analysis shows. The logo of Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot is seen on …

It is in 2023 that AI stopped being a niche field and became a household name that served millions of Vietnamese. OpenAI announced ChatGPT, a generative AI based on a large language model, in late 2022 and made its name early this year. Soon afterwards several other tech giants released …

A man refused to pull over at a police checkpoint and instead roamed into an officer, causing him a broken leg in the central Nghe An Province. Police in Nghe An’s Hung Nguyen District on Wednesday announced to probe into To Ba Hoai Nam, 18, for “intentionally causing injuries.” To …