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Ho Chi Minh City Police are on the hunt for a man who stole 2,500 pairs of luxury shoes en route to South Korea. Police reported Thursday they were looking for a man whose false identity is 30-year-old Nguyen Tan Hung for absconding with the footwear worth over VND1.5 billion …

Vietnam’s 4,700 compromised ChatGPT accounts make up the fourth highest total in world, according to a cybersecurity firm. Group-IB, a “global threat-hunting and adversary-centric” cyber intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, announced Tuesday that it had “identified 101,134 stealer-infected devices with saved ChatGPT credentials” over the past year. The company said …

Former deputy foreign minister To Anh Dung will go on trial July 11 for allegedly receiving VND21.5 billion ($914,000) in bribes to arrange Covid-19 repatriation flights. Dung and 53 other accomplices are expected to stand trial for a month, the Hanoi People’s Court has announced. Dung, 59, former Deputy Minister …

The USS Ronald Reagan will visit Da Nang for friendly exchange activities starting June 25, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang told a press conference that the visit would last from June 25 to June 30. “Recently, Vietnam has received visits …

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on Thursday said Vietnam will try its best within its conditions and capabilities to help Cuba overcome difficulties that the country is facing. Receiving Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba Álvaro López Miera in Hanoi, the Vietnamese Party leader highly appreciated the …

The armed group that attacked two government headquarters in Dak Lak Province earlier this month has connections with terrorists based in the U.S., the homeland security department says. Major General Pham Ngoc Viet, head of the Department of Homeland Security at the Ministry of Public Security, said on Tuesday that …

Vietnam recognizes the more positive assessment made in the 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report by the U.S. Department of State, and is ready for cooperation in the field, the Foreign Ministry said. The ministry’s spokeswoman Pham Thu Hang said Thursday Vietnam hopes the two sides will continue cooperating closely so …

Four Thai nationals will face charges in a Malaysian court on Friday over the 2015 discovery of mass graves and suspected human trafficking camps at the country’s border with Thailand, Malaysia’s home affairs minister said. The dense forests of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia have been a major stop-off point …

Parents of a Vietnamese girl raped and murdered in Japan in 2017 have opened a restaurant to fulfill her wish of connecting the two countries. On June 19, Le Thi Nhat Linh’s parents opened a restaurant serving Vietnamese food in Nihonmatsu, a city in Fukushima Prefecture. In March 2017, the …

A Vietnamese man in Japan has been arrested for burying his newborn near a river after his wife prematurely gave birth in a toilet. Nguyen Long Thai, 34, on Wednesday told the police of Yorii Town in Saitama Prefecture that his wife was in a critical condition, Japanese media reported. …