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Singapore-based Grab Holdings said on Thursday (May 25) that its co-founder Tan Hooi Ling will step down from her operating roles at the ride-hailing company by the end of this year. Hooi Ling, who co-founded Grab with CEO Anthony Tan in 2012, will transition into an advisory role, the company …

A Nepali climber who scaled Mount Everest for a record 28th time this week, the most by any mountaineer, said on Thursday he had no immediate plans to hang up his climbing boots. Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, who reached the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) summit of the world’s highest mountain on Tuesday, …

Hanoi prosecutors have charged an 86-year-old man with raping a six-year-old girl. According to the investigation, on the evening of June 30 last year Duong Van Toan, who lives in Long Bien District, was on his way to chuck out the family trash when he saw a girl playing on …

Squinting in the bright light of a hot summer morning, Vu Thi Thinh perches on the edge of her small wooden boat and plucks a polystyrene block from the calm waters of Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay. It’s not yet 9 a.m., but a mound of styrofoam buoys, plastic bottles and …

The HCMC police have arrested three South Koreans, including a woman, for allegedly breaking into a villa in District 7 to steal valuables. Heo Seong Hyun, 48, Wang Lee Hyang, 66, and Gim Chang Duok, 72, were preparing to leave the country when they were arrested, the police said Thursday. …

Group of Seven (G7) nation officials will meet next week to consider problems posed by generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, Japan said on Friday. Leaders of the G7, which includes the United States, European Union and Japan, last week agreed to create an intergovernmental forum called the “Hiroshima …

China Eastern Airlines, the initial customer for the country’s homegrown narrow-body jet C919, will launch the planes first commercial flight on Sunday, the carrier’s app showed on Friday. The C919 flight will take off as flight number MU9191 at 10:45 a.m. Beijing time (02:45 GMT) from Shanghai Hong qiao International …

Japanese police on Friday detained a suspect who had been holed up in a building after allegedly killing four people including two police officers in a gun and knife attack, an official told AFP. The man was taken into custody outside the farm property near the city of Nakano in …

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang has called on Japan to consider waiving visas for Vietnamese citizens. He is on an official visit to Japan, where he took part in the 28th International Conference on the Future of Asia in Tokyo on Thursday. During a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister …

The weather pattern El Nino, expected to develop globally in the second half of the year, poses a larger risk for production of the robusta coffee variety than for milder arabica coffee, analysts and weather experts said. The weather phenomenon, which disrupts rainfall and temperature patterns, could further tighten supplies …