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Man steals 500 fowl in great duck caper

A man in the Mekong Delta’s An Giang Province stole a total of 500 ducks from a local farm in two separate heists this spring. Nguyen Van Canh, 36, was arrested by Tan Chau Town police on Monday for the theft. Canh began coveting the ducks when he saw thousands …

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Meta hit with record $1.3B fine over data transfers

Meta hit with record $1.3B fine over data transfers

Meta was hit with a record 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) fine by its lead European Union privacy regulator over its handling of user information and given five months to stop transferring users’ data to the United States. The fine, imposed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), came after Meta …

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Vietnamese students win prizes at int’l science and engineering fair

Vietnamese students won a third prize at the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF 2023) Grand Awards. The winning project on pharmacological effects on the central nervous system of Litsea cubeba fruit and leaf essential oils based on pharmacological network in the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBIO) …

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Man arrested for beating pregnant wife

A man has been taken into custody on charges of beating his wife, after she fled to her parents to escape. Bui Thi Tuyet Giao, 36, showed up unannounced at her parent’s house in Hon Dat District of Kien Giang Province in the Mekong Delta on the night of May …

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Vietnamese siesta culture opens foreigners’ eyes

Tomomi from Japan was surprised to see her colleagues in Vietnam getting mattresses and pillows out after lunch for a snooze. “When I first came to Hanoi for work earlier last year, what I saw during lunch break was the lights going out in the office, and everyone going to …

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Man arrested for assaulting girlfriend’s 3-month-old baby

Police in the Central Highlands town of Da Lat have arrested a local man for allegedly assaulting a three-month-old baby and causing extensive injuries including to her skull. They said Sunday that Tran Hoai Thuong, 33, who is being investigated for “deliberately inflicting injury,” was arrested after the child was …

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Beijing rebukes Japan, Britain over ‘anti-China’ G7 summit

Beijing rebukes Japan, Britain over 'anti-China' G7 summit

State-backed Chinese mouthpiece Global Times called the G7 an “anti-China workshop” on Monday, a day after Beijing summoned Japan’s envoy and berated Britain in a fiery response to statements issued at the group’s summit in Hiroshima. Group of Seven (G7) declarationsissued on Saturday singled out China on issuesincluding Taiwan, nuclear …

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