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French police arrested Australian Olympic field hockey player Tom Craig on suspicion of buying cocaine from a drug dealer in central Paris, police and prosecutors said Wednesday. Midfielder Craig, 28, last played for Australia on Sunday in his team’s quarter-final defeat to the Netherlands at the Paris Olympics. Australia’s Thomas …

Reduced working hours could improve the work-life balance, giving people more time to find partners and nurture family relationships, as Vietnam grapples with declining marriage rates and fertility issues. Addressing a workshop on improving policies in the Population Law and suggesting demographic transition policies for Asia-Pacific economies, held on Tuesday …

A woman in HCMC was sentenced to nine years in prison for kidnapping two girls and made them star in pornographic videos that she sent to her U.S. boyfriend. Pham Huynh Nhat Vi, 21, was sentenced by the Family and Juvenile Court under the HCMC People’s Court for “Employment of …

A member of K-pop mega group BTS apologized on Wednesday after being charged with riding an electric scooter while under the influence. Officers cited SUGA, 31, after he fell from his bike the night before in Seoul’s fashionable Yongsan district, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing local police. Posting to …

Four individuals in Gia Lai Province have been accused of desecrating graves to steal and sell aluminum frames from the deceased’s photos. Nguyen Tan Phat, Hoang Vu Bao, and Tran Minh Tu, all aged 18, were detained by Pleiku City police on Tuesday for theft. Another suspect, Nguyen Quang Huy, …

The Ministry of Public Security wants the fine for car drivers with a blood alcohol level not exceeding 50 mg/100 ml or 0.25 mg/l of breath to be reduced to VND800,000-1 million (US$31.78-40). It is seeking inputs for a decree to guide implementation of the Road Traffic Safety Law, which …

Apple could be the winner after Alphabet’s Google lost its fight with the U.S. antitrust enforcers earlier this week, with a ruling that supports the iPhone maker’s defense in its own antitrust court battle with U.S. prosecutors, legal experts said. A federal judge mostly sided with state and federal antitrust …

A Quang Nam Province court handed the death penalty on Tuesday to a drug dealer who was caught red-handed with two kilograms of drugs. Nguyen Van Ninh, 37, was found guilty of “illegal trading of narcotics.” According to the indictment, in April 2023 Ninh asked Huynh Khanh Trinh, 34, a …

The elevated section of the Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line in Hanoi is set to begin operation on Thursday, becoming the second metro line to open to the public in Vietnam. The Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board (MRB) announced on Tuesday that trains will start running at 8 a.m. on Thursday, …

The stage is set for an election that was unimaginable mere weeks ago when President Joe Biden was atop the Democratic ticket. Now Vice President Kamala Harris has tapped Minnesota Gov.Tim Walzas her running mate to take on RepublicanDonald Trump and his No. 2, Ohio Sen.JD Vance. As different as …