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Tesla Inc is opening a factory in Shanghai, capable of producing ten thousand Megapack energy product per year, to supplement output of Megapack factory in California, the company said in a tweet on Sunday. The news was first reported by Chinese state media outlet Xinhua. Elon Musk’s automaker will break …

Highly classified military and intelligence documents that appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine’s air defenses to Israel’s Mossad spy agency, have U.S. officials scrambling to identify the leak’s source, with some Western security experts and U.S. officials saying they suspected it could be someone from the United States. Officials …

Pope Francis appeared to ask Russians to seek the truth about their country’s invasion of Ukraine in his Easter message to the world on Sunday and appealed for dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians following recent violence. Francis, 86, presided at a solemn Easter day Mass in a sunny St. Peter’s …

Thanks to youth volunteers, Bach Long Vy, a frontline island off Vietnam’s northern coast, has been turned from an uninhabited piece of land in the sea into a residential island after 30 years. 20 years ago, Nguyen Van Hau joined 31 other volunteers on a quest to reclaim Bach Long …

Ride hailing service provider Grab has apologized for using a map that mislabeling Vietnamese islands as China’s, saying it is fixing the information. People booking Grab rides over the weekend discovered various misinformation on the app’s map. Among islands in the Truong Sa archipelago, only Son Ca and Sinh Ton …

Thailand’s decriminalization of cannabis has delighted its fans, alarmed some health experts and has increasingly disappointed farmers who have been undercut by illegal imports, sending a promise of a new bonanza crop up in smoke. Marijuana has also become an election football with the opposition criticizing the ruling pro-military coalition …

Many universities are adding courses in e-commerce and financial technology to catch up with market demand. In the 2023-24 school year the Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry is offering four new majors — law, data science, financial technology (fintech), and e-commerce – and hopes to enroll 60 …

Seven people including two children died in a fire on Saturday evening near the Philippines capital, police said. The fire destroyed 40 houses in the densely populated Taytay municipality southeast of Manila, police said Sunday. Several families, who lived in one house accessible only through a long, narrow alley, were …

A 17-meter-long (56-foot-long) sperm whale died after washing up on a beach in Bali, a conservation official said Sunday, making it the third whale that beached itself on the Indonesian island in just a little over a week. The male sperm whale was found stranded on Yeh Leh beach in …

The number of cancer patients in Vietnam has increased much higher from the past and cancer deaths are many times more than those caused by traffic accidents, according to the Ministry of Health. Around 354,000 Vietnamese are currently under cancer treatment and many only found it out in the final …