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Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested six Malaysians after a group of Indonesians reported being smuggled by them to Vietnam and held captive to make scam calls. Leaw Boon Kiat, 36, Thong Joon King, 32 and Gan Ban Lee, 42, are being investigated for brokering illegal entry. The police …

Do Kwon, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion or more last year, has been charged with fraud by U.S. prosecutors. An eight-count indictment against Kwon was made public in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, several hours after news of his arrest earlier …

A South Korean waste treatment firm in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province has been fined VND1.3 billion (US$55,300) for discharging wastewater from its landfill into local streams. Kbec Vina Ltd. has also been suspended for discharging wastewater for 4.5 months. The yellow sewage, which has an unpleasant smell, was found flowing …

A court in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has handed prison terms to eight people involved in a kidney trading ring that sent 37 Vietnamese to Cambodia as organ donors. Each of the eight defendants received 10-16 years behind bars for the charge of “trading human body parts.” They all …

A cold front would barrel down northern Vietnam regions starting Saturday, plunging temperatures down to as low as 12 degrees Celsius, a drop of 4-5 degrees from Friday. The cold front would reach the eastern parts of northern Vietnam on Saturday morning, before enveloping other regions of the north, according …

As a child, Dong Van Canh watched while the rice fields of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta were set alight to make way for the next crop, blackening the sky and flooding the air with potent greenhouse gases. Rice, Asia’s principal staple, is to blame for around 10% of global emissions of …

Over-the-top media services, including popular messaging apps like Telegram, need to be managed under the Law on Telecommunications, according to amendments to it proposed by the government. The Ministry of Information and Communications said OTT services could be considered direct substitutes for traditional communications like calling and texting, and popular …

U.S. lawmakers at a congressional hearing on Thursday accused TikTok of serving harmful content and inflicting “emotional distress” on young users, grilling the Chinese-owned app’s CEO on the company’s outsized influence on teens. The hearing, which was TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew’s first appearance before Congress, comes at a …

The health ministry on Thursday proposed to apply excise tax for all sweetened drinks in accordance with WHO definitions. At a Thursday meeting on the impacts of sweetened drinks on health, Tran Thi Trang, deputy head of the legislation department under the Ministry of Health, said the ministry is proposing …

Singaporean chip designer Eu Gene Goh is an electric-vehicle evangelist with two Teslas in the garage. But the car-tech enthusiast is also not ready to give up his S$1.6-million ($1.21 million) McLaren 765LT with a V8 engine capable of hitting 100 km per hour (62 miles per hour) in three …