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An endangered turtle weighing over 100 kg was caught in the net of fishermen and eventually released back to the sea. Pham Thanh, 58, found the turtle stuck in his net at around 3:30 a.m. Thursday. He and his neighbors then brought the turtle into the shore and informed local …

Police arrested 14 members at two companies in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District who have threatened and insulted people that failed to pay loan overdue. Those arrestees work for Vietnam Thinh Vuong Debt Trading JSC and THT Law Co. Ltd. They are now being investigated for “extortion.” Their …

A Vietnamese national has been charged by the U.S. Justice Department with money laundering and identity theft involving a cryptocurrency platform, the department announced Wednesday. International authorities have cracked down on the cryptocurrency platform ChipMixer, alleging it helped obscure the digital money trail for online drug dealers, Russian military hackers …

Hundreds of U.S. veterans and people of central Quang Ngai Province on Thursday participated in a memorial ceremony for 504 victims of the My Lai Massacre, which occurred in 1968. Participants lit incense in front of the Son My memorial site in My Lai, observing a minute of silence to …

The number of South Koreans who tied the knot last year hit a record low, figures showed Thursday, compounding looming demographic woes in a country with the world’s lowest birth rate. Some 192,000 couples got married last year, according to the data released by Statistics Korea Thursday, down by more …

Yoon Suk Yeol became the first South Korean president to visit Japan in 12 years on Thursday, in a step towards repairing a relationship strained by history and rebuilding cooperation in the face of North Korea’s frequent missile launches. Yoon and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are expected to present …

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday the city-state would work with Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries, as well as partners like the United Nations, to push Myanmar’s military rulers to implement a stalled peace plan. He was speaking after meeting visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Lee …

A former official at the Vietnamese embassy in Malaysia is the latest to be investigated for involvement in the bribery scandal surrounding repatriation of people during the Covid outbreak. Dang Minh Phuong, 38, is suspected of “abuse of position and power while performing official duties,” by investigators under the Ministry …

Credit Suisse on Thursday said it would borrow up to $54 billion from the Swiss central bank to shore up its liquidity and investor confidence after a slump in its shares intensified fears about a global financial crisis. In its statement early Thursday, Credit Suisse said it would exercise its …

The Biden administration has demanded that TikTok’s Chinese owners divest their stakes in the popular video app or face a possible U.S. ban, the company told Reuters on Wednesday. The move, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is the most dramatic in a series of recent steps by U.S. …