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A transgender child’s desire to join her school’s female running team could be decided by the US Supreme Court after West Virginia on Friday asked the high court to rule on the controversial case. The court was asked to overturn a lower appeals court decision that freezed West Virginia’s 2021 …

Startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group became the largest bank failure since the financial crisis on Friday, in a sudden collapse that roiled global markets and stranded billions of dollars belonging to companies and investors. California banking regulators closed the bank,which did business as Silicon Valley Bank, on Friday and appointed …

A California man was sentenced on Friday to serve 25 years to life in prison for his conviction in the 1996 killing of college classmate Kristin Smart, whose disappearance over a quarter-century go long ranked as one of state’s most sensational unsolved crimes. The sentence handed down for Paul Flores, …

The U.S. will supply DNA technology to help Vietnam to identify the remains of soldiers who died during the Vietnam War, said U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper. “We will bring the best and most advanced DNA technology to Vietnam in the hope of helping Vietnamese people find their relatives …

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and State President and President of Council for National Defense and Security Vo Van Thuong have congratulated Xi Jinping on his re-election as China’s President for the third time. The two Vietnamese leaders sent the congratulatory messages on Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs …

Two men in the central Thanh Hoa Province were found dead inside a field, suspected of having been electrocuted to death by mouse traps. Locals at Truong Trung Commune found the bodies of Nguyen Minh Chien, 31, and Nguyen Van Chien, 23, next to each other on a field at …

Indonesia’s biggest tech firm PT Goto Gojek Tokopedia announced on Friday another round of layoffs aimed at streamlining the organisation and boosting the company’s profitability. About 600 roles will be affected, the company said in a statement, following 1,300 jobs that were cut late last year. “One such change is …

A Korean Air Lines Co Ltd jet with 230 people on board was evacuated on Friday morning after two live bullets were found before takeoff at Incheon International Airport in South Korea, police said. The Manila-bound plane, which was originally scheduled to take off at 7:45 a.m. (2245 GMT on …

The Transport Department has decided not to remove the Nguyen Binh Khiem–Dien Bien Phu roundabout in District 1 as this would make it difficult for the city to regulate traffic. Ngo Hai Duong, head of the Management Board of Traffic Construction Projects under the HCMC’s Department of Transport, said the …

The Hanoi sidewalk cleanup campaign will require small food and beverage stalls to move away from main streets and into alleyways. At a press conference held Thursday by the Hanoi People’s Committee, Duong Duc Hai, deputy head of the police department, said there are not many people who use sidewalks …