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Brazilian football icon Pele, a three-time World Cup winner who is widely regarded as the greatest player of all time, died on Thursday at the age of 82 — triggering a wave of tributes from the sports world and beyond. The Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo said in a …

A Saigon real estate con man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after swindling around VND2.4 trillion ($101.6 million) from 4,560 people. Nguyen Thai Luyen, 36, president of Alibaba, had conned thousands of unwitting Vietnamese citizens into buying fake real estate properties, the HCMC People’s Court said. Vo Thi …

Defending champions Thailand fought back from going a goal behind and seeing a player sent off to earn a 1-1 draw with Indonesia in Jakarta in the Asean Championship on Friday in a re-run of last year’s final. Sarach Yooyen’s heavily deflected strike from the edge of the area 11 …

Vietnamese students in China are thrilled their northern neighbor plans to relax its Covid lockdown policies next January. Lang Quang Du, 27, who graduated from China’s Nanhua University in 2020, was relieved to hear that China is finally loosening its Covid-19 restrictions in 2023. He is currently enrolled in Chinese-language …

A man in Hanoi was hospitalized after his penis enlargement surgery went dreadfully wrong. The patient was insecure due to the small size of his penis, so he turned to silicone injections to make it appear larger. However, a month after the injection, his genitalia began to hurt, and was …

Worked started Thursday on a traffic circle project to reduce congestion in the border area between Ho Chi Minh City and Dong Nai Province. With a price tag of more than VND3.4 trillion (US$144 million), the project to upgrade An Phu Intersection in Thu Duc City will build two overpasses …

Northern Vietnam’s lowest temperature on Thursday was 1 degree Celsius as a cold spell is affecting the region for the second day. The temperature was recorded on Mau Son peak, over 1,500 m above sea level in Lang Son Province. Several mountainous regions also saw temperatures drop by 3-4 degrees …

Six people have been killed after a bus and truck crash caused a huge fire at an expressway tunnel on the outskirts of Seoul, the local fire department told AFP. Images of the scene in local media showed huge flames and plumes of smoke rising from the tunnel, as hundreds …

An overnight fire at a casino complex in a Cambodian border town has killed at least seven people, and left 53 injured and eight missing, authorities in neighboring Thailand said on Thursday. The fire broke out at about midnight on Wednesday at Grand Diamond City, a casino and hotel in …

Hundreds of police officers in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday raided several offices and arrested 86 people masquerading as bank employees, who tried to persuade customers to withdraw money using their credit cards. Three offices in several buildings in the Tan Binh District were raided, with 86 people arrested …