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A foreign tourist sustained serious injuries after being bitten by a ferocious dog weighing 20kg in Nha Trang beach town on Sunday. The 19-year-old boy, whose nationality remains unknown, was walking with his friend at around 6 a.m. on October 23 Street in Vinh Hiep Commune when they were attacked …

Several tech firms in Vietnam are using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to do different tasks, from writing codes and bug checking to data analysis and report creation. After using ChatGPT to find faulty codes and look up technical terms for a week, Hoang Quan felt that it was time to expand AI’s …

Taiwanese shoemaker Pou Yuen Vietnam Co. Ltd., the largest employer in HCMC, has announced to lay off over 2,000 workers, blaming it on orders drying up. In an announcement on Sunday, the company in Binh Tan District, a contractor for major brands like Adidas, Nike and Reebook, said these laid-off …

A man in Binh Dinh Province tricked his close friend into becoming an illegal worker in Cambodia in order to avoid “being beaten” by his employer. Huynh Thanh Nhon, from the central province’s capital town Quy Nhon, has been detained for four months by the police in Binh Dinh while …

Police in the central province of Ha Tinh have detained five Vietnamese men for involvement in a ring accused of transporting VND6 billion ($252,000) worth of drugs from Laos to Vietnam. Nguyen Quoc Cuong and Nguyen Van Tiep, 27, Dau The Anh, 25, Hoang Van Khuong, 32 and Phan Manh …

A man and his 13-year-old daughter were killed in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Saturday after a car driving in the opposite direction rammed into their motorbike. At 3:20 p.m. Nguyen Van Ngo, 45, was carrying her daughter from Hoa Long Commune in Ba Ria Town to …

More than 46,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria and the toll is expected to soar, with some 345,000 apartments in Turkey now known to have been destroyed, and many still missing. As Turkey attempts to manage its worst modern disaster, concerns were growing …

Pham Minh Thong, once a struggling student in rural central Vietnam, is among the top 2% of scientists in the world. Thong, a lecturer in the faculty of construction engineering at Curtin University in Australia, is among 2% of scientists cited the most since 2020, according to data collected by …

North Korea said on Sunday it had tested a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) the previous day in a “sudden launching drill” that confirmed its readiness for “mobile and mighty counterattack” against hostile forces. North Korea launched a long-range ballistic missile into the sea off Japan’s west coast on Saturday …

The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand climbed to 11 on Sunday as thousands of people remained missing a week after the storm struck the country’s North Island. The cyclone hit the North Island’s uppermost region on Feb. 12 and tracked down the east coast, inflicting widespread devastation. …