Social media platform Reddit Inc is looking to go public later this year, likely in the second half, the Information reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reddit and other firms including grocery delivery firm Instacart are keeping their initial public offering paperwork up to date, in preparation …
Read More »Nine survivors pulled from Turkey’s rubble as earthquake death toll passes 40,000
Nine survivors were rescued from the rubble in Turkey on Tuesday, more than a week after a massive earthquake struck, as the focus of the aid effort shifted to helping people now struggling without shelter or enough food in the bitter cold. The disaster, with a combined death toll in …
Read More »South Korea January import price growth at near 2-year low
South Korea’s import prices fell for a third consecutive month in January to bring the annual growth rate down to a near 2-year low, data showed on Wednesday, adding to signs of easing pressure on consumer inflation ahead. The import price index, measured in terms of the won, dropped 2.3% …
Read More »Vietnam to build three undersea cables, ministry says
Vietnam aims to build three undersea Internet cables of its own by 2025, the Ministry of Information and Communication has announced. That would bring the total number of cables the country can use to 10. On the sideline of a meeting last week about problems with Vietnam’s undersea cables that …
Read More »Vietnam to send $200,000 to Turkey, Syria as earthquake aid
Vietnam will support Turkey and Syria with $100,000 each in aid to resolve consequences of devastating earthquakes that have killed over 37,000. In a letter sent to the presidents of Turkey and Syria on Tuesday, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said Vietnam would continue to provide other forms of support …
Read More »Grief overtakes families after Quang Nam bus wreck
Le Thi Le was sound asleep on the bus traveling through Quang Nam Province when she was jolted awake by what sounded like a bomb going off. The bus flipped, killing eight people it was carrying. Many people lost their family members and neighbors in the gruesome accident early Tuesday. …
Read More »South Koreans pay homage to victims of Vietnam War massacre
South Korean parliamentarians, history researchers and students have visited families who lost loved ones in a massacre by South Korean soldiers in central Quang Nam Province 55 years ago. At 10 a.m. on Monday, a bus carried 27 South Koreans to a memorial stele built to commemorate 20 victims killed …
Read More »Macaque disrupting Saigon’s neighborhood captured
Rangers have captured a macaque that has been running rampant and threatening the safety of a residential area in Ho Chi Minh City’s (HCMC) District 7 for over a week. On Tuesday morning, the male macaque, a member of an endangered species, snuck into a house on Huynh Tat Phat …
Read More »Vietnamese embraced diversity, personal wellbeing in 2022: Google search report
Keywords “gender equality” and “stress” saw among the biggest increases on Google search in Vietnam last year. The annual “Year in Search 2022” report by the tech giant on search behaviors said people are seeking to live life “on their own terms” by looking for their identities and others things …
Read More »At least 3 dead, 5 injured in shooting at Michigan State University
At least three people were killed and five injured after a gunman opened fire at Michigan State University on Monday night, as law enforcement swarmed the main campus in East Lansing searching for a lone suspect, police said. Few official details about the gun violence were immediately available, but Chris …
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