A U.S. jury on Friday found Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk and his company were not liable for misleading investors when Musk tweeted in 2018 that he had “funding secured” to take the electric car company private. Plaintiffs had claimed billions in damages and the decision also had been seen …
Read More »Pair of gang members arrested in California massacre of 6, including baby
Two reputed gang members were arrested on Friday and charged with murdering six people, including an infant boy and his teenage mother, in a central California farming community last month in what authorities described as a targeted massacre. The two suspects – Angel Joseph Uriate, 35, and Noah David Beard, …
Read More »Malaysia faces ‘inconvenient truth’ on clean energy goals
M alaysian Chuan Zhen Ko’s passion for clean energy and climate change was first ignited by his university lecturers and watching the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”, starring former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore. Ko, now 39, launched himself into a career in the renewables industry about 15 years ago, …
Read More »Child abuser Gary Glitter, once convicted in Vietnam, freed from UK jail
Convicted pedophile and former rocker Gary Glitter was released from a jail in Britain on Friday after serving half of a 16-year sentence. The 79-year-old singer – who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s – was convicted in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls. He was freed …
Read More »Vietnamese tricked into downloading, paying for ChatGPT ‘apps’
People have been flocking to the App Store and Play Store to look for ChatGPT, the trending AI language model that can only be accessed through web browsers. It is available for free at chat.openai.com but not yet in Vietnam. “Many people were curious and installed fake apps instead, and …
Read More »Tanker truck goes up in flames in HCMC
A parked tanker truck in HCMC’s Nha Be District caught fire on Friday afternoon and three nearby houses were damaged as a result. The fire suddenly started, accompanied by blasts, when the truck with 23,000 liters of gasoline was parked on Nguyen Huu Tho Street at around 1 p.m. Columns …
Read More »Vinaphone network down in several areas
Several Vinaphone network users in Hanoi on Friday said their phones cannot text, call others or access the Internet using 4G. “I was making a call when the signal was lost. I’ve tried multiple times to make the call again, but they all failed,” said Ngoc Hai from Hanoi. Several …
Read More »Oil tanker goes up in flames in HCMC
A parked oil tanker in HCMC’s Nha Be District caught fire on Friday afternoon and three nearby houses were damaged as a result. The fire suddenly started, accompanied by blasts, when the tanker with 23,000 liters of gasoline was parked on Nguyen Huu Tho Street at around 1 p.m. Columns …
Read More »China boosts imports of fuel oil blended from Russian barrels
China’s independent refineries are ramping up imports of discounted fuel oil blended from Russian barrels to use as low-cost feedstock amid a shortage of government crude oil import quotas for some of them, according to trade sources and data. Western sanctions over Russia’s attacks in Ukraine, including the looming Feb. …
Read More »Industrial park operator blocks HCMC factory over rent payment dispute
A factory at Tan Tao Industrial Park (IP) in HCMC’s Binh Tan District has been blocked as the IP accuses it of delinquency. For over a month, the façade of Viet Sinh Co. Ltd’s factory, which specializes in producing heating resistors in Tan Tao IP, had been covered with barriers …
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