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Record-high winter temperatures swept across parts of Europe over the new year, bringing calls from activists for faster action against climate change while offering short-term respite to governments struggling with high gas prices. Hundreds of sites have seen temperature records smashed in the past days, from Switzerland to Poland to …

U.S. prosecutors are in the process of seizing shares of Robinhood Markets Inc tied to Sam Bankman-Fried, who has been charged with fraud in the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange. The Department of Justice did not believe the 56 million shares of Robinhood, worth about $465 million, were property …

Amazon.com Inc’s layoffs will now stretch to more than 18,000 roles as part of a workforce reduction it previously disclosed, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in a public staff note on Wednesday. The layoff decisions, which Amazon will communicate starting January 18, will largely impact the company’s e-commerce and human-resources …

A bus driver in the Central Highlands’ Dak Lak Province was suspended and fined after he was found texting on his phone while driving over a 40 km distance. Do Van Cuong, 35, was suspended for 20 days and fined VND1 million ($42.51) by the Quyet Thang Cooperative on Wednesday. …

An Omicron subvariant named XBB, believed to be highly contagious and capable of evading immune responses, has been found in HCMC. The HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases on Wednesday confirmed the presence of the subvariant upon Covid-19 variant screening among 526 patients. It is the first time that Vietnam has …

MobiFone subscribers in Ho Chi Minh City reported a loss of signal on Wednesday afternoon, which prevented them from making phone calls and accessing the internet. At around 5 p.m. ride-hailing driver Hoang Van was unable to access the internet to use his driver’s app. Restarting the phone and reinstalling …

The 10-year-old boy who got stuck inside a 35-meter- deep concrete pillar in the southern province of Dong Thap has died, authorities confirmed Wednesday evening. Thai Ly Hao Nam died after 100 hours of unsuccessful attempts by different agencies to save him, deputy chairman of the province Doan Tan Buu …

The 10-year-old boy who got stuck inside a 35-meter- deep concrete pillar in the southern province of Dong Thap has died, authorities confirmed Wednesday evening. Thai Ly Hao Nam died after 100 hours of unsuccessful attempts by different agencies to save him, deputy chairman of the province Doan Tan Buu …

A former Party secretary and a former chairman of the southern Dong Nai Province were sentenced to prison Wednesday in a major medical bribery case involving the AIC real estate company. The Hanoi People’s Court sentenced Tran Dinh Thanh, former Party Secretary of Dong Nai, and Dinh Quoc Thai, former …

Several young people in Hanoi have been sent to the hospital due to injuries from homemade firecracker, which many light up for Tet that is less than a month away. Doctor Nguyen Thai Ngoc Minh of the Le Huu Trac National Institute of Burns, said Monday that two burn cases …