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China has launched a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization against the United States over its chip export control measures, China’s commerce ministry said. The United States passed a sweeping set of regulations in October aimed at kneecapping China’s semiconductor industry, prompting a complaint from a top China trade …

Air monitoring indicates HCMC’s fine dust volume has exceeded safety thresholds and threatens to cause respiratory ailments. Monitoring by the city Department of Natural Resources and Environment found fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exceeding Vietnam’s prescribed safety limit of 50 µg/m3 for 24 hours and 25 µg/m3 over a year. The …

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sentenced a beauty queen to seven years in jail Tuesday for stealing a Rolex watch worth VND2 billion (US$84,600) from her boyfriend. La Thi Anh, 32, who won the 2018 Miss Viet Nam Continents pageant in the U.S. while studying at the New …

China has launched a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization against the United States over its chip export control measures, China’s commerce ministry said. The United States passed a sweeping set of regulations in October aimed at kneecapping China’s semiconductor industry, prompting a complaint from a top China trade …

People in China celebrated the withdrawal on Tuesday of a state-mandated app used to track whether they had traveled to Covid-stricken areas, in the latest loosening of some of the world’s toughest anti-virus rules. China last week started axing key parts of its stringent “zero-Covid” regime. This has included dropping …

Temperatures in Saigon, normally one of the warmest places in Vietnam, dropped to around 20 degrees Celsius Tuesday morning, giving its residents an early Christmas chill. Several people could be spotted wearing coats and gloves on the streets. Some clasped and rubbed their hands together at the traffic lights; schoolchildren …

Sam Bankman-Fried, who founded and led FTX until a liquidity crunch forced the cryptocurrency exchange to declare bankruptcy last month, was arrested on Monday in The Bahamas after being criminally charged by U.S. prosecutors. It marks a stunning fall from grace for the 30-year-old entrepreneur who rode a cryptocurrency boom …

Six people were killed, including two police officers, at a remote property in Australia’s Queensland state, authorities said on Tuesday, after police visited the place to investigate reports of a missing person. Initial information indicated the officers were shot by two armed offenders on Monday evening when they approached the …

Morocco’s Royal Air Maroc will operate 30 special flights to carry soccer fans from Casablanca to Doha for the country’s Wednesday World Cup semifinal game against France, the airline said on Monday. The flights would depart on Tuesday and Wednesday, it said. To the delight of Moroccans, and not just …

Sam Bankman-Fried, who founded and led FTX until a liquidity crunch forced the cryptocurrency exchange to declare bankruptcy last month, was arrested on Monday in The Bahamas after being criminally charged by U.S. prosecutors. It marks a stunning fall from grace for the 30-year-old entrepreneur who rode a cryptocurrency boom …