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A man in HCMC was arrested Tuesday after stealing 36 iPhones and two MacBooks worth VND800 million ($32,171) at a tech firm. Nguyen Tan Nhat, 21, was arrested by police of Binh Thanh District to be investigated for theft. All the stolen items have been seized. On October 27, a …

Two people in the Mekong Delta’s Kien Giang Province have died to alcohol poisoning after drinking at a funeral. Duong Phuoc Dong, head of the intensive care and clinical toxicology department of the Kien Giang General Hospital, said the two patients suffered from multiple organ failure and damage to the …

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has sold $3.95 billion worth of shares in the electric vehicle maker, according to U.S. regulatory filings, days after he completed his purchase of Twitter Inc for $44 billion. Musk, whose net worth dropped below $200 billion after investors dumped Tesla stock, unloaded …

Meta Platforms Inc will begin laying off employees on Wednesday morning, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told hundreds of executives on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. Zuckerberg appeared downcast in Tuesday’s meeting and said he was accountable for the company’s missteps and his overoptimism about growth had led to overstaffing, …

Crypto exchange FTX saw around $6 billion of withdrawals in the 72 hours before Tuesday morning, according to a message to staff sent by its CEO Sam Bankman-Fried that was seen by Reuters. In a surprise move, Changpeng Zhao, boss of major rival Binance, said on Tuesday the company signed …

Two villas among 79 illegally built on public land in the southern island of Phu Quoc were demolished by authorities on Wednesday. The villas, belonging to 52-year-old Vu Dinh Khanh and 49-year-old Le Xuan Hong, were built over 1,000 square meters of land. Some people came to oppose the demolition, …

Control of Congress was up for grabs after Tuesday’s U.S.midterm elections with many of the most competitive races uncalled, leaving it unclear whether Republicans would seize control from President Joe Biden’s Democrats. Featured Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta (GMT+7) Oldest Latest Has news updated 15h23 Democrats win governors’ races in three crucial …

Republicans were favored to wrest control of the U.S. House of Representatives away from President Joe Biden’s Democrats based on early returns in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Featured Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta (GMT+7) Oldest Latest Has news updated 14h14 ‘We are going to take the House back’ The top Republican in the …

An Australian man has been sentenced to 129 years in a Philippine jail as part of a child sexual abuse case involving victims as young as 18 months, a prosecutor said Wednesday. It was the second conviction for Peter Gerard Scully, who is already serving a life sentence for an …

Apple supplier Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant on Monday kicked off a fresh recruitment drive seeking workers, saying that it would offer staff who had left in recent weeks a one-off bonus of 500 yuan ($69.28) should they return. New workers will be offered a salary of 30 yuan ($4.16) per hour, …