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Applications from Vietnamese developers have been downloaded over 5.6 billion times last year, making Vietnam one of the fastest-growing markets for applications. At the ThinkApps 2024 event, Marc Woo, managing director in Vietnam for Google, on Thursday said Vietnam’s application and game development industry has been among the global top …

Nine people died when a 16-seater van traveling in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang Saturday was buried by a landslide triggered by heavy rains. Ma Van Toe, vice chairman of Bac Me District, where the tragic incident occurred, said the landslide occurred at around 4 a.m. By 9:15 …

Thousands of prisoners are to be released early from September in order to prevent the “collapse” of the prisons system, the U.K.’s new justice minister announced on Friday. A prisoner behind bars. Illustration photo by Pexels Shabana Mahmood said failure to do so risked the “total breakdown of law and …

An airport in eastern Hungary is temporarily closed due to runway damage caused by the scorching temperatures of a heat wave hitting the central European country, its operator said on Friday. Hungary’s Debrecen international airport. Photo from Debrecen international airport’s website Despite a typically temperate climate, Hungary has been experiencing …

Vietnamese President To Lam held talks with President of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and President of the Senate Samdech Techo Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on Friday. Congratulating the CPP on its great success at the recent elections and Hun Sen on his election as President of the Senate, …

“Facial enhancement fillers” injected into a Vietnamese woman at a spa in Japan rendered her blind. The 30-year-old woman from Ha Tinh Province in central Vietnam suffered drooping eyes, dizziness and nausea, after spa employees injected 0.5 cc of fillers into her forehead. Her legal name has not been released. …

Many landlords in Hanoi are rushing to install emergency exits and fire safety equipment for their rental buildings following an announcement that operations would be halted without such measures. Over the past week, Nguyen Cong Duy, a landlord in Phu Do Ward of Nam Tu Liem District, has been tirelessly …

A man in Ho Chi Minh City has filed a lawsuit against the city’s traffic police unit after being fined for driving under influence, claiming the alcohol level in his breath was due to mouthwash. According to the lawsuit, at 9 p.m. on March 13 last year, while driving on …

This railway crosses numerous time zones, linking a capital to the far eastern regions of a vast country.

A Hanoi company vice director was accused of helming a cryptocurrency ring with multi-marketing schemes that hosted hundreds of thousands of accounts, potentially worth billions of U.S. dollars. Than Van Thoai, 40, vice director of the Global BBA company, along with seven others, was put under an investigation by the …