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Detection in Wuhan of a bacteria that caused cholera in a student and was separately found in samples from turtles at a food market has struck a nerve with Chinese. The food market where samples from softshell turtles tested positive of the pathogen capable of causing cholera has been disinfected, …

The U.S. securities regulator quizzed Elon Musk over a tweet in which he raised doubts over $44 billion acquisition of Twitter due to concerns over fake users on the platform. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asked Musk in a letter whether he should have amended his public filing …

Lawmakers and U.S. sports leagues on Thursday backed a bid by the White House for expanded powers from Congress to detect and disable threatening drones. Congress in 2018 expanded the authority of the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to disable or destroy threatening drones, which are formally …

‘123456’ was among the most leaked passwords in Vietnam, with over 3.4 million uses last year, posing a cybersecurity risk that hackers can exploit, the information ministry said. At a conference on password-less authentication Wednesday, Nguyen Thanh Phuc, head of the organized by the Authority of Information Security (AIS) under …

A plane carrying Sri Lanka’s president arrived in Singapore from the Maldives Thursday, according to AFP reporters, a day after he escaped to the atoll nation. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife Ioma and their two bodyguards were on board the Saudia airline plane, an airport official earlier told AFP. The aircraft …

An 84-km railway line from Thap Cham to Da Lat, built by the French in early 20th century, will be revived at a cost of VND28 trillion ($1.15 billion). Built over a long period of 25 years (1908-1932), the line ran from the former coastal Champa Kingdom near Thap Cham …

Vietnamese pilots have occupied runways longer than needed while airplanes were not parked in order, causing thousands of delays in June, aviation authorities said. More than 5,600 flights operated by Vietnamese airlines were delayed last month, accounting for 18.2 percent of total services operated by the country’s six carriers, according …

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh requested China Wednesday to facilitate smooth customs procedures for agricultural products and establish hotlines for incidents regarding fishing activities at sea. At the 14th Meeting of the Vietnam-China Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation in China, jointly hosted by Minh and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang …

China will stop testing some imported goods for Covid-19, its national health commission said, as Beijing struggles to balance its insistence on zero-Covid with fears of economic slowdown. The last major economy committed to stamping out domestic spread of the virus, China has swabbed and disinfected overseas shipments since 2020 …

The Ministry of Transport has signed a contract with Kumho Engineering & Construction Co. to build a bridge between HCMC and Nhon Trach District in Dong Nai Province. Under the contract signed Wednesday, the South Korean company has to complete the VND1.8-trillion (US$77.3-million) bridge within three years from the time …