A Hanoi taxi driver was detained Monday for stealing VND4 million ($172.53) and a credit card from a South Korean customer. Vu Van Quan, 41, and his accomplice, Nguyen Van Doc, 42, were detained by Hoan Kiem District police pending investigation into stealing and storing or buying property illegally. VND40 …
Read More »Woman stabs belligerent urinator to death
A woman stabbed a man to death after he urinated in front of her house in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District on Sunday. Phan Ngoc Le, 56, is currently under investigation for “murder.” She said while her family was gathering for a death anniversary party Sunday evening, a …
Read More »Death toll rises to 26 after Indian bus falls into gorge
The death toll has risen to 26 after a bus fell into a gorge in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand with 30 people on board, with four of those rescued in critical condition, a police official said on Monday. The updated toll in Sunday’s bus crash was provided to Reuters …
Read More »New Australia PM, Indonesia President ride bikes as diplomatic wheels turn
Australia’s new prime minister and Indonesia’s president rode bamboo bicycles together on Monday as they held talks to boost ties, with Canberra embarking on a diplomatic charm offensive to counter China’s expanding assertiveness in the Asia-Pacific region. Anthony Albanese hailed relations with Indonesia and vowed to strengthen them on his …
Read More »Reservoirs, ‘sponge city’ model could mitigate Hanoi flooding: experts
Hanoi could make use of reservoirs and other natural methods to prevent flooding and inundation, similar to what Tokyo or Hong Kong are doing, experts said. The historic downpour on May 29, with the highest rain level seen since 1986, flooded over 100 locations in the capital. As the climate …
Read More »Boat rammed at sea, 3 fishermen die
Three fishermen were killed after a boat rammed theirs off the central Quang Nam Province early Monday. Colonel Hoang Van Man, head of the Quang Nam Border Guard, said the boat owned by Tran Van Cong, 47, of neighboring Quang Ngai Province had gone out to sea Saturday afternoon with …
Read More »Google told to pay Australian politician $515,000 over defamatory YouTube videos
An Australian court ordered Google to pay A$715,000 ($515,000) to a former senior lawmaker on Monday after finding that a YouTube commentator’s “relentless, racist, vilificatory, abusive and defamatory campaign” drove him to quit politics prematurely. The Federal Court found that Alphabet Inc’s Google, which owns content-sharing website YouTube, earned thousands …
Read More »South Korea, US launch eight missiles in response to North Korea missile firings
S. Korea and the U.S. fired eight surface-to-surface missiles early on Monday off South Korea’s east coast after North Korea launched a barrage of short range ballistic missiles on Sunday, a S. Korea defense ministry official said. The action is a demonstration of “the capability and readiness to carry out …
Read More »Nine dead in three mass shootings across US
Five people were killed and two dozen others wounded in a pair of weekend mass shootings in the United States, the latest in a string of deadly gun attacks that have left lawmakers scrambling to tackle the crisis. Shootings in three American cities killed nine people and wounded two dozen …
Read More »Foreign hackers steal big bucks from big banks in Vietnam
Foreign cyber criminals have infiltrated the server systems of several large Vietnamese banks and stolen a lot of money from customers, according to the Ministry of Public Security. Ministry spokesman and chief of office, Lieutenant General To An Xo, said Saturday that the hackers were mainly Taiwanese. They checked for …
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