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Publishers on Nguyen Van Binh Book Street sold 760,000 books last year at VND60 billion, up 15% in revenue against 2022, but its manager said more activities were needed to lure foreign visitors. Le Hoang, director of Ho Chi Minh City Book Street Co. Ltd., said last year, 275 events …

A court in HCMC handed jail terms to four men bringing US$538,000 in counterfeit money to a bank to exchange, successfully swapping around half of it for Vietnamese notes. Pham Hung Tuan, 34, Néang Sóc Rane, 37, a Khmer woman, Do Van Trung, 47, and Nguyen Bao Duy, 28, were …

Hong Kong actor Lee Lung Kei, 74, has denied rumors suggesting turmoil in his relationship with 37-year-old fiancée Chris Wong. Speculations were rife after Wong removed all her Instagram photos, including those with Lee, on Jan. 22. In a Ming Pao interview on the same day, Lee clarified that Wong’s …