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Phone scams surge as telecom providers request data

As official text messages went out from telecom firms this week asking users to verify their personal information, so did several identity-theft scam calls requesting the same data. Thuy Trang, who lives in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District, received a call from an unknown number at 7 a.m. Thursday. When she …

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My wife lied: she already has a child

I’m a 54-year-old Vietnamese living abroad who recently married a 36-year-old woman. We met 4 years ago when I was traveling in Vietnam. Before Covid, I used to visit Vietnam twice a year. I dated my wife for a year before proposing. We had only met each other twice while …

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Street vendors see no end to sidewalk wars

Three times a day on average, whenever Hanoi street vendor Han Le gets wind of an approaching police patrol, she quickly deconstructs and hides her sidewalk shop beside West Lake. After about an hour of hiding all her tables and chairs in her house, Han, the owner of a 20-year-old …

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