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A Saigon real estate con man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after swindling around VND2.4 trillion ($101.6 million) from 4,560 people. Nguyen Thai Luyen, 36, president of Alibaba, had conned thousands of unwitting Vietnamese citizens into buying fake real estate properties, the HCMC People’s Court said. Vo Thi …

Defending champions Thailand fought back from going a goal behind and seeing a player sent off to earn a 1-1 draw with Indonesia in Jakarta in the Asean Championship on Friday in a re-run of last year’s final. Sarach Yooyen’s heavily deflected strike from the edge of the area 11 …

Vietnamese students in China are thrilled their northern neighbor plans to relax its Covid lockdown policies next January. Lang Quang Du, 27, who graduated from China’s Nanhua University in 2020, was relieved to hear that China is finally loosening its Covid-19 restrictions in 2023. He is currently enrolled in Chinese-language …