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A HCMC court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for impersonating a police officer to swindle 20 people out of VND38 billion (US$1.55 million) Nguyen Ngoc Thien, 43, was found guilty of “fraudulent appropriation of assets,” the court announced Tuesday. He had posed as a deputy inspector at the …

About 100 doctors at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi performed two major organ transplant surgeries in 24 hours straight, using two brain-dead donors to save eight patients. The donors, both men, aged 25 and 32, were residents of the northern provinces of Thai Nguyen and Phu Tho. They had suffered …

Intel said on Tuesday it will launch automotive versions of its newest AI-enabled chips, taking on Qualcomm and Nvidia in the market for semiconductors that can power the brains of future cars. Intel also said it will acquire Silicon Mobility, a French startup that designs system-on-a-chip technology and software for …

The CEO of an Indian AI startup has been arrested on suspicion that she murdered her four-year-old son after his body was found in her luggage, police said on Tuesday. Suchana Seth, who heads The Mindful AI Lab in India’s tech hub of Bengaluru, was detained in the Chitradurga district …

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday vowed to relax tax rules on multiple homeowners and ease rules governing the reconstruction of apartment buildings in a bid to curb housing costs and boost supplies. His comments come three months ahead of general elections in April. Despite a recent property …

Passengers on a bus in the northern Thai Binh Province broke the windows to escape after the vehicle nearly fell into a river on Wednesday. The bus was running on National Highway 10 in Vu Thu District at around 6:30 a.m. when it hit a tanker truck and a car, …

Over 2.3 million students in Hanoi will get an 8-day Tet break this year, the same as last year. The Hanoi People’s Committee on Tuesday approved the Tet break for students to from Feb. 7 to 14. The Lunar New Year, Vietnam’s biggest holiday, peaks on Feb. 10 this year. …

A man died in a house fire in HCMC’s District 12 on Wednesday as three other people managed to escape. Flames and smokes came out from the first floor of a three-story house on Le Van Khuong Street, Hiep Thanh Ward at around 2:30 a.m., when there were four people …

Police in Gia Lai Province have identified a man who later committed suicide as the main suspect in setting fire to an apartment that killed three people on Tuesday. The fire engulfed the rented apartment spanning 20 m2 in the Central Highlands province at around 2 a.m. Dozens of police …

More than 1,800 night flights, equivalent to 8% of the total number of domestic flights, will be operated from Jan. 21 to Feb. 25 to meet the increasing travel demand during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday. The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) issued a document allowing night flights …