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At a jail in northwestern Spain, a sole female inmate played football with 21 male convicts, part of a push towards mixed prison living that remains rare in Europe. Helga (L) and Ricardo, inmates at the Teixeiro prison, near A Coruna, talk together at the yard on Oct. 5, 2023. …

Elon Musk’s verbal assault on advertisers who have shunned X (formerly Twitter) threatens to sink the social network further, with the tycoon warning of the platform’s demise, just one year after taking control. Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, …

Hoa Sen University has expelled a student for slapping her classmate on Tuesday, but details are sketchy. During a general law class, the 26-year-old first-year fashion design student argued loudly with a classmate before slapping that student in the face. When the lecturer tried to step in, she ordered her …

A man who robbed a jewelry shop in southern Vietnam fell off his motorbike and died while trying to get away from the police who were giving chase. Huynh Hai Quang, 37, and his accomplice, Lai The Viet 21, arrived at the family-owned gold shop in Chau Thanh District in …

Da Nang will build a central city square next to the Han River at a cost of over VND1 trillion ($41.16 million). The Da Nang Consultant Technical Construction Center invited individuals and units, both inside and outside of Vietnam, to participate in a competition to design the architecture of the …

Vietnam Drug Administration and IQMED-G&B organized a hybrid workshop in Hanoi last month that gathered officers, experts, and representatives from various institutes and universities. At the workshop on Nov. 24 and 25, the speakers and participants discussed, analyzed, evaluated current challenges in practice while exchanging management experiences from other countries. …

A restaurant in the central province of Thanh Hoa has returned VND270 million (US$11,111) to a woman who accidently transferred 1,000 times the cost of her VND270,000 meal. Nguyen Thi Thu Trang received the money back from Hoang Hiep, the owner of Lan Ngan restaurant, at a local police station …

Vietnamese officials received Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Hanoi on Friday and expressed the desire to expand cooperation between the two strategic partners. Communist Party Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong received Yi by suggesting that both countries enhance high-level exchanges to boost strategic relations. The Vietnamese Party leader expressed appreciation …

A former hospital director in Ho Chi Minh City was sentenced to 21 years in jail on Friday for embezzling VND103 billion (US$4.2 million) from bidding violations. Nguyen Minh Quan, Thu Duc Hospital’s former director, had pressured his employees into helping companies that had connections to him win bids in …

Hanoi has spent $3 million buying ideas from a foreign unit to develop the capital, the city’s chairman Tran Sy Thanh said Friday. In a discussion with citizens of Soc Son and Me Linh districts, Thanh and National Assembly delegates said the city is creating urban planning schemes for the …