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Ho Chi Minh City police have apprehended a man for hiding inside restaurant bathrooms at closing time to come out and steal at night. Phan Thanh Nam, 44, was arrested by police in Phu Nhuan District on Thursday for stealing and other potential crimes. Authorities said Nam would hide inside …

Chinese-owned Volvo Cars of Sweden said Thursday that it would cut 1,300 white-collar positions in Sweden in an effort to cut costs and warned that global cost-cutting measures were to come. CEO Jim Rowan said in a statement that cost-cutting measures taken last year had started to “bear results” but …

Microsoft on Thursday expanded public access to its generative artificial intelligence programs, despite fears that tech firms are rushing ahead too quickly with potentially dangerous technology. The AI-enhanced features of the company’s Bing search engine and Edge internet browser are now open for anyone to use, Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice …

Vietnam has demanded that Australian state firms stop issuing products with images of a yellow flag from a regime that no longer exists. “We are sorry and resolutely oppose the fact that the Royal Australia Mint and the Australia Post have issued products with the images of ‘yellow flag,’ which …

Police have arrested a former U.S. Coast Guardsman suspected of killing one person and wounding four, all of them women, in a shooting on Wednesday at a medical building in Atlanta, authorities said. The suspected gunman, identified as Deion Patterson, 24, was taken into custody without incident after an undercover …

During the five-day national holiday 16,000 drivers were fined for driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol while 11,000 got tickets for speeding. The central traffic police department said 67 people were killed in 129 road and rail accidents between April 29 and May 3, and 90 others were injured. …

Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of a failed attempt to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack on the Kremlin citadel in Moscow, and threatened to retaliate. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv had nothing to do with the reported overnight incident. “We don’t attack Putin, or Moscow, we …

President Vo Van Thuong left Hanoi for the U.K. on Thursday morning to attend the coronation of King Charles III, at the invitation of the Royal Family. The president’s attendance at the coronation ceremony demonstrates the importance Vietnam attaches to the Royal Family as well as the Vietnam-U.K. strategic partnership. …

The Federal Reserve moved its management of the post-pandemic economic recovery into a new phase with what may be the last in a historic series of interest rate hikes and heightened attention to credit and other economic risks. The U.S. central bank raised its benchmark overnight interest rate by a …

For those who’ve been bullied at school, the experience itself is hurtful enough, but overcoming it is yet another difficult journey. “People say that high school is supposed to be the best years of your life, but for me, it felt like hell,” said Trang, 19, who lives in the …