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Japan arrests Vietnamese for swindling $35,000 in cyber fraud

A Vietnamese man was arrested by Japanese police on charges of swindling ¥5 million ($35,829) by remote-controlling his victims’ computers. Tran Viet Anh, 29, was arrested over allegations of remote controlling an online bank account and illegally transferring money into his own account, police of Aichi Prefecture said on Wednesday, …

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Hydropower dams continue to lack water for next 10 days

Heavy rain is expected in the north in the coming days, but the water level in hydropower reservoirs will remain lower than in previous years, causing difficulties for power generation. Nguyen Van Huong, head of the weather forecast department at the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, said in the next …

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Deadly dreams: record Everest season among most dangerous

Deadly dreams: record Everest season among most dangerous

Scaling Everest is always dangerous, but expedition organisers have warned that a combination of extreme weather, corner-cutting on safety, and inexperienced and “impatient” foreign climbers has resulted in one of the peak’s deadliest mountaineering seasons. As the last search and rescue teams hang up their boots and the tent city …

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Man survives 4 days lost at sea

A man survived four days at sea after falling off a fishing vessel 370 km away from the shore. Tran Van Viet from the Mekong Delta’s Kien Giang Province, and 17 crewmembers went to sea on the Ngoc Loi fishing vessel in the delta’s Ben Tre Province in mid-May on …

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Canada wildfires spark ‘ecoterrorist’ conspiracy theory

Canada wildfires spark 'ecoterrorist' conspiracy theory

As Canada hurtles towards its worst wildfire season in history, a conspiracy theory has taken off online claiming environmentalists intentionally set some of the blazes. “I bet a good portion of the wildfires raging across the country were started by green terrorists who want to give their climate change campaign …

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Vietnam PM exhorts nation to save power

Vietnam PM Pham Minh Chinh has called on the public to conserve electricity, as prolonged and record heat has dried up hydropower dams and resulted in severe power shortage. In a directive released Thursday on electricity saving, he warns that the power situation is challenging now and will remain so …

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Japanese emperor to visit Indonesia in first state trip

Japanese emperor to visit Indonesia in first state trip

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Indonesia this month on their first state visit since ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne in 2019, the Japanese government said Friday. The June 17-23 trip comes after Indonesian President Joko Widodo invited the couple during a visit to Tokyo last year. “The visit …

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Vietnamese vice principal abandons post for Korea

A vice principal in Ha Tinh Province in central Vietnam has been fired for abandoning his job and going incommunicado in South Korea. Le Van Quynh, 45, vice principal of the Ky Xuan Secondary School, left behind a trail of conflicting stories as to whether he was traveling to find …

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