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Many universities are adding courses in e-commerce and financial technology to catch up with market demand. In the 2023-24 school year the Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry is offering four new majors — law, data science, financial technology (fintech), and e-commerce – and hopes to enroll 60 …

Seven people including two children died in a fire on Saturday evening near the Philippines capital, police said. The fire destroyed 40 houses in the densely populated Taytay municipality southeast of Manila, police said Sunday. Several families, who lived in one house accessible only through a long, narrow alley, were …

A 17-meter-long (56-foot-long) sperm whale died after washing up on a beach in Bali, a conservation official said Sunday, making it the third whale that beached itself on the Indonesian island in just a little over a week. The male sperm whale was found stranded on Yeh Leh beach in …

The number of cancer patients in Vietnam has increased much higher from the past and cancer deaths are many times more than those caused by traffic accidents, according to the Ministry of Health. Around 354,000 Vietnamese are currently under cancer treatment and many only found it out in the final …

Receiving a U.S. congressional delegation on Saturday, PM Pham Minh Chinh asked the U.S. Congress to increase budget for supporting Vietnam in overcoming war consequences. At the meeting at the government’s headquarters in Hanoi, PM Chinh said Vietnam considers the U.S. one of its most important partners and expressed desire …

Jos Avery was given a camera almost four decades ago, sparking a lifelong fascination with photography. But last September he found a new creative outlet, one that led him to deceive thousands of people: the artificial intelligence program Midjourney, which generates wild and wonderful images from brief text instructions. “Soon …

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Saturday he is seeking the pardon of an Uber driver convicted of murder a day earlier in the July 2020 shooting death of a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin, the state capital. Abbott, in a post on Twitter, said …

At least four people were killed in a shooting in southern Thailand on Saturday, police said, with local media reporting that officers were still searching for the suspect. The attack started at about 5 p.m. (1100 GMT), in Khiri Rat Nikhom district in Surat Thani province — roughly 600 km …

Flames engulfed over 10 ha (24.7 acres) of pine forest in the central hill town Da Lat for 8 hours on Friday, with streaks of fire seen spanning across several hills. Vu Dinh Cuong, head of the Lam Dong Department of Forest Protection, on Saturday said the fire, which occurred …

A team of five students from the Foreign Trade University are the first Vietnamese to ever break into the top 10 in the Global Case Competition at Harvard (GCCH). The Vietnamese team, named Primo Partners, is comprised of sophomore and junior students at the university’s Ho Chi Minh City campus: …