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A container truck pushed a car sideways on a highway in the northern province of Hai Duong Tuesday after the latter switched lanes right in front of it.     Car hit by truck after switching lanes on highway Chuyển làn ẩu xe con bị xe container ủi ngang A …

A schoolgirl in the northern Bac Ninh Province has been diagnosed with “severe depression” after being constantly bullied by her classmates. Two weeks before she was admitted to the National Institute of Mental Health at Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi, Mai, 14, had stopped going to school, locked herself in …

Two HCMC students have secured internships at Boeing after the U.S. aviation company came for the first time to Vietnamese universities for campus interviews. Nguyen Dang Khoa and Le Minh Triet, both 22, majoring in Aerospace Engineering at the HCMC University of Technology, said they were surprised to learn they …

Netflix on Tuesday expanded its crackdown on users sharing passwords with people beyond their immediate family as it seeks to shore up revenue at the leading streaming television service. “A Netflix account is for use by one household,” the company said in a statement. Netflix said early this year that …

The U.S. Commerce Department should put trade curbs on Chinese memory chip maker Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) after Beijing earlier this week banned the sale of some chips by U.S.-based Micron Technology Inc, the chair of the U.S. House of Representatives’ committee on China said on Tuesday. The restrictions by …

A Patek Philippe wristwatch once owned by China’s last emperor sold for more than $6 million at auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday. The Ref 96 Quantieme Lune timepiece, which boasts a crown-like moon phase, originally belonged to Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the final monarch of the Chinese Qing dynasty. Emperor at …

A parent and a 6th grader from Hanoi drowned after being swept away by river rapids during a field trip in the northern province of Nam Dinh. Nguyen Xuan Manh, chairman of the Giao Thien Commune People’s Committee, said on Monday that the incident happened during a school trip to …

The Ho Chi Minh City transport department is proposing a total ban on sleeper buses in downtown areas, instead of the current 6 a.m.-10 p.m. ban. The total ban would help with managing and monitoring the operations of sleeper buses, according to the HCMC Department of Transport. The area where …

US Secret Service officers detained the driver of a U-Haul box truck in Washington on Monday night after the vehicle crashed into a barrier near the White House, the agency said in a statement. “There were no injuries to any Secret Service or White House personnel and the cause and …

Seven people, including four children, were killed when a roof over a school sports field collapsed in a storm in Thailand, officials said Tuesday. The children, aged between six and 13, were playing in the open-sided building at a school in Phichit province on Monday, watched by a number of …