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A man in the Mekong Delta’s An Giang Province stole a total of 500 ducks from a local farm in two separate heists this spring. Nguyen Van Canh, 36, was arrested by Tan Chau Town police on Monday for the theft. Canh began coveting the ducks when he saw thousands …

Meta was hit with a record 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) fine by its lead European Union privacy regulator over its handling of user information and given five months to stop transferring users’ data to the United States. The fine, imposed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), came after Meta …

Vietnamese students won a third prize at the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF 2023) Grand Awards. The winning project on pharmacological effects on the central nervous system of Litsea cubeba fruit and leaf essential oils based on pharmacological network in the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBIO) …

An alliance led by Thailand’s progressive Move Forward party hopes to draft a new constitution, end monopolies and allow same-sex marriage, among other aims, according to a draft of objectives that made no mention of a divisive royal insult law. The opposition Move Forward and Pheu Thai parties dominated last …

A man has been taken into custody on charges of beating his wife, after she fled to her parents to escape. Bui Thi Tuyet Giao, 36, showed up unannounced at her parent’s house in Hon Dat District of Kien Giang Province in the Mekong Delta on the night of May …

Tomomi from Japan was surprised to see her colleagues in Vietnam getting mattresses and pillows out after lunch for a snooze. “When I first came to Hanoi for work earlier last year, what I saw during lunch break was the lights going out in the office, and everyone going to …

Police in the Central Highlands town of Da Lat have arrested a local man for allegedly assaulting a three-month-old baby and causing extensive injuries including to her skull. They said Sunday that Tran Hoai Thuong, 33, who is being investigated for “deliberately inflicting injury,” was arrested after the child was …

There will be a brief respite from the year’s longest heat wave this week when a cold air mass hits the north and also lowers temperatures in the central region. Temperatures of 38-41 degrees Celsius were recorded in many northern localities last week. Hanoi’s Ha Dong station reported a maximum …

E truck rear-ended a car and dragged it for 20 meters on the Ho Chi Minh City – Trung Luong Expressway Saturday afternoon, causing a huge traffic jam. At around 3 p.m. the truck, which was heading towards HCMC, hit the sedan, but did not cause any injuries. The front …

State-backed Chinese mouthpiece Global Times called the G7 an “anti-China workshop” on Monday, a day after Beijing summoned Japan’s envoy and berated Britain in a fiery response to statements issued at the group’s summit in Hiroshima. Group of Seven (G7) declarationsissued on Saturday singled out China on issuesincluding Taiwan, nuclear …