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Police arrested 14 employees at two companies in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District for threatening people who failed to pay overdue loans. Those detained work for Vietnam Thinh Vuong Debt Trading JSC and THT Law Co. Ltd. They are now being investigated for “extortion.” The arrests came after …

A former bank director in Hanoi was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday for wrongfully allowing VND360 billion ($15.27 million) in loans to an incompetent Taiwanese firm. Do Quoc Hung, former director of the BIDV Thanh Do Branch, along with four other former BIDV employees, were charged with …

A former police officer and seven former employees of telecommunications firm VNPT have received prison terms for forging police documents and selling the personal data of 1,007 people. A court in Hanoi sentenced Tran Manh Quan, a former police officer, to six years in prison Wednesday for illegally using citizens’ …

Hanoi has the second worst air quality in Southeast Asia after Pasarkemis in Indonesia, according to a 2022 annual survey by IQAir, a Swiss maker of air purifiers. The Vietnamese capital city’s air quality worsened to 40.1 micrograms of PM2.5 particles per cubic meter in 2022 from 36.2 in 2021, …

An endangered turtle weighing over 100 kg was caught in the net of fishermen and eventually released back to the sea. Pham Thanh, 58, found the turtle stuck in his net at around 3:30 a.m. Thursday. He and his neighbors then brought the turtle into the shore and informed local …

Police arrested 14 members at two companies in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District who have threatened and insulted people that failed to pay loan overdue. Those arrestees work for Vietnam Thinh Vuong Debt Trading JSC and THT Law Co. Ltd. They are now being investigated for “extortion.” Their …

A Vietnamese national has been charged by the U.S. Justice Department with money laundering and identity theft involving a cryptocurrency platform, the department announced Wednesday. International authorities have cracked down on the cryptocurrency platform ChipMixer, alleging it helped obscure the digital money trail for online drug dealers, Russian military hackers …

Hundreds of U.S. veterans and people of central Quang Ngai Province on Thursday participated in a memorial ceremony for 504 victims of the My Lai Massacre, which occurred in 1968. Participants lit incense in front of the Son My memorial site in My Lai, observing a minute of silence to …

The number of South Koreans who tied the knot last year hit a record low, figures showed Thursday, compounding looming demographic woes in a country with the world’s lowest birth rate. Some 192,000 couples got married last year, according to the data released by Statistics Korea Thursday, down by more …

Yoon Suk Yeol became the first South Korean president to visit Japan in 12 years on Thursday, in a step towards repairing a relationship strained by history and rebuilding cooperation in the face of North Korea’s frequent missile launches. Yoon and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are expected to present …