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After the location tracking app Zenly was shut down, many young people in Vietnam have searched for replacements, considering them ‘essential’ to stay connected with friends, despite data exploitation warnings. Bao Ngoc, a 21-year-old student in Hanoi, said he and his group of 20 friends had been loyal Zenly users …

A gang of nine robbers in southern Dong Nai Province was arrested Friday after committing over 40 robberies in multiple localities including Ho Chi Minh City. Le Huu Nghia and eight accomplices were arrested by police of Nhon Trach District for robbery. The police are also calling for the gang’s …

Chinese hotels and restaurants are seeking employees amid demand recovery in the services sector after the end of Beijing’s zero-Covid protocols, with a survey by a leading recruiter showing a surge in job openings in the hospitality industry. During the first six days of work after China’s Lunar New Year …

The political uproar over a suspected Chinese spy balloon drifting over the United States did not just derail a planned visit to Beijing by the top U.S. diplomat, it also threatens to upset attempts by both countries to steady an increasingly rocky relationship. The reaction in the United States to …

A U.S. jury on Friday found Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk and his company were not liable for misleading investors when Musk tweeted in 2018 that he had “funding secured” to take the electric car company private. Plaintiffs had claimed billions in damages and the decision also had been seen …

Two reputed gang members were arrested on Friday and charged with murdering six people, including an infant boy and his teenage mother, in a central California farming community last month in what authorities described as a targeted massacre. The two suspects – Angel Joseph Uriate, 35, and Noah David Beard, …

M alaysian Chuan Zhen Ko’s passion for clean energy and climate change was first ignited by his university lecturers and watching the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”, starring former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore. Ko, now 39, launched himself into a career in the renewables industry about 15 years ago, …

Convicted pedophile and former rocker Gary Glitter was released from a jail in Britain on Friday after serving half of a 16-year sentence. The 79-year-old singer – who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s – was convicted in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls. He was freed …

People have been flocking to the App Store and Play Store to look for ChatGPT, the trending AI language model that can only be accessed through web browsers. It is available for free at chat.openai.com but not yet in Vietnam. “Many people were curious and installed fake apps instead, and …

A parked tanker truck in HCMC’s Nha Be District caught fire on Friday afternoon and three nearby houses were damaged as a result. The fire suddenly started, accompanied by blasts, when the truck with 23,000 liters of gasoline was parked on Nguyen Huu Tho Street at around 1 p.m. Columns …