Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he expects to be arrested on Tuesday as prosecutors consider charges overahush money payment to a porn star, and called on his supporters to protest. A spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been investigating a$130,000payment to porn actor Stormy …
Read More »Student and parent personal data offered for pennies
Le Manh, an admissions officer for a university, said he was offered money to sell data of students who had applied to the school for VND10,000 (42 cents) each. After last year’s university entrance examination, Manh says he received a phone call from a person who wished to buy a …
Read More »Medicine supply crisis could ease as Vietnam removes cap on bidding prices
Hospitals will be allowed to negotiate the prices of drugs and medical supplies when bidding instead of having to follow government-set price caps. According to a new regulation announced recently by the Ministry of Health, starting April 27, hospitals will be allowed to use the price quote from one seller …
Read More »China cuts reserve ratio given domestic pressures, overseas risks: state media
China’s central bank made a “timely” move by pumping liquidity into the banking system to respond to rising pressures in the domestic banking industry and growing risks abroad, a state-owned Chinese newspaper said on Saturday. The central bank on Friday reduced the amount of cash banks must hold as reserves …
Read More »Vietnam calls for end of violence in Myanmar
The Vietnamese Ambassador to the U.N. called all parties to exercise restraint, stop violence and dialogue to reach a peaceful solution to the Myanmar issue. During the meeting on Thursday to address the situation in Myanmar of the United Nations General Assembly (UN), Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, head of the …
Read More »Cambodia celebrates return of ‘priceless’ stolen Angkor jewelry
Cambodian leader Hun Sen unveiled a collection of stolen Angkor crown jewelry on Friday which was recently returned to the kingdom after decades in Britain, pleading for other long-lost treasures to be handed back. Gold crowns, necklaces and amulets were among the trove of treasures from the Angkor period, which …
Read More »‘I’M BACK’: Trump returns to Facebook, YouTube after two-year ban
Former president Donald Trump wrote his first posts on his reinstated Facebook and YouTube accounts Friday, more than two years after he was banned over the U.S. Capitol insurrection. “I’M BACK,” Trump exclaimed, alongside a 12-second video clip that appeared to show him giving his victory speech after winning the …
Read More »Musk says code for recommending tweets will be public
Twitter owner Elon Musk on Friday put out word that he will make public the long-secret algorithm for recommending tweets. The code used for recommending the posts suggested to users will become “open source” at the end of March, Musk said in a tweet of his own. “People will discover …
Read More »Thailand prepares to dissolve parliament ahead of election
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Friday he had prepared a decree seeking to dissolve parliament ahead of an election, an expected step as his government heads into the last week of its four-year term. The decree would require approval of Thailand’s monarch and would take effect once published …
Read More »Huawei has replaced thousands of US-banned parts in its products, founder says
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s founder said that the company has replaced more than 13,000 parts in its products that were hit by U.S. trade sanctions, according to a transcript of a speech posted on Friday by a Chinese university. According to the transcript posted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Huawei …
Read More »