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Hong Kong is ready to welcome the world back, its leader said Thursday, as he pitched free flights and positive publicity to resurrect the once-vibrant global hub after three years of Covid-enforced isolation. The government’s rebranding campaign, “Hello, Hong Kong”, bills itself as an effort to tell “good stories” about …

Vietnam still has more than 1.97 million poor and near-poor households, according to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs in 2022. The survey showed that the overall national poverty ratio was 7.52%, with 4.03% being poor households and 3.49% being near-poor families. The highest …

Hundreds of people in Vietnam have fallen for a variety of online scams involving gifts and recruitment after the Tet holiday. Dao Van Chieu, from the north-central province of Thanh Hoa, said that he received a call on Monday, his first day back in the city after a visit to …

A married couple entered a primary school in southern Vietnam and beat two students, whom they believed had bullied their son. Social media users on Wednesday shared a video showing a man and a woman entering the campus of Tan An Thanh 2 Primary School in Binh Tan District of …

The Philippines has granted the United States expanded access to its military bases, the countries said on Thursday, amid mounting concern over China’s increasing assertiveness in the disputed South China Sea and tensions over self-ruled Taiwan. Washington would be given access to four more locations under an Enhanced Defense Cooperation …

ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history. The report, citing data from analytics firm Similarweb, said an average of about 13 million unique visitors had used …

HCMC wants to upgrade national highways and routes linking it with other localities under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) method, according to a proposal made by the Department of Transport. The city currently only uses the BOT method to build new road projects. As proposed by the Transport Department to the Department …

Vietnamese families in South Korea and Japan are struggling as water pipes freeze and heating costs skyrocket amid some of the worst cold spells to ever hit Northeastern Asia. “Blizzards caused several flights to be canceled, and vehicles have to constantly keep their lights on and move at very slow …

Police raided the New Phuong Dong Club in Da Nang, the largest nightclub in central Vietnam, Tuesday and caught 64 drug users red-handed. When officers from the Hai Chau District police went into the club on Dong Da Street at midnight, there were hundreds of customers, many high on drugs. …

A gauge of global stocks rose and the U.S. dollar and Treasury yields were lower on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised its target interest rate by the expected 25 basis points but communicated more increases were on the horizon. The Fed said the U.S. economy was enjoying “modest growth” …