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Police in Hanoi have arrested a man who stole nine smartphones from people visiting Tran Quoc Pagoda during the Lunar New Year holiday. Police in the Tay Ho District have arrested Chu Van Dung, 30, with property theft charges. Dung told police that he had taken advantage of the situation …

The United States, in a reversal, is poised to start a process that would eventually send dozens of M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday. Such a decision by the United States would come just days after Washington argued against sending the Abrams, despite …

Japan’s coastguard said on Wednesday that it had rescued four crew members from a cargo ship that sank overnight off the country’s southwest, but was still searching for 18 others. “At 7:14 a.m. (2214 GMT), four Chinese nationals were rescued but we’re still searching for the remaining 18 members,” a …

Entrepreneurs on Thailand’s holiday island of Phuket are bracing enthusiastically for the long-awaited return of Chinese tourists, hoping China’s reopening and dismantling of its strict Covid-19 curbs can boost their flagging businesses. In the year before the pandemic, nearly a third of Thailand’s visitors were Chinese tourists, who once accounted …

The U.S. Justice Department accused Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday of abusing its dominance in digital advertising, threatening to dismantle a key business at the heart of one of Silicon Valley’s most successful internet companies. The government said Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite, tackling a …

Three people were killed in a shooting at a convenience store in central Washington state early Tuesday, police said, and the suspect has died after an hours-long manhunt. Police were called to a Circle K in Yakima, Washington, about 3:30 a.m. when three people, who have not been identified, were …

Labour leader Chris Hipkins was sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister in a formal ceremony on Wednesday, following the resignation of outgoing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern last week. The Labour party elected former Covid-19 Response and Police minister Hipkins, 44, to lead the party and the country on Sunday. …

After eight years, the downtown area of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has a new look thanks to the removal of the construction site for an underground metro station in front of Ben Thanh Market. Nguyen, 55, the owner of a souvenir shop on Le Loi Street, fixed up his …

On three days of the Lunar New Year holiday from Saturday to Monday there were almost 11,500 road accidents that claimed 128 lives. The Department of Medical Examination and Treatment said during the three days, the number of patients hospitalized after accidents increased slightly from last year but the number …

Seven people were killed in a mass shooting at two locations in the coastal northern California city of Half Moon Bay on Monday, and the suspect was later taken into custody after driving to a police parking lot, officials said. Half Moon Bay is about 30 miles (50 km) south …