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HCMC police detained seven employees of a local spa on Friday for illegally offering penis lengthening services, detaining, and extorting customers, following multiple complaints and a mid-July raid. The employees, four women and three men, of the Gyeongbok spa on Vo Thi Sau Street in District 3 in the city’s …

Barack Obama pledged support for Kamala Harris on Friday, filling the last major gap in her bid to unite Democrats around her dramatic presidential election run, while Donald Trump announced he will revisit the scene of his near-assassination. Vice President Kamala Harris and Former President Barack Obama attend an event …

Japan’s total population declined for the 15th straight year in 2023, dropping by more than a half-million people as the population ages and births remain low. A person walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in …

The death toll from the severe flooding and landslides triggered by the southwest monsoon enhanced by Typhoon Gaemi has risen to 33, the Philippine police said on Friday. Eleven people died in the Philippine capital region, Manila, and 12 in the Calabarzon region, and 10 from Central Luzon, including the …

A bank employee in HCMC who allegedly hired Cambodian criminals to hack into a customer’s account and steal VND8 billion (US$316,170) has been arrested. Luong Hoang Gia, 33, and Cambodian accomplice Tan Cheng Khung, 37, were taken in by the Go Vap District police on Friday for “appropriation of property …

Businesses in HCMC face recruitment challenges with people increasingly preferring flexible and freelance jobs over traditional full-time positions, reshaping the labor market dynamics. Thuy Duong, 36, was previously a team leader at a media company with its office in District 3. She quit her job at the beginning of this …

Public order officers in Bali have seized hundreds of dog skewers and dozens of kilograms of raw dog meat on the Indonesian resort island where the trade is illegal, officials said. The tourist hotspot banned the dog meat trade last year, with offenders facing up to three months in prison …

Flash floods and landslides triggered by tropical storm Prapiroon have killed at least 10 people and left 9 missing this week in northern Vietnam, the government’s disaster management agency said on Friday. The storm that made landfall in Quang Ninh Province on Tuesday has brought torrential rains to most of …

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was rested eternally at the Mai Dich Cemetery in Hanoi on Friday afternoon, surrounded by his family and Party and state leaders.     Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong laid to rest in Hanoi Live Lễ truy điệu Tổng Bí thư Nguyễn Phú …

Democratic presidential candidate KamalaHarrisis performing better than President Joe Biden in battleground states likely to decide the Nov. 5 election, narrowing the gap with Republican Donald Trump, according to an Emerson College/The Hill poll released on Thursday. The poll showed former President Trump leading in four of the critical states: …