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France’s privacy watchdog said Thursday it has fined US tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros ($64 million) for foisting advertising cookies on users. In the largest fine imposed in 2022, the National Commission for Technology and Freedoms (CNIL) said Microsoft’s search engine Bing had not set up a system allowing …

Eleven women, one as young as 14, who were forced into sex work by a husband-wife business couple, were rescued by the police in HCMC’s District 12. The police raided a hotel owned by Le Thanh Doan, 36, and Le Thi Hue, 32, where they found the girls being guarded …

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried left the Bahamas on Wednesday on an aircraft bound to the United States, according to a person familiar with the matter and a Reuters witness who saw the plane take off. Bankman-Fried earlier on Wednesday consented at a Bahamas courthouse to be extradited to the United …

Another wave of layoffs are coming at electric-car maker Tesla Inc in the next quarter, news website Electrek reported on Wednesday, citing a source familiar with the matter. Tesla is also going to freeze hiring, according to the report. The company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for …

A group of 20 Vietnamese students and trainees in Japan have formed a labor union to help other compatriots in the country. Nguyen Van Bao, 24, deputy head of the managing committee of the Tomoiki Union, said there are many Vietnamese in Japan who cannot speak Japanese and have no …

The Central Inspection Committee has proposed that the Politburo and the Party Central Committee Secretariat discipline the Minister of Foreign Affairs for his misconduct in the Covid-19 repatriation flight scandal. It recommended disciplinary action against the ministry’s Party Civil Affairs Committee in the terms of 2016-2021 and 2021-2026, and former …

The Central Inspection Committee has proposed that the Politburo and the Party Central Committee Secretariat discipline the Minister of Foreign Affairs for his misconduct in the Covid-19 repatriation flight scandal. It recommended disciplinary action against the ministry’s Party Civil Affairs Committee in the terms of 2016-2021 and 2021-2026, and former …

Several foreign businesses find it difficult to purchase carbon credits from Vietnam due to a lack of clear legal frameworks. On the sidelines of a conference on Tuesday, Pham Thu Thuy, director of the Climate Change, Energy and Low-Carbon Development team at the Center for International Forestry Research and World …

A land lot spanning 3,500 m2 near HCMC’s Tan Son Nhat airport will become a parking lot during Tet, when the airport is expected to receive more than 120,000 visitors a day. Tran Quang Lam, director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport, said on Tuesday that the …

A proposal to bar federal employees from using Chinese app TikTok on government devices appeared set to become law, threatening to deal a blow to the company’s reputation and scare off advertisers even if it will not affect many users, experts said. U.S. lawmakers early on Tuesday included the proposal …