Some Twitter employees were engaged in a company-wide planning process for next year when their phones began buzzing with news that Elon Musk reverses bid to buy the company. This time, the deal was on. The plans they were in the middle of presenting? Perhaps not. One employee described a …
Read More »Gov’t seeks to extend autonomy pilot for HCMC
A special mechanism that grants Ho Chi Minh City greater autonomy should be trialed another year for better evaluation, the government said. In a report to the National Assembly (NA) on Tuesday, the government said the pilot period to apply the special mechanism for the southern metropolis should be extended …
Read More »Nobel prize goes to pioneers of molecule-building ‘click chemistry’
Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering reactions that let molecular building blocks snap together to create new desired compounds. The technologies known as click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry are now used globally to explore cells and track biological processes, …
Read More »Worker dies after scaffolding collapses in southern Vietnam
A construction worker in the southern Vinh Long Province died Wednesday after the scaffolding of a cultural center, on which he was standing, collapsed. The 18-year-old worker and other builders were working on the cultural, sport and broadcasting center for Binh Minh Town at around 10 a.m. As the scaffolding …
Read More »Two 340-kg bombs found meters away from central Vietnam highway
Two M117 bombs, each weighing 340 kilograms, were found just 270 meters from a highway in central Vietnam’s Quang Tri Province. Personnel of the PeaceTrees Vietnam organization, which addresses the legacy of war by removing dangerous explosives, found the bombs in a rubber tree garden of Nam Hieu 2 Village, …
Read More »Hanoi metro becoming increasingly popular
People are increasingly using the Hanoi metro, with 31,020 traveling by it on Monday, the highest number recorded on a weekday. Since last month, when there was a spurt in the number of users, the company has added two more trains and increased the frequency during rush hour to once …
Read More »HCMC health department peeved with medical workers refusing Covid shot for their children
HCMC health authorities are hoping to change the minds of 579 medical workers who have refused to get their children studying in schools in District 1 vaccinated against Covid-19. The Department of Health has asked the Department of Education for the list of children. Nguyen Huu Hung, deputy director of …
Read More »US job openings drop sharply, labor market starting to loosen
U.S. job openings fell by the most in nearly 2-1/2 years in August, suggesting that the labor market was starting to cool as the economy grapples with higher interest rates. Despite the fifth month of decreases in job openings this year reported by the Labor Department in its Job Openings …
Read More »South Korea, US fire missiles into the sea to protest ‘reckless’ North Korea test
South Korea and U.S. military conducted missile drills in response to North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile over Japan, as Washington condemned Pyongyang’s longest-range test as “dangerous and reckless.” Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) farther than ever before on Tuesday, sending it soaring over Japan …
Read More »Musk reverses course, again: he’s ready to buy Twitter, build ‘X’ app
Billionaire Elon Musk is proposing to proceed with his original $44 billion bid to take Twitter Inc private, security filings showed on Tuesday. An agreement would put the world’s richest person in charge of one of the most influential media platforms and end months of litigation that damaged Twitter’s brand …
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