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People living in northern Vietnam’s mountainous regions have been warned to prepare for possible evacuations amid erosion and flooding risks as tropical storm Chaba approaches. The storm, the first one to appear in the East Sea this year, was around 310 km to the east-southeast of China’s Hainan Island and …

Global social media platforms, especially Facebook, have persistently ignored prevention of toxic information being spread among Vietnamese users, a top information official said. Luu Dinh Phuc, head of the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information under the Ministry of Communications and Information, said international social networks have committed to the …

Chief prosecutor Le Minh Tri has suggested that errant officials should be required to set right the consequences of their corruption rather than face prosecution right away. At a conference held to review 10 years of the anti-corruption campaign in Hanoi on Thursday, the head of the Supreme People’s Procuracy …

Fifteen Black former or current employees at Tesla filed a lawsuit against the electric car maker on Thursday, alleging they were subjected to racial abuse and harassment at its factories. The workers said they were subjected to offensive racist comments and behavior by colleagues, managers, and human resources employees on …

Asia’s manufacturing activity stalled in June as many companies were hit by supply disruptions caused by China’s strict Covid-19 lockdowns. Sharp economic slowdown risks in Europe and the United States also reinforced fears of a global recession. A string of surveys on Friday showed China’s factory activity bouncing solidly in …

Vietnam handed over two sets of remains suspected to belong to American soldiers who died in the Vietnam War to U.S. representatives on Thursday. The Vietnamese Office for Seeking Missing Persons held a handover ceremony in Da Nang City attended by officials from the U.S. embassy and the U.S. office …

Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc has cut plans to hire engineers by at least 30% this year, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned employees to brace for a deep economic downturn. “If I had to bet, I’d say that this might be one of the worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent …

Google has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a legal fight with app developers over the money they earned creating apps for Android smartphones, according to a court filing. The app developers, in a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, had accused Google of using agreements with …

Bitcoin dropped 6.1 percent to $18,866.77 at 2004 GMT on Thursday, putting the biggest and best-known cryptocurrency down $1,226.41 from its previous close It’s also down 60.9 percent from the year’s high of $48,234 on March 28. Several big players in the cryptocurrency markets have had difficulties, and further declines …

French police are holding 10 people suspected of involvement in the November 20 Channel drowning of migrants in which 27 people died, including one Vietnamese, a judicial source said Thursday. One has been charged with manslaughter and people-trafficking, and the nine others were to be taken before a judge who …