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Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah was named the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) Player of the Year for the second time on Thursday and Chelsea’s Sam Kerr took the women’s award. Salah, who shared this season’s Premier League golden boot for the top scorer with Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min, also won the …

A dearth of IPOs, plunge in stock prices and slowing economic growth are clouding revenue of global investment banks after spending by governments and central banks fueled a blockbuster 2021. Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine and significant monetary tightening have led to volatile trading in financial markets this year. While …

Hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses remain unclaimed across Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam as people no longer fear Covid-19. In Vinh Long Province, almost 779,000 people aged from 18, or 99.8 percent of the province’s adult population, have been administered their second Covid-19 vaccine shot. But by Thursday, only …

Three Vietnamese schools have made it into the Quacquarelli Symonds rankings of top 1,000 universities for 2023. Duy Tan University in Da Nang City and Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi are placed in the 801-1,000 band in the rankings compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a …

The five provinces in the Central Highlands, home to coffee and other high-value crops, set up an innovation cluster Friday to link researchers and farmers and improve local agriculture. The Central Highlands’ Regional Innovation Cluster, set up with assistance from the Australian Government’s Aus4Innovation program, will serve as a forum …

Thailand legalized the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks on Thursday, the first Asian country to do so, but smoking pot is still against the law. Shoppers queued up at outlets selling cannabis-infused drinks, sweets and other items as advocates of the plant welcomed the reform …

China’s factory-gate inflation cooled to its slowest pace in 14 months in May, depressed by weak demand for steel, aluminium and other key industrial commodities due to tight Covid-19 curbs. The producer price index (PPI) rose 6.4% year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a statement, after the …

A gunman opened fire on his co-workers at a manufacturing facility in northern Maryland Thursday, killing at least three people and critically wounding a fourth before being taken into custody. The 23-year-old assailant, who was not identified by police, was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with a Maryland state …

Vietnam was hit by 5,463 cyberattacks in the first five months of this year, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications. The report by the ministry’s Authority of Information Security says 930 were Phishing, the type of attack that attempts to steal money or identity, by getting a person …

A 34-year-old Hanoian man has been summoned for questioning by Hoang Mai District police for assaulting a four-year-girl in a bookstore’s play area Tuesday night. Security camera footage shows Vu Trong Dam repeatedly slapping and kicking the girl in a bookstore in the Linh Dam urban area, police said. The …