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Three months after being arrested for posting videos of herself performing motorbike stunts on social media, model Tran Thi Ngoc Trinh appeared in a HCMC court Friday. The HCMC People’s Court will try the 35-year-old for the crime of “disrupting public order,” which carries a sentence of two to seven …

Heavy fog over Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport on Friday morning caused at least 18 flights to delay taking off or land at a different airport. A representative of the international airport said thick fog and low clouds have affected pilots’ visibility. Six domestic flights to Noi Bai had to land …

HCMC will launch fireworks for Lunar New Year’s Eve on Feb. 10 in three additional locations in Districts 7, Binh Tan and Cu Chi. Tran The Thuan, director of the HCMC Department of Culture and Sports, on Thursday said the firework shows would last 15 minutes, with funding from multiple …

Netflix is betting on its ambitious new sci-fi series from the creators of “Game of Thrones” to help extend its streaming dominance in 2024, as the company unveiled a sprawling TV and film lineup Thursday. “3 Body Problem,” out March 21, is adapted from a bestselling Chinese trilogy of novels …

A truck carrying around 400 crocodiles, weighing a total of 5 tons, was found in a southern Dong Thap Province area near the border with Cambodia. The police of Dong Thap have launched an investigation into violations against regulations on management and protection of endangered, rare animals. The truck, driven …

Five football players of the Ba Ria-Vung Tau Club, competing in V-League 2, have been accused of match fixing for online gambling. Police of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Thursday said the players, aged 20-30, were being investigated for gambling. An investigation revealed that in a match between the Ba Ria-Vung …

A HCMC court has overturned a man’s demand for custody of his son, saying his concerns about the boy’s Vietnamese illiteracy from living with a foreign step-father and studying at an international school is “unfounded.” An appeal trial at the HCMC People’s Court on Wednesday accepted the prosecutors’ appeal and …

Alec Baldwin has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges over the death of a young woman who was fatally shot on the set of a budget Western, U.S. court documents showed Wednesday. Baldwin, a producer and star of the film, was charged last month for his role in the 2021 …

A simple hangout spot for young people when it arrived on the scene 20 years ago, Facebook has since become a battle-hardened behemoth with an insatiable appetite for your attention. “I will never forget the day that I ran up to my high school’s Mac lab and signed up for …

Around 10,000 people from the north-central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh have been lining up over the last five days to sign up for work in South Korea. Tuesday was the deadline for workers in Nghe An to sign up for the Employment Permit System (EPS), which could …