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Musicians and critics alike have long accused Grammy voters of ignoring the work of female artists but this year, it’s highly probable that women will take home the night’s top prizes. At Sunday’s gala, seven of eight of nominees in the Album and Record of the Year categories are women …

A man in Ho Chi Minh City has been accused of facilitating the prostitution of Vietnamese singers, supermodels, and actors via seven online groups totaling 66,000 members. Nguyen Huu Thai, 25, was detained by HCMC police on Wednesday to be investigated for procurement. After finishing a jail sentence for storing …

Vietnam plans to invest in two to four more international telecommunications cable, with data capacity of 60 Tbps, by 2025. The new cables, outlined in a plan for information and communication infrastructure development for 2021-2030, will ensure that the telecommunications network have high speed and bandwidth, widely available and serve …

Three men were sentenced to life imprisonment for their involvement in a shooting over land dispute that killed two people and severely injured four others on Phu Quoc Island. A court in the southern Kien Giang Province on Wednesday sentenced Doan Thien Long, 23, and Nguyen Van Thai, 36, and Bui Duc Ngoc, 32, for “murder” …

The Communist Party’s Central Committee has dismissed Tran Tuan Anh, chairman of the Party’s Economic Commission, from his position as a Politburo member upon personal request. The committee also approved Anh’s request to stop serving as a member of the Party’s Central Committee’s 13th tenure, according to a statement from …

HCMC has tasked the Department of Education and Training to work with Apax Leaders, demanding the fulfillment of their commitment to repay tuition fees owed to parents. Last week, the office of the HCMC People’s Committee issued a notification of conclusions drawn by vice chairman Duong Anh Duc regarding the …

The billionaire sultan who rules Malaysia’s Johor state was sworn in as the nation’s new king Wednesday under a unique rotating monarchy system. Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, 65, took his oath of office at the palace and signed the instrument of the proclamation of office in a ceremony witnessed by other …

Britain and France will step up efforts to halt crossings of the English Channel by migrants in small boats, Britain’s interior minister said on Tuesday, after figures showed over 1,000 people had made the crossing so far this month. British Home Secretary James Cleverly held talks in Paris with French …

Even by Alaska standards, there is a lot of snow this winter. So much snow has fallen — so far, more than 8.7 feet (2.65 meters) — that roofs on commercial buildings are collapsing around Anchorage and officials are urging residents to break out their shovels to avoid a similar …

A Thai court will on Wednesday rule on whether an opposition party plan to amend a law against insulting the monarchy is unconstitutional, in what could set a precedent for future moves to change one of the world’s strictest lese majeste laws. Move Forward, the biggest party in parliament, won …