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A jury in New York ordered former U.S. president and 2024 candidate Donald Trump on Friday to pay $83.3 million to compensate the writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he was found to have sexually assaulted and defamed. The civil order, which prompted an audible gasp in the federal court, far …

The Ministry of Finance is tasked with studying and proposing authorities to reallocate the remaining funds of the Covid-19 vaccine fund to rebuild houses for the poor, as directed by the prime minister. Chairing a government meeting on Thursday, PM Pham Minh Chinh emphasized the need for state agencies to …

Temperatures in northern Vietnam will begin to rise starting Saturday, but average daytime temperatures will still be below 13 degrees Celsius. On the fifth day of a severe cold wave that has been assaulting northern Vietnam, temperatures in the region have increased by 1-2 degrees on Friday compared to the …

Northern Vietnam’s temperatures will begin to rise starting Saturday, but average daytime temperatures will still be below 13 degrees Celsius. On the fifth day of a severe cold wave that has been assaulting northern Vietnam, temperatures in the region have increased by 1-2 degrees compared to the coldest day of …

A driver in northern Bac Giang Province rammed into a traffic police officer on a motorbike before trying to escape as he was requested to stop for alcohol level check. A patrol team of 20 police officers were checking alcohol level violations on a section of provincial road 294 in …

HCMC has recommended the elderly, pregnant and those with underlying conditions get full doses of Covid-19 vaccines as the threat of a new variant looms. Le Hong Nga, vice director of the HCMC Center for Disease Control (HCDC), said Thursday there had been no evidence to show that the Covid-19 …

Publishers on Nguyen Van Binh Book Street sold 760,000 books last year at VND60 billion (US$2,400), up 15% in revenue against 2022, but its manager said more activities were needed to lure foreign visitors. Le Hoang, director of Ho Chi Minh City Book Street Co. Ltd., said last year, 275 …

A court in HCMC handed jail terms to four people bringing US$538,000 in counterfeit money to a bank to exchange, successfully swapping around half of it for Vietnamese notes. Pham Hung Tuan, 34, Néang Sóc Rane, 37, a Khmer woman, Do Van Trung, 47, and Nguyen Bao Duy, 28, were …

The cost of the damage wreaked by a huge New Year’s Day earthquake that killed at least 236 people in central Japan could reach $17.6 billion, a government official said Friday. The magnitude-7.5 earthquake and its aftershocks devastated parts of Ishikawa prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast, toppling buildings, …

A Singapore court sentenced a South African man to two years in jail on Friday for smuggling rhino horns, the heaviest sentence ever handed down in the city-state for smuggling wildlife parts. Gumede Sthembiso Joel was arrested at Singapore’s Changi airport in 2022 after authorities found 20 rhino horns weighing …