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Publishers on Nguyen Van Binh Book Street sold 760,000 books last year at VND60 billion, 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 events …

A court in HCMC handed jail terms to four men 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, …

Denim giant Levi Strauss & Co. said Thursday that it’s slashing its global corporate workforce by 10% to 15% in the first half of the year as part of a two-year restructuring plan that seeks to cut costs and simplify its operations. The company employed about 19,100 people as of …

The crowning of Ukrainian-born model Karolina Shiino as the winner of the Miss Japan contest this week has triggered a social media debate on what it means to be, and look, Japanese. The 26-year-old model, who was born in Ukraine and looks Caucasian, has lived in Japan for more than …

Vietnam recorded 82 deaths from rabies last year, 12 more than in 2022, and 500,000 people were vaccinated after exposure to the virus. The most deaths were in Gia Lai (14), Nghe An (7), Binh Phuoc (7), Dien Bien (6), and Ben Tre (5) provinces. In most cases, the reason …

The management board of a Hanoi apartment building has asked authorities and the police for help to handle more than 200 motorbikes abandoned at its basement for years. For nearly a month, the board of HH Linh Dam apartment building in Hoang Mai District has had to move hundreds of …

Researchers say a rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that they say might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies. The experiment was conducted with the less endangered southern white rhino subspecies. Researchers created an embryo …

The Pokemon Company warned on Thursday it plans to investigate reports that the new hit video game “Palworld” violates the intellectual copyright of its iconic franchise. Widely described as “Pokemon with Guns” when it was released last week, the makers of “Palworld” said it sold more than eight million copies …

A possible hitman killed at least one person when he shot three members of a family and burned their house down, allegedly over bad debts, in southern Vietnam. Pham Quoc Huy, 50, allegedly rode a motorbike from Ho Chi Minh City-adjacent Dong Nai Province to 60-year-old Ho Vu Binh’s house …