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Major Le Ngoc Tuan, an officer stationed at the Long Binh border gate, said authorities have taken in the 35 men and five women but have yet to verify their identities. They claimed to be among 42 people who escaped from a casino in Cambodia's Kandal Province and tried to swam across the Binh Di River, but one had been swept away and another had been caught by the casino owners. 40 people swim to Vietnam after escaping from Cambodian casino Vid casino They said they went to Cambodia and worked at several casinos on online games, but had been overworked and not given pay or rest, and so decided to illegally cross the border into Vietnam. Authorities are investigating. Many Vietnamese are tricked into going to Cambodia to work for casinos and other similar places where they are often exploited. If they want to return to Vietnam, they have to pay the casinos up to US$30,000, authorities said. In the first half of this year, Vietnamese and … [Read more...] about 40 people swim to Vietnam after escaping from Cambodian casino

"'Million Dollar Boy' merges the artist’s affinity for music and fashion with a dreamy and eccentric music video," the publication wrote. His video also featured many local upcoming rappers and 16 Typh surrounded by diamonds and other precious jewels, it stated. The video has raked in over 1.16 million views as well as 50,000 likes and over 3,000 comments on YouTube after its release on Aug. 15. This is the rapper's second track after debuting in Vietnam’s biggest hip hop crew, SpaceSpeakers. Dropped on Aug. 4, the music video for "Luat Rung" (Law Of The Jungle) currently boasts over 2.3 million YouTube views. 16 Typh, real name Pham Hoang Hai, is a 28-year-old rapper from northern Hai Phong City. He rose to fame after participating in the first season of Rap Viet, a reality show that seeks to unearth talented rappers. However, he was outed after the 11th episode. … [Read more...] about American hip hop publication praises Vietnamese rapper’s MV

When the woman’s family asked Thanh why he did not come himself, she told them, "He was embarrassed since the two had never met before." Someone from the family laughed and said: "How can I let my kid date him if he is more than 30 years old and still asks his mother to get him phone numbers from other women?" The 65-year-old was speechless and returned home. Her son, Minh Tien, had brought home and introduced a few girlfriends to her in the past, but no one had interested her too much. She admits her son is lazy and worries she will not be able to take care of both of them if he ends up marrying a woman who is also lazy or only cares about her looks. She likes the woman she went to meet for her hard-working nature and dedication to family, and believes someone like that will change her son’s personality. Tien, the only son in a family of four children, was always pampered by his parents and sisters. Thanh even bribed teachers when he could not pass tests at school. When … [Read more...] about ‘Parasite’ adult children worry sociologists

The national 'yellow alert', issued late on Thursday, comes after regions from Sichuan in the southwest to Shanghai in the Yangtze delta have experienced weeks of extreme heat, with government officials repeatedly citing global climate change as the cause. The alert is two notches short of the most serious warning on Beijing's scale. In one of the Yangtze's important flood basins in central China's Jiangxi province, the Poyang Lake has now shrunk to a quarter of its normal size for this time of year, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. As many as 66 rivers across 34 counties in the southwestern region of Chongqing have dried up, state broadcaster CCTV said on Friday. Rainfall in Chongqing this year is down 60% compared to the seasonal norm, and the soil in several districts is severely short of moisture, CCTV said, citing local government data. The district of Beibei, north of Chongqing's urban centre, saw temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) on … [Read more...] about China issues first national drought alert, battles to save crops in extreme heatwave

Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency. - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has called for work to be accelerated to perfect the Party and political systems, socio-economic management, and the fight against corruption and negative behaviours. Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA) Chairing the 22nd meeting of the central steering committee for corruption and behaviour prevention and control in Hanoi on August 17, Trong also requested the submission of regulations regarding power control to the Politburo for approval towards fighting corruption in inspection, supervision, Party discipline enforcement, audit, investigation, prosecution, trial and enforcement of judgments, law-building, use and management of public finances and assets, and press and media activities. Read full story - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said that Vietnam wants to cooperate with Israel in … [Read more...] about ☀️ Morning digest on August 18

Indian rates for rice exports rose this week as lower planting fuelled concerns over supplies from the new season, while Vietnamese prices and quality of the grain lagged peers. Top exporter India's 5% broken parboiled variety <RI-INBKN5-P1> was quoted at $365-$371 per tonne, up from last week's $360-$366. "Weather is not supporting crop in eastern and northern India. Traders have started quoting higher prices for paddy assuming lower production from the new crop," said an exporter based at Kakinada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Neighbouring Bangladesh will begin selling rice at a cheaper rate for 5 million poor families and expand such sales from September, in a bid to rein in soaring domestic prices, which saw yet another uptick after the government hiked domestic oil prices. "I hope domestic rice markets will be stable after the beginning of the sales," Bangladesh Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder said, adding that the country has adequate stock. … [Read more...] about Asia rice – Supply concerns lift Indian rates; Vietnam loses out to competition