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By Quoc Thang  &nbspAugust 19, 2018 | 02:10 pm GMT+7 Lam Cam Loan (L) and Nguyen Thi Gioi are held at a police station for pickpocketing from a group of foreign tourists. Photo by VnExpress/Quoc Thang Police have detained two women caught pickpocketing a group of foreign tourists in downtown Saigon. During a patrol on Friday night, police officers spotted and followed the women who were loitering suspiciously in front of the Saigon General Hospital near Ben Thanh Market in District 1. They pounced on the women after they stole an iPhone from a Belgian tourist. Police said the women pretended to collide with the group of foreign tourists walking towards the Ben Thanh Market and one of the two quickly picked up the phone from the Belgian woman's handbag. The phone has been returned to the owner, police said. The two suspects, Nguyen Thi Gioi, 57, and Lam Cam Loan, 45, have carried out numerous petty thefts targeting foreign tourists, and are on the the police’s … [Read more...] about Saigon police nab two women picking pockets of foreign tourists

By Hai Binh  &nbspAugust 19, 2018 | 11:13 am GMT+7 Roads, schools and other public spaces in Muong Xen Town, Nghe An Province are clogged with thick mud. On Saturday, although the floodwaters triggered by storm Bebinca started receding, many roads leading to Muong Xen, a mountainous town in Ky Son District near the Laos border in Nghe An Province, were still submerged in muddy waters and sludge. Soldiers clear sludge from a primary school in the town, just 10 meters away from a river. Soldiers and civilian volunteers work with local residents to remove mud from inside the schoolyard so that students can get back to classes soon. Vietnamese new school year will technically start next week. A bulldozer is deployed to remove mud left by the flash floods. Tables and chairs covered in sludge are stacked, to be cleaned later.  Flood waters rose two meters high in this room and cleaning it up is not going to be easy. Text books were moved to the second … [Read more...] about Central Vietnam province struggles to clear mud left by flash floods

By Huu Nguyen  &nbspAugust 19, 2018 | 12:18 pm GMT+7 Trash clogs the Hy Vong Canal outside Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo by VnExpress/Huu Nguyen Municipal agency says preventing flooding at the Tan Son Nhat Airport is an “urgent and vital” task. The Ho Chi Minh City Urban Flood Control Steering Center has asked the municipal administration to allocate VND150 billion ($6.7 million) from the city budget for upgrading the Hy Vong Canal in Tan Binh District, which lies to the city's northwest and home to the country's largest airport. It has also asked the Department of Transport to speed up finalization of procedures for the channel upgrade project. The Hy Vong Canal upgrade project was originally approved by HCMC authorities in 2013. In 2014, the project received funding from the World Bank as part of a bigger flooding management project for HCMC as a whole. The Hy Vong Canal upgrade was expected to cost VND110 billion. However, the World … [Read more...] about HCMC urged to spend $6.7mln to prevent airport flooding

The seven-member K-pop sensation will perform at New York City's Citi Field Stadium on Oct. 6 as part of its world tour of 16 countries, including Canada, Britain, Germany and France. The band will begin the tour with local concerts in Seoul slated for Aug. 25-26. BTS will become the first South Korean singers to hold a solo concert at the home ballpark of the New York Mets. Also as of Saturday, the music video for BTS' "Fire" had been watched over 414 million times on YouTube, becoming the band's second video to reach the 400 million-view milestone. The video was uploaded on May 1, 2016. "Fire" is the lead track off BTS' "Epilogue: Young Forever" album. It ranked No. 3 on YouTube's 2016 list for the world's most-viewed K-pop music videos. By the Yonhap. Tags: K-pop music video BTS's first concert in US … [Read more...] about Tickets to BTS’ first concert in U.S. sell out

Annan -- who had led the United Nations from 1997 to 2006 -- was announced dead earlier in the day. He and the organization were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 "Annan will always be remembered and respected for his vision and courage to keep the principle and idea of the United Nations," Ban said in a press release. Ban further said he offers deep condolences to Annan's wife and family, as well as all of his former colleagues at the U.N. Source from the Yonhap. Tags: Former U.U secretary general Ban Ki-moon Kofi Annan death Nobel … [Read more...] about Ban offers condolences after Annan’s death

Robots that can diagnose diseases, play badminton and wow audiences with their musical skills are among the machines being exhibited in Beijing, offering a glimpse of an automated future. The popular stars of this year's World Robot Conference, which ends Sunday, were undoubtedly the small, amateur-made "battle bots" which smashed, hammered and sawed their way through their opponents to a cacophony of cheers and shouts from a rapt audience. "With this robot, I can fully express myself. I love the sparks," said Huang Hongsong, one of around a dozen Chinese youths whose creations went head-to-head. But while the battle bots are designed largely to entertain onlookers, China is deadly serious about riding the robotic wave with an eye on its economy. Cheap manufacturing propelled the populous giant to become the world's second largest economy in just a few decades. But the country's population is ageing, leaving it facing a double whammy of a worker shortage and increased labour costs as … [Read more...] about Robot wars: China shows off automated doctors, teachers and combat stars

They see it as a bad signal for the global economy. The red metal has acquired the sobriquet Doctor Copper for its ability to take the temperature of the world economy. Why trust Dr Copper? Doctor Copper is able to tell when the world economy is going to get sick or get better because of the ubiquity of copper in the modern copper. It is used in plumbing, heating, electrical and telecommunications wiring. "Trains, planes and automobiles are full of copper, so too are homes and appliances," said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell. So, it is hard to imagine economic growth without copper, and the market price of the metal reflects fluctuations in demand. Economists at the Bank of England who monitor the global growth to set monetary policy said on their blog that for them it "is crucial to assess what is happening in the world economy in real time or 'nowcast' economic activity." Copper prices provide such a real time signal. How good are his diagnoses? Last year's acceleration … [Read more...] about Hammering of copper price a worrying signal for global growth

By Hai Binh  &nbspAugust 19, 2018 | 11:13 am GMT+7 Nghe An in north central Vietnam is trying to get rid of mud half a meter thick from roads, schools and offices.  Floodwaters triggered by storm Bebinca receded late on Saturday, leaving Muong Xen, a mountainous town in Kỵ Son District near the Laos border, in muddy waters and sludge. A primary school yard, which is 10 meters from a river, is all covered up in mud. Soldiers and volunteers rake the mud at the school so that students can get back to classes soon. Vietnamese new school year will technically start next week. A bulldozer helps with the clean-up operation. Tables, chairs and school equipment are covered in sludge. This archive room at the school was flooded by two meters and it’s no easy task to clean the mess. Storm Bebinca weakened into a tropical depression as it made landfall in north central Vietnam early on Friday morning, yet Nghe An and its neighbor Thanh Hoa … [Read more...] about Vietnam province struggles to clear messes left by flash floods