
World May 11, 2022
Russia downed satellite internet in Ukraine, Western officials say
Russia was behind a massive cyberattack that took tens of thousands of modems offline at the onset of Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. and other countries have said.
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Russia was behind a massive cyberattack that took tens of thousands of modems offline at the onset of Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. and other countries have said.
The claims targeted English-speaking audiences in the United States and Britain and Chinese-speaking audiences in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Tibet.
Force 47 soldiers are tasked with setting up, moderating and posting on pro-state Facebook groups, to correct "wrong views" online.
A recent arrival on the automotive scene and the No. 5 car brand in Vietnam, VinFast is not short on ambition.
The country has seen a record number of political prisoners, longer jail terms, and increased harassment of activists in recent years.
A new front has opened in the U.S.-China trade war as companies shifting manufacturing to Vietnam engage in a fierce battle for skilled labor, aggravating an existing shortage and prompting calls for education reforms to address the problem. Vietnam has emerged as one of the ...
A young couple with matching expressions stare nervously into the camera with deep brown eyes. He, a Vietnamese student, has just met the love of his life. She, a North Korean, is forbidden to love him back. It was 31 years after Pham Ngoc Canh, ...
Nestled in a leafy park between a rusting Soviet fighter jet and the old East German Embassy, a lonely statue of Lenin stands in the center of Hanoi as a symbol of the Russian revolutionary's inspiration to communist-ruled Vietnam. Yet in 1986, one year after ...
Some oil blocks off Vietnam's sprawling coastline fall within an area of the South China Sea demarcated by China's "nine-dash line," the basis for Beijing's controversial claims to most of the resource-rich waterway. Last week, sources said Rosneft Vietnam BV, a unit of Russian state ...
It wasn't until Pham Chi Cuong saw the plane waiting to deport him from the United States that it sunk in that he was about to be sent back to Vietnam, the country he fled in 1993. Cuong and at least three other deportees who ...