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Vietnam drew US$38.06 billion in registered foreign direct investment (FDI) during the first seven months of 2026, up 58% year-on-year,…
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South Korea has proposed property tax changes that would impose higher duties on wealthy homeowners to stabilize a red-hot housing…
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Vietnam recorded 111,015 cancer deaths a year, an average of one roughly every five minutes, according to global estimates published…
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Police in Da Nang have arrested five motorbike taxi drivers accused of robbing two Danish tourists of about US$21 in…
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Salamanca City Central School District paid $57,590 for a Realbotix M-Series humanoid robot and AI program that was meant to…
Read MoreMalaysian tycoon Jeffrey Cheah’s Sunway Construction wins $249M Johor data center job
Sunway Construction Group (SunCon), part of tycoon Jeffrey Cheah’s Sunway conglomerate, has secured a RM1.02 billion (US$249 million) engineering contract…
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