Intel Corp is considering a significant increase in its existing $1.5-billion investment in Vietnam to expand its chip testing and packaging plant in the Southeast Asian nation, two sources familiar …
On This Day: 4 photojournalists die in Vietnam War helicopter crash
On Feb. 10, 1971, four photojournalists died after the South Vietnamese air force helicopter they were in was shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Vietnam’s Anti-Graft Campaign Is Not a Factional Purge
Several high-profile resignations following corruption scandals from early in the COVID-19 pandemic have rocked Vietnam’s politics.
Soccer-Former Japan coach Zaccheroni in intensive care after fall -report
Former Japan and AC Milan manager Alberto Zaccheroni has been taken to an intensive care unit after suffering a head injury at his home in Italy, newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport said on …
Japan expected to name Kazuo Ueda as next central bank head
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Bank of Japan news every morning. Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida is likely to nominate as the next central bank governor Kazuo …
Bangladesh dispatches humanitarian aid to quake-hit Syria
Bangladesh has sent humanitarian aid and medicines for the earthquake victims in Syria, the government said on Saturday. An air force cargo plane carrying tents, blankets, warm cloths, dried foods and …
Pakistan’s breaking of taboo shows ex-dictator Pervez Musharraf was hated to the end
In Pakistan, it is taboo to speak ill of the dead. So much so, that politicians who have spent most of their careers cursing a rival for being everything from a blasphemer to a traitor, will praise them to the heavens once they are dead – especially if they are assassinated,
China cranking up political espionage, German official tells newspaper
The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency fears that China is expanding its spy activities against Berlin, he said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, adding that Beijing was focusing increasingly on political espionage.
ChatGPT frenzy sweeps China as firms scramble for home-grown options
HONG KONG, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Microsoft-backed OpenAI has kept its hit ChatGPT app off-limits to users in China, but the app is attracting huge interest in the country, with firms rushing to integrate the technology into their products and launch rival …
China’s censored feminist movement finds solace in Sally Rooney
Rooney is among a number of successful western authors who have found a growing audience in China’s restless younger generation