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For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world's oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.The latest record-breaking in this climate change-fuelled global hot streak includes sea surface temperatures that weren't just the hottest for February, but eclipsed any month on record, soaring past August 2023's mark and still rising at the end of the month.And February, as well the previous two…

When Samsung announced the high-capacity Portable T5 EVO SSD in November, the storage solutions went on sale in numerous across Asia, Europe, and North America. Nevertheless, some markets lagged behind and did not offer the T5 EVO SSD at that time. Now, they're catching up. Today, Samsung announced the release of the Portable T5 EVO SSD in Vietnam. The storage drive will be available in three configurations with 2TB, 4TB, and of course, 8TB. As of this writing, the Portable T5 EVO SSD is listed on Samsung's online shop…

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston only had to travel 4 miles from his downtown office to attend the Saturday, Feb. 10, Lunar New Year celebration at the Far East Center. The close-knit Luong family, which has run the food-and-retail complex at Federal Boulevard and Alameda Avenue since opening it in 1988, traveled many thousands more. “Back in the (late 1970s) there were not a lot of resources for immigrants and refugees in Denver,” said Mimi Luong, whose family fled North Vietnam for a refugee camp in Guam, and eventually,…

After Joseph Lelyveld, a former executive editor of The New York Times, died last month, his brother Michael Lelyveld went online to see how he was being remembered. He found obituaries in major news outlets, as expected. But he also found other, unexpected portraits of his brother.At least half a dozen biographies were published on Amazon in the days immediately following Lelyveld's death. Several of them were available for purchase on the very day he died. The books, he said, described his brother as a chain smoker,…

India risks losing out to China and Vietnam as it seeks to become a major smartphone export hub and must "act fast" to lure global companies with lower tariffs, the deputy IT minister said in government documents seen by Reuters.Smartphone manufacturing is a key plank of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitions to boost the economy and create jobs by attracting companies such as Apple, Foxconn and Samsung to India, the world's second-largest mobile market where production grew 16% year-on-year to $44 billion last year.…

India faces the risk of losing ground to competitors like China and Vietnam in attracting major players in smartphone manufacturing, and needs to lure them with in subsidies and lower tariffs In a bid to establish itself as…

India risks losing out to China and Vietnam as it seeks to become a major smartphone export hub and must "act fast" to lure global companies with lower tariffs, the deputy IT minister said in government documents seen by Reuters.Smartphone manufacturing is a key plank of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitions to boost the economy and create jobs by attracting companies such as Apple, Foxconn and Samsung to India, the world's second-largest mobile market where production grew 16% year-on-year to $44 billion last…

Fifteen US companies, including semiconductors firms, have expressed interest in investing $8 billion in Vietnam in clean energy infrastructure, contingent on the country's progress on renewable energy rules, a senior US official said on Friday.Vietnam is seeking to attract chipmakers and wants to boost its renewable energy sector but it has so far struggled to adopt rules that would allow the expansion of its solar and onshore wind industry and the development of offshore wind farms of which it has none now.Elevate Your…

Skoda India To Export CKD Kits For Kushaq, Slavia Models To Vietnam. (Photo: Skoda)Over 48,000 units of the locally created Kushaq and Slavia models were created at the Pune factory in India.Skoda Auto, the Czech carmaker, declared that in 2023 they had produced over 8.88 lakh vehicles.Of these, 52,000 were made in India. In addition, 48,000 units were created locally in the Pune facility for the Kushaq and Slavia models, and 4,400 units were made at the Aurangabad plant for the Superb, Octavia, and Kodiaq models.This…

Rest of World: As Chinese tech manufacturers flock to Vietnam to set up new factories, Bac Ninh, an industrial hub northeast of Hanoi, has become a center for Chinese culture — As Chinese manufacturers open shop in Vietnam, Bac Ninh has become a cultural hub with Chinese restaurants, bubble tea shops, and language centers. Rest of World: As Chinese tech manufacturers flock to Vietnam to set up new factories, Bac Ninh, an industrial hub northeast of Hanoi, has become a center for Chinese…