The Vietnam Center for the Protection of Music Copyright (VCPMC) announced Thursday it had asked the Hanoi People’s Committee and the municipal Department of Culture and Sports to cancel Saturday and Sunday’s performances at the capital’s My Dinh National Stadium due to copyright infringement.A representative of the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports said that they would investigate the matter further.According to VCPMC, concert organizer IME has failed to obtain permission and pay royalties needed to license the copyright for use of Blackpink’s material in Vietnam.VCPMC is representing the South Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA) under an agreement that grants…
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By Reuters  July 27, 2023 | 07:45 pm GMT+7 Shipping containers are unloaded from a ship at a container terminal at the Port of Long Beach-Port of Los Angeles complex, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 7, 2021. Photo by Reuters/Lucy Nicholson The U.S. economy grew faster than expected in the second quarter as labor market resilience underpinned consumer spending, while businesses boosted investment in equipment, potentially keeping a much-feared recession at bay. Gross domestic productincreased at a 2.4%annualized rate last quarter, the Commerce Department in its advance estimate of second-quarter GDP on Thursday. The economy grew at a 2.0%…
After Washington earlier this year accused Pyongyang of supplying Moscow with weapons for its war in Ukraine, photographs in state media showed Kim walking Moscow’s Sergei Shoigu through a vast defense exhibition showcasing the North’s nuclear missiles and what Seoul-based specialist site NK News said were new unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).Shoigu and a high-ranking Chinese delegation are in Pyongyang as Kim’s first-known foreign guests since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, as the country marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, which ended open hostilities and is celebrated as Victory Day.Kim and Shoigu visited the “Weapons and Equipment…
By Linh Le  July 27, 2023 | 03:09 pm GMT+7 A man in China’s eastern province of Jiangxi put an ATM out of service after inserting joss paper money into the machine as he was “running out of money.” A man in Jiangxi, China inserts joss paper money into an ATM as he was “running out of money.” Photo illustration by Pexels The man, identified as Zheng, tried to make the deposit early in the morning, making the machine crash due to the notes, which are usually burned as offerings for the deceased, being the wrong size, reported South China…
Noboru Kaneko, who plays Gao Red in the 2001 Japanese superhero series ‘Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger’, is set to have a fan meeting in Vietnam this month. The 48-year-old landed at Tan Son Nhat Airport in HCMC Wednesday for his second visit to Vietnam.On July 29 and 30 he will take part in a fan meeting where he will pose for photos and sign autographs.In addition, he will attend Manga Comic Con Vietnam event and talk about his 24-year journey as an actor and his most well-known role, Gao Red, which launched him to stardom in 2001. Noboru Kaneko at Tan…
Buyers have to access the ticket exchange desks in accordance with their ticket categories. Many security guards were appointed to serve the exchange. Most ticket buyers brought their umbrellas and worse sunglasses in the sun. Ticket categories were represented and differentiated by different wrist colors. Tickets to the show cost between VND1.8 million and VND9.8 million (around $76-$414) and stopped being distributed on July 15. iMe Vietnam, the concert organizer, has not publicized the number of tickets sold. The Hanoi People’s Committee estimated Tuesday that there would be around 36,000 attendees to the July 29 show, and around 31,000 attendees…
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Meta reported a profit of $7.8 billion on $32 billion in revenue during the recently ended quarter, as the number of people using Facebook monthly rose to 3.03 billion.”We had a good quarter,” Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an earnings call.”We continue to see strong engagement across our apps and we have the most exciting roadmap I’ve seen in a while…”Meta had suffered a rough 2022 amid a souring economic climate, which forced advertisers to cut back on spending, and Apple’s data privacy changes, which allowed users to block ad targeting, the pillar of Meta’s business.But like the…
Ministers and officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met in Singapore last month, where they vowed to ramp up monitoring of wildfires and efforts to prevent air pollution, and finalize a new plan to boost cooperation.During the dry season in Indonesia – usually starting in August – slash-and-burn clearance of forest and peat land to expand palm oil, farming and pulp and paper production covers much of Southeast Asia in a choking haze for months most years.Yet environmentalists are concerned that this haze season could be the worst in years, after the World Meteorological Organization warned that…
By Reuters  July 27, 2023 | 08:59 am GMT+7 Members of the Philippine Coast Guard remove a fallen tree from a road following the onslaught of Typhoon Doksuri in Buguey, Cagayan province, Philippines, July 26, 2023. Photo by Philippine Coast Guard Southern Taiwan on Thursday shut businesses and schools while airlines canceled hundreds of domestic flights amid warnings of landslides and floods as Typhoon Doksuri churned past the island en route to China where it will make landfall later this week. As of 8:30 a.m. (0030 GMT) Typhoon Doksuri, categorized at the second-strongest typhoon level by Taiwan’s weather bureau, headed…