Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the football tournament would proceed as planned, adding the shooting appeared to be the actions of an individual and that police were not seeking anyone else in relation to the incident.”There was no identified political or ideological motivation for the shooting and therefore no national security risk,” Hipkins said during a televised media briefing.There would be no change to New Zealand’s security threat level although there would be an increased police presence in the city, he said.Police said the shooter in Auckland was armed with a pump-action shotgun, moved through the building site and, after…
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We have been married for 15 years and have had three children. We have our own house, our own car, and our own company, though its business performance is not outstanding and just enough for us to afford our living expenses.Still, I think we have a stable life, and was shocked when my wife told me that we should adopt her nephew, the son of my brother-in-law.My brother-in-law has been pampered since he was young, so he did not focus on his studying, just hanging around instead. He and his wife have a son.His wife was diagnosed with some mental…
By Phong Kieu  July 19, 2023 | 07:53pm GMT+7 Actress and director Hong Anh will return to the ASEAN International Films Festival & Awards this year as a judge, six years after winning the festival’s Best Film category. Anh, 46, will be the only Vietnamese member of the festival’s board of jury. This marks another milestone in the female artist’s profile, as she set the record of winning eight out of nine nominations she received in the 2017 festival, including the Best Film award for her debut movie as a director, “Dao Cua Dan Ngu Cu” ( The Way Station).…
The announcement marks Britain’s biggest move in the car gigafactory space as it seeks to keep up with the United States and European Union in the race to develop green industries.Tata said on Wednesday it would build its first gigafactory outside of India with an investment of 4 billion pounds ($5.2 billion), creating up to 4,000 jobs and producing an initial output of 40 gigawatt hours.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government has declined to say how much financial support it promised in order to secure the investment and fend off Spain, which had also lobbied to win the project. The BBC…
By Reuters  July 19, 2023 | 06:44pm GMT+7 Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council, via video link in Moscow, Russia July 14, 2023. Sputnik/Alexey Babushkin/Kremlin via Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the summit of the BRICS group of nations in South Africa in August “by mutual agreement”, South Africa’s presidency said on Wednesday. Russia will be represented by its Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov instead, the presidency said in a statement.South Africa faced a dilemma in hosting the summit because, as a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), it would…
There are around 3,000 Muslims in the neighborhood, making it the most-populated diocese among the 16 Islamic dioceses in HCMC. Haji Kim So, 72, head of the diocese, says the majority of the neighborhood are descendants of those that came from the Mekong Delta Town of Chau Doc and relocated to HCMC in the 1960s. “Lands in this neighborhood were sold for cheap prices back then, so the first Cham Islamic people [from Chau Doc] gathered here and gradually established a community,” he says. . Source: Internet
Melbourne Polytechnic is one of the major educational institutions in Australia, founded in 1887. The educational collaboration between this school and FPT Education has given rise to Melbourne Polytechnic Vietnam (MPVN). Students and lecturers from Melbourne Polytechnic in Vietnam and Australia attend exchange activities. Photo courtesy of Melbourne Polytechnic Vietnam The training program is directly imported from Australia and has a 100% English-based curriculum. All of the school’s students are granted access to the international learning resource repository, which stores all the textbooks, theses, and research of all Melbourne Polytechnic students and lecturers.Lecturers at Melbourne Polytechnic Vietnam hold internationally recognized…
The court issued his suspension just as Pita was sitting in parliament for another day of deliberations on whether he could become prime minister, after his first attempt fell 51 votes short last week.Pita’s Move Forward Party (MFP) has ridden high on the hopes of young and urban Thais wearied by nearly a decade of army-backed rule, but its efforts to form a government have stumbled since the May polls.Thailand’s conservative establishment vehemently opposes the party’s economic reform platform and its pledge to soften the kingdom’s strict royal defamation laws.On Wednesday, the country’s Constitutional Court announced it would take up…
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed concern for the soldier, who the US military in Korea said joined an orientation tour of Joint Security Area between the Koreas and “wilfully and without authorization crossed the Military Demarcation Line into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). “The US Army identified the soldier as Private Travis T. King, who joined in 2021.”There’s a lot that we’re still trying to learn,” Austin told a news briefing. “We believe that he is in (North Korean)custody and so we’re closely monitoring and investigating the situation and working to notify the soldier’s next of kin.”The crossing…
Health authorities have sounded the alarm from North America to Europe and Asia, urging people to stay hydrated and shelter from the burning sun, in a stark reminder of the effects of global warming.”These events will continue to grow in intensity, and the world needs to prepare for more intense heatwaves,” John Nairn, a senior extreme heat advisor at the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), told reporters.Heatwaves are among the deadliest natural hazards, with millions of thousands of people dying from preventable heat-related causes each year.Nairn warned the health risk was growing rapidly, amid burgeoning urbanization, higher temperature extremes and…