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Twenty-three vehicles fell down a steep slope, some sending up flames as they caught fire.
Zhang Yongzhen, who released the data without state approval, stages protest after being evicted.
President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid bill that included a potential TikTok ban unless its Chinese owners sell the platform.
The bill forces TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell its stake in the platform to a U.S.-based entity within 12 months or risk a ban.
U.S. lawmakers recently revived their effort to force TikTok's Chinese owner to sell the popular app.
The president's announcement comes the same day as a visit to the United Steelworkers union headquarters in Pittsburgh.
The chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was formally charged with fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s 2022 GDP.
Authorities say it is a growing problem as people look for new ways to draw online viewers to generate cash.
A strong earthquake has shaken Taiwan, damaging buildings in a southern city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on Japanese islands.
The Japanese imperial family's social media debut comes 15 years after Britain’s royal family joined Twitter in 2009.