HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnamese budget carrier VietJet on Monday agreed to place a new order with planemaker Airbus for 20 A330neo wide-body jets, the airline said in a press release, as French President Emmanuel Macron was in Hanoi to meet Vietnam's leaders. The agreement brings to 40 the A330neo planes that VietJet has agreed to buy, the company said, as it...

* US president grants extension request * European Commission chief says EU will move rapidly * Euro and US dollar rise against safe-haven currencies (Adds quotes from Trump and von der Leyen in paragraphs 5-7, detail and background paragraphs 8-12) By Jeff Mason MORRISTOWN, New Jersey, May 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump backed away on Sunday from his...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

SEOUL, May 26 (Reuters) - OpenAI will set up its first office in Seoul and has established an entity in South Korea as demand in the country jumps for its ChatGPT service, the company said on Monday. South Korea has the largest number of paying ChatGPT subscribers after the United States, according to OpenAI. OpenAI has also begun hiring staff...