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Vietnamese police arrest 12 over theft of 2,700 cats

Rank
Ran
26h
Updated
19h ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
5
Countries
8
Languages
7

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Rappler Philippines · English 8 Oct, 05:31 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Dansk (1) · Magyar (1) · Português (1) · Türkçe (1) · العربية (1) · ไทย (1) · +5 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 29 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Matichon, 7 Oct, 05:30 UTC.
  2. Second country: Hungary, with Index.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Index.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 8 Oct, 06:38 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

29 of 29 hours

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The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 25%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 25%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 25%

First movers

  1. Matichon 7 Oct, 05:30 UTC
  2. Index +5h 57m
  3. Sözcü +8h 49m
  4. CNN Brasil +12h 49m
  5. Rappler +24h 1m

Last to join

  1. Asharq News 8 Oct, 10:05 UTC
  2. TimesLIVE 8 Oct, 07:15 UTC
  3. Berlingske 8 Oct, 06:38 UTC
  4. Rappler 8 Oct, 05:31 UTC
  5. CNN Brasil 7 Oct, 18:19 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Vietnamese police bust cat-stealing ring of 2,700 pets, 5 to 6 Oct 2026, 33 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 8 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 8 outlets, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 1: Brazil. Asia-Pacific 2: Philippines, Thailand. Europe 2: Denmark, Hungary. Middle East 2: Saudi Arabia, Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, Danish, English, Hungarian, Portuguese, Thai, Turkish.
Timeline
Earliest article Matichon, 7 Oct 2026, 05:30 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 07:20 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 10:05 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Vietnam. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.13, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues Vietnamese police bust cat-stealing ring of 2,700 pets. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
8 Oct 2026 235 3.85 8 8 4 4 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 07:20 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 10:05 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • TimesLIVE South Africa 8 Oct, 07:15 UTC
    Vietnam police arrest 12 over theft of 2,700 cats for slaughter

Americas 1 outlet

  • CNN Brasil Brazil 7 Oct, 18:19 UTC
    Grupo de 12 pessoas usava armadilhas de madrugada para furtar 2.700 gatos e abastecer rede ilegal que vendia carne para consumo humano

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • Rappler Philippines 8 Oct, 05:31 UTC
    Vietnam police arrest 12 over theft of 2,700 cats for slaughter
  • Matichon Thailand 7 Oct, 05:30 UTC
    ทลายแก๊งใหญ่ เวียดนามรวบตัว 12 ผู้ต้องหา ตระเวนลักแมวส่งขาย 2.7 พันตัว

Europe 2 outlets

  • Berlingske Denmark 8 Oct, 06:38 UTC
    12 anholdt i sag om tyveri af tusindvis af katte i Vietnam
  • Index Hungary 7 Oct, 11:28 UTC
    Horror Vietnámban: éjjel csaptak le, 2700 macskát loptak el és adtak el húsnak

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia 8 Oct, 10:05 UTC
    فيتنام.. اعتقال 12 شخصاً بعد سرقة 2700 قطة وبيعها للأكل
  • Sözcü Turkey 7 Oct, 14:19 UTC
    Yemek için restoranlara satılıyormuş! 2 bin 700 kediyi çalan şebeke çökertildi
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