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The Ministry of Transport has approved the use of space under bridges for parking vehicles except those carrying fuel or hazardous chemicals. In the Road Traffic Bill it has drafted, and on which it is now soliciting comments, the ministry says such bridges must meet safety requirements and authorities need …

Three 5-star cruise ships have been caught bringing visitors to a prohibited Ha Long Bay beach. The management board of Ha Long Bay on Thursday said Ha Long authorities found that the Au Co 1, Au Co 2 and Star Light cruise ships had allowed around 150 guests to visit …

HCMC police are launching a month-long inspection of all facilities that accommodate foreigners in the city to make sure they comply with regulations requiring them to report foreign residents. The immigration management division of the HCMC police said the campaign would begin August 1, focusing on dealing with landlords and …

A driver parked his pickup truck on a slope without turning its engine off or putting its emergency brake on, leaving it to roll downhill into a coffee shop. Dozens of people were enjoying the Ben Luc Town café in the Mekong Delta province of a Long An on Thursday …

Da Lat City’s prosecutors are holding the construction director and supervisor of an embankment project accountable for a landslide killing two last month. Nguyen Uy Vu, 39, director of Le Nguyen Lam Dong Construction JSC, which designs and builds the embankment, and Duong Viet Phong, 41, supervisor of the project, …

Alphabet said it is rolling out its artificial- intelligence chatbot, Bard, in Europe and Brazil on Thursday, the product’s biggest expansion since its February launch and pitting it against Microsoft-backed rival ChatGPT. Bard and ChatGPT are human-sounding programs that use generative artificial intelligence to hold conversations with users and answer …

Thailand’s parliament on Thursday rejected election winner Pita Limjaroenrat’s bid to become prime minister. After hours of discussions but a surprisingly swift voting process, Pita failed to secure the 375 parliamentary votes needed to become Thailand’s 30th premier, despite his reformist party winning the popular vote in the general election. …

China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are pushing ahead with talks on a third version of a free trade agreement at an ASEAN summit in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi said on Thursday. Wang, who was attending the forum with foreign ministers …

Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team comprised of engineers from the same big U.S. technology firms that he hopes to challenge in his bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT. The startup will be led by Musk, already the …

A Vietnam-based film about a group of friends gathering to protect the grey-shanked douc langur has won the runner-up prize in the Documentary Shorts Category of the Film for the Forest 2023 award, WWF-Vietnam said. The film, a co-production of WWF-Vietnam and Melt Films, was made to honor a volunteer …