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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the second phase of a US$65-million project to help people with disabilities in two central Vietnam provinces. The phase, carried out via a cooperation with Vietnam’s National Action Center for Chemical and Environmental Treatment, will run until 2026 in Binh Dinh …

Hundreds of families in the central Binh Thuan Province are unable to drive vehicles to their fields due to incomplete infrastructure works nearby. For about two weeks, families in Ma Lam Town, Ham Thuan Bac District cannot drive vehicles through fields near Ham Phu Commune due to barricades of the …

A Dong Nai Province police officer is set to be tried for allegedly raping three girls aged 13-15 on multiple occasions. The Dong Nai People’s Procuracy, the prosecutor’s office, said Wednesday that Nguyen Duy Linh, 37, who has been dismissed as captain from the Phu Tan Commune police station in …

More than VND5.22 trillion (US$222.6 million) are set to be disbursed for component projects of the North-South expressway in June. The money includes more than VND1.6 trillion in the first stage and the remainder in the second stage, the Transport Ministry’s Department of Planning and Investment said. Since the beginning …

When Open AI rolled out the latest version of ChatGPT in March, one particular statistic put the legal profession on its heels: The artificial intelligence technology outperformed nine out of 10 human test-takers. But a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now says that GPT-4’s bar exam performance …

Police in Nha Trang raided a known gambling den, Gameclub Lucky, Wednesday and arrested several people, including two Koreans. They said Koreans Jo Wansu and Shin Jea Ho, Thoong Tau Vay of the southern Dong Nai Province, local man Ngo Van Chuyen, and 14 others would be investigated for organizing …

The year-end ceremony at a Hai Phong high school had a surprise conclusion when 16 of its teachers put on their dancing shoes. At Thai Phien high school in the northern city, just before the curtains came down on the event on May 24, 16 of its teachers came out …

Applied maths graduate Liang Huaxiao tried to land a job with one of China’s tech giants for two years. Then she tried customer service and sales. Then she applied for assistant roles in a bakery and in a beauty parlor. Like a rising number of her highly educated peers, Liang …

Taiwan and the United States will sign the first deal under a new trade talks framework on Thursday, both governments said, boosting ties between the two at a time of heightened tensions with China over the island. Taiwan and the United States started talks under what is called the U.S.-Taiwan …

This compilation of video clips shows how motorcyclists in Hanoi break all limits in their shipping capacity.     Motorcyclists in Vietnam overload their vehicles to the extreme Motorcyclists in Vietnam overload their vehicles to the extreme Clips filmed last month show bikes carrying tires, fruit, sweets, children’s toys, steel, …