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Receiving a U.S. congressional delegation on Saturday, PM Pham Minh Chinh asked the U.S. Congress to increase budget for supporting Vietnam in overcoming war consequences. At the meeting at the government’s headquarters in Hanoi, PM Chinh said Vietnam considers the U.S. one of its most important partners and expressed desire …

Jos Avery was given a camera almost four decades ago, sparking a lifelong fascination with photography. But last September he found a new creative outlet, one that led him to deceive thousands of people: the artificial intelligence program Midjourney, which generates wild and wonderful images from brief text instructions. “Soon …

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Saturday he is seeking the pardon of an Uber driver convicted of murder a day earlier in the July 2020 shooting death of a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin, the state capital. Abbott, in a post on Twitter, said …

At least four people were killed in a shooting in southern Thailand on Saturday, police said, with local media reporting that officers were still searching for the suspect. The attack started at about 5 p.m. (1100 GMT), in Khiri Rat Nikhom district in Surat Thani province — roughly 600 km …

Flames engulfed over 10 ha (24.7 acres) of pine forest in the central hill town Da Lat for 8 hours on Friday, with streaks of fire seen spanning across several hills. Vu Dinh Cuong, head of the Lam Dong Department of Forest Protection, on Saturday said the fire, which occurred …

A team of five students from the Foreign Trade University are the first Vietnamese to ever break into the top 10 in the Global Case Competition at Harvard (GCCH). The Vietnamese team, named Primo Partners, is comprised of sophomore and junior students at the university’s Ho Chi Minh City campus: …

An event firm in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) hosting an international swimming contest has been fined for posting maps saying Vietnam’s islands belong to China. Peak Events has to pay a fine of VND25 million (US$1,066), according to a decision made on Friday by police in the central Khanh …

A 51-year-old woman in Hanoi has given birth to a baby girl after finding out about her pregnancy only in the 22nd week. The woman, who has two older sons, did not menstruate for four months and thought that she had went into menopause. But when there were movements in …

TikTok may be banned if it does not remove violating content as instructed, the information ministry said. Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Lam said Thursday: “Vietnamese law has enough provisions to ensure cybersecurity, and is not limited to banning or removing violating apps.” Le Quang Tu Do, …

China will hold three days of military exercises around Taiwan starting from Saturday, the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command announced, the day after Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen returned from a trip to the United States. China will hold “combat readiness patrols” and exercises around in the Taiwan Strait and …