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A private luxury resort along the coastal road in Nha Trang has been dismantled to create open space for the public to enjoy the city’s famed natural beach. The demolition of the 28,000-sq.m-site was completed on Wednesday, and the entire Evason Ana Madara resort facility has vanished from the beach …

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a stopgap bill to fund the federal government through early March and avert a partial government shutdown, sending it to President Joe Biden for final approval. The measure passed 314-108, with 106 Republicans and two Democrats in opposition. Earlier on Thursday, the …

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his spouse are scheduled to make a state visit to Vietnam from Jan. 23-24, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced. This visit comes upon an invitation from President Vo Van Thuong and his spouse. During his visit, Steinmeier will meet his Vietnamese counterpart …

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said his company is joining the pursuit of creating super artificial intelligence, putting it in a race with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google. Sometimes called artificial general intelligence or AGI, the goal, given in an interview with The Verge, is to create AI that can …

A Thai man was given a 50-year prison sentence Thursday for criticizing the monarchy — the longest jail term ever handed down under the kingdom’s strict royal insult laws, a legal rights group said. The record-breaking sentence comes after several years in which Thailand has ramped up use of the …

Three Vietnamese scientists have helped create AI that is able to solve Olympiad geometry problems as well as a human bronze medalist. Trinh Hoang Trieu, 29, Luong Minh Thang, 36, and Le Viet Quoc, 42, collaborated to build the AI system AlphaGeometry with a team of several other scientists. Trieu …

Ho Chi Minh City sets to charge a sidewalk usage fee starting this month but due to a lack of legal framework, it has yet to start the policy. According to the city government, roadbeds and sidewalks are part of transport infrastructure assets, but the method of their temporary exploitation …

With Tet approaching and the increased travel it entails, the Ministry of Health has urged the public to be vigilant against respiratory diseases. Besides people coming into contact with each other as they travel, the change in the weather too is a prime condition for pathogens to spread, a ministry …

Vietnam’s judiciary recommended Thursday two people be sentenced to death on terrorism charges for killing nine people in bloody raids they orchestrated on local government offices in the highlands last year. A trial for 100 people involved in the deadly attacks on the People’s Committee offices Dak Lak Province’s rural …

Mountainous areas of northern Vietnam will be literally freezing Saturday and beyond as a new cold front descends on the region with temperatures as low as zero degrees Celsius. The cold air will affect mountainous regions first, before expanding over the eastern parts of northern Vietnam and the Red River …