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OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft were sued on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who say the companies misused their work to train the artificial-intelligence models behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT and other AI-based services. This illustration photograph taken on October 30, 2023, shows …

A central Vietnam land official has been arrested for killing a cyclist while driving drunk and then driving away, dragging the victim’s bicycle for 5 km while she died on the road. Police in Thanh Hoa Province announced on Friday that Le Van Tho, 29, who works at the land …

Australia’s top university, the University of Melbourne, has added 11 Vietnamese high schools to its direct admission list, bringing the total Vietnamese schools on the list to 23. Lam Minh Khoa, Country Manager of the University of Melbourne in Vietnam, said Thursday that the new policy would take effect from …

Two directors from two companies were put under investigation for illegally exporting rare earths worth VND7.8 billion ($320,223) to China. Tran Duc, director of the Duong Lieu Logistic Company, and Nguyen Thanh Doan, director of the Truong Son War Invalids Company, were put under investigation by the police from the …

A South Korean man internationally wanted for a drug conviction in his home country was detained in HCMC Friday. According to investigators, Um Youn Min, 45, was member of a ring that manufactured methamphetamine and organized parties in which attendants would be offered different types of narcotics. South Korean police …

The death toll from a devastating earthquake in central Japan rose to 92 on Friday, regional authorities said, with the number of missing jumping to 242. Two elderly women were pulled from the rubble, but hopes of finding other survivors faded as thousands of rescuers raced against the clock four …

North Korea fired more than 200 artillery rounds into the sea on Friday near a tense maritime border with South Korea, a military official said, while residents of two South Korean islands were ordered to seek shelter due to an unspecified “situation.” The defence ministry would not confirm if the …

Ba Son Bridge over the Saigon River between District 1 and Thu Duc City will be covered with a special paint that will allow graffiti to be wiped off. The new symbol of Ho Chi Minh City would be repainted by the second quarter of this year, Pham Minh Hai, …

The central Thua Thien-Hue Province has announced plans to subsidize cremations to discourage people from burying the dead and building tombs for them. It has earmarked, for until 2030, VND6.5 million ($267) for cremating people aged above 10 and VND3.5 million for those below 10. Deceased people who are unidentifiable …

Vietnam strongly condemned the bombing in Kerman city in southeastern Iran on Jan. 3, which claimed dozens of lives, spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang said. Hang made the comment on Thursday while answering to a reporter’s query on Vietnam’s response to the bombing. Vietnam would …