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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 …

Kindergarteners and primary school students may stay home if air quality indexes prove to be hazardous for three days straight, the Health Environment Management Agency proposed. The proposal was made amid poor air quality levels in certain localities which have negatively impacted people’s health. Air quality in Hanoi was often …

Completing 200 km of metro lines in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City within 12 years is an “impossible mission” without special mechanisms, such as issuing bonds to raise funds, experts have said. As per a conclusion of the Politburo, the decision-making body in the Communist Party of Vietnam, on …

A Slovak man has been imprisoned for trying to bring a Vietnamese woman from France to the U.K. by hiding her in his car. Jozef Balog, 33, was sentenced to two and a half years behind bars by a court for assisting unlawful immigration, on Jan. 16, the U.K. Embassy …

The winner of Japan’s most prestigious literary award has acknowledged that about “five percent” of her futuristic novel was penned by ChatGPT, saying generative AI had helped unlock her potential. Since the 2022 launch of ChatGPT, an easy-to-use AI chatbot that can deliver an essay upon request within seconds, there …