The 5th Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge spanning the Mekong between Borikhamxay Province of Laos and Bung Kan Province of Thailand is expected to be completed and opened in early 2024.Since October 2022, 60 per cent of the bridge construction plan has been …
The maker of ChatGPT is trying to curb its reputation as a freewheeling cheating machine with a new tool that can help teachers detect if a student or artificial intelligence wrote that homework.The new AI Text Classifier launched Tuesday by OpenAI fol…
The Standing Committee of the National Assembly’s 9th legislature announced this morning its appointment of three new ministers for Finance, Public Works and Transport, and Energy and Mines.The ministerial appointments were announced at a press confere…
While young people in the Lao PDR have a strong understanding of COVID-19 symptoms and health-protecting behaviours, some do not believe COVID-19 is deadly, a recent European Union (EU)-supported survey by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Or…
In the 1980s, more than 3 million people worldwide were infected with Guinea worm. At the end of 2022, the number of reported cases globally was down to 13.There were 15 cases reported a year earlier, “which does not sound like a big reduction, but whe…
The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade and keep heating to break through a next warming limit around mid-century, even with big pollution cuts, artificial intelligence predicts in a new s…
The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth on Thursday, albeit one that posed no threat to humans, highlights a blind spot in our ability to predict those that could actually cause damage, astronome…
Ahead of World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day Monday, the World Health Organization is calling for action to tackle these debilitating illnesses, which affect an estimated 1.65 billion people globally.A diverse group of 20 parasitic and bacterial trop…