DUBAI / WAM The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai signed an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary company of Amazon that specialises in providing cloud computing platforms and application programming interfaces. The main goal of this partnership is to support the RTA’s transition to cloud computing and exchange knowledge and best practices in areas such as …

BEIJING / WAM China has rolled out an ethical guideline for brain-computer interfaces (BCI) aiming to better guide the compliant development of BCI research and prevent ethical risks in the process of research and technological applications. The released guideline by the Ministry of Science and Technology comes after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the success of a procedure to implant …

HANOI / WAM Despite a challenging global economic landscape, Vietnam continues to stand resilient as one of the top 10 recipients of overseas remittances worldwide, with an estimated $14 billion last year, according to the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief and the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD). Breaking records on its own, Ho Chi Minh City …