Intense conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has worsened the plight of the Rohingya, a persecuted and stateless Muslim minority, pushing increasing numbers to flee by boat.

That a bank manager, of all people, could be fooled on a scale sufficient to bring down a bank is a sign of how sophisticated ...

Thailand cut off the power, internet connections, and petrol deliveries in five suspected call centre scam headquarters in Myanmar from today.

UN investigators in Geneva report ample evidence of crimes in Syria and urge the regime to follow through on its promise of a ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo was the chief guest at India’s Republic Day celebrations on January 26.

Across Southeast Asia, criminals have found there is big money to be made in human trafficking and bilking victims out of ...

It quickly became a nightmare. Upon arriving in Thailand last summer to pick up the “products,” the Hongkonger had their identity documents seized and was driven across the border into Myanmar. Days ...

Using a voice synthesizer, the system translates words spoken in 101 languages into 36 others—not just into English, which tends to dominate current AI interpreters. In a head-to-head evaluation, the ...

versus 101 for Seamless—it can translate them only into English. SeamlessM4T can translate into 36 other languages. The key is a process called parallel data mining, which finds instances when ...

such as ‘nurse’ in English, into gendered counterparts in other languages. In her commentary, Koenecke writes that to further limit the potential harms of automated translation, “developers ...

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