Society

Severe flooding in Dong Nai City has affected 286 households, inundated farmland and fish ponds, and claimed the life of one woman swept away by floodwaters.

A fisherman in Gia Lai Province has landed three giant silver carp from T'Nung Lake, including one weighing more than 30 kilos.

Can Tho City is preparing 25,000 pots of rice for display at the second Vietnam International Rice Industry Festival, scheduled for November.

The number of traffic accidents fell 16.6 per cent year on year in the first nine months of 2026, with declines also recorded in deaths and injuries, according to the Traffic Police Department.

HCM City will immediately deploy 81 experienced doctors to 37 understaffed local health stations as part of a new two-tier support system aimed at strengthening primary healthcare.

More than 26.8 million passenger journeys have been recorded on Ho Chi Minh City's bus network since the introduction of a fare-free policy on 134 routes nearly three months ago.

Long Thanh International Airport's lotus-shaped passenger terminal is more than 77 per cent complete ahead of planned commercial operations in December.

Authorities have felled 26 pine trees along Prenn Pass in Xuan Huong-Dalat Ward, Lam Dong Province, after prolonged heavy rain raised the risk of trees falling onto the road.

A Chinese national subject to an international wanted notice for a fatal assault case has been arrested in Haiphong and handed over to authorities in China.

An 83-year-old man has been found alive in a forest in Ha Tinh Province after six days missing, surviving with little food or water.

Thousands of university students are expected to take part in a nationwide competition aimed at improving public understanding of road traffic laws and promoting safer road use in Vietnam.

At least two people were killed and five others injured after a passenger coach collided with a motorcycle and overturned on a road in Gia Lai Province on September 23.

Heavy rain flooded Bui Vien walking street and several roads in central HCM City on September 23, disrupting traffic and leaving some vehicles stranded.

Health authorities have detected multiple bacterial strains in food samples linked to a suspected food poisoning incident that sent 46 people to hospital in Quang Tri Province.

A resident in Nghe An Province has handed over a five-kilogramme python to local authorities for release into the wild.

A Chinese passenger was reunited with a Rolex watch worth about VND 1.6 billion after airport security officers traced him shortly before his flight departed from Danang.