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A pilot of Qatar Airways may face fines for violating speed regulations at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi.

VinFast Trading and Production LLC, a subsidiary of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, plans to set up an automobile plant in the US after establishing a 50-member R&D office in San Francisco in preparation for California automobile sales in 2022, Bloomberg reported.

The girl who was rescued after falling from the 12th floor of an apartment building in Hanoi has recovered and will be discharged from the hospital on March 5.

Low-income people in the central province of Quang Binh's Le Thuy District are in need of financial support to build flood-resilient houses to cope with frequent flooding.

Farmers in the northern province of Hai Duong have rushed into local fields to harvest their farm produce after the lockdown was removed.

A poor mother in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa is seeking community support for her two children who are suffering Thalassemia.

Indian pharmaceutical firm Bharat Biotech said Wednesday its domestically developed vaccine, criticised for being rolled out before final trials, was found in interim late-stage data to have almost 81 percent efficacy in preventing Covid-19 infection.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Vietnam have issued a press release urging the Vietnamese Government and the public to keep vigilance on the H5N8 human infection upon the detection

Viet Nam ranks fifth in the Happy Planet Index results, and second in the Asia Pacific region, according to the UK-based New Economics Foundation.

HCM City is experiencing scorching temperatures of over 35 degrees centigrade.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh attended the 27th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Retreat held via videoconference on March 2 and 3, during which he and other delegates approved 10 initiatives and priorities for economic cooperation in 2021.

Thousands of people have participated in the annual spring blood donation festival which is being held in Hanoi between March 1-7.

Seven more people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Vietnam, raising the total number of patients in the country to 2,482, the Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday evening.

A whale weighing more than two tonnes has been found dead on a beach in the central province of Quang Binh.

A man died and two others were injured after a van plunged into a valley in Nghe An Province.

The nation’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is likely to be completed later this year to coincide with the country celebrating the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Switzerland.

Covid-19 vaccinations will be conducted right after the Ministry of Health gets an accreditation certificate from South Korea, slated late this week or early next week.

The People’s Court of the southern border province of Tay Ninh on March 2 handed down the death penalty to a Nigerian man for illegally transporting nearly 4kg of meth, in line with the 2015 Criminal Code.

A 227-kilo unexploded bomb suspected to date back to the American War has been found in the central province of Quang Binh.