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Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra, along with the newly appointed leadership of the Ministry of Home Affairs, jointly pressed the button to officially commence the new ministry’s operations on March​ 1.

Restaurants, hotels, and supermarkets in Hanoi have been urged to provide tourists with free restroom access.

Traffic accidents in Vietnam have sharply dropped after two months of implementing Decree 168, which established new penalties for traffic violations.

A freight train overturned after colliding with a truck on the North-South railway route, displacing hundreds of metres of track and paralysing the rail line.

Hanoi has begun a trial ban on vehicles with over 16 seats (excluding public buses and school transport) in the Old Quarter and Hoan Kiem Lake area during peak hours, starting today, March 1.

The “Swiss tourism for sustainable development in Vietnam” project was launched at a ceremony in Hanoi on February 28.

Authorities in Binh Dinh Province is accelerating efforts to relocate households residing in landslide-prone areas near Cam Mountain in Cat Thanh Commune to ensure their safety.

More than 40 construction workers were missing after an avalanche in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on Friday following heavy snowfall, officials said.

Vinh Airport in the central province of Nghe An will close from July to the end of December 2025 to facilitate runway repairs and upgrades.

A farmer in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong has appealed to the authorities after 700 coffee trees in his plantation were vandalised, causing losses worth hundreds of millions of dong.

A fisherman from Ly Son Island District in the central province of Quang Ngai has caught a milk shark weighing up to 200 kilos.

Over ten households in Hanoi's Giang Van Minh Street where an incident involving additive leakage occurred during a nearby metro tunnel excavation have been urgently evacuated.

Authorities in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau are seeking approval from the Ministry of Transport for a feasibility study on a tunnel connecting the neighbouring province of Lao Cai.

The Vietnam and China Coast Guard forces conducted their first joint patrol of 2025 in the northern waters of the Gulf of Tonkin on February 27.

A guard on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in HCM City was attacked after reminding a couple not to bring an unleashed dog into the area.

Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh and his New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon visited the Temple of Literature, Vietnam's first university, on Thursday morning.

Authorities in Da Lat City in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong banned horse-drawn carriages from transporting people around Xuan Huong Lake on February 25.

Authorities in the southern coastal province of Ca Mau are searching for two fishermen reported missing at sea in the province’s waters.

Hanoi Botanical Garden has deteriorated for many years, affecting the aesthetics and charm of this centuries-old green space. Despite plans for renovation and upgrades, progress remains stalled.