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More than 100 athletes are competing for 12 sets of medals at the 2024 Asian Open Junior Pickleball Championships that has opened in Quang Nam province.

Mingma Rita Sherpa was not home when the muddy torrent roared into his village in Nepal without warning, but when he returned, he did not recognise his once beautiful settlement.

Up to around 120,000 hectares of forests in Quang Ninh have been ravaged by Typhoon Yagi, according to the provincial Department of Agricultural and Rural Development.

A man flying from Hong Kong to Vietnam has been caught hiding up to three kilos of gold on his person.

Many streets in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho were seriously flooded on Saturday as tides on the Hau River reached over two metres.

As many as 37 sets of human remains have just been found at a construction site in the Central Highlands Province of Gia Lai's Dak Po District.

More than 100 elephants in northern Thailand have been moved to higher ground to escape rapidly rising flood waters, local media reported, but many other animals were still stuck as their sanctuary struggled to evacuate them on Friday.

Party General Secretary and President To Lam of Vietnam attended the opening session of the 19th Francophonie Summit held at Villers-Cotterêts castle, France, on October 4 afternoon (local time).

Vietnam is committed to creating favourable conditions for member companies of the MEDEF in particular and foreign investors in general to invest and do business effectively in the country, said Party General Secretary and State President To Lam.

Dantri Newspaper worked with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and Thuong Xuan District People's Committee in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa to implement new and upgraded facilities at a local primary school.

The pontoon bridge which was put into use after Phong Chau Bridge in Phu Tho Province collapsed on September 9, has been temporarily replaced by two military ferries due to the Red River’s rising water level.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on October 4 received delegates to the ongoing conference of the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists in the Asia-Pacific as well as leaders of the Vietnam Association for Intellectual Women.

Police in Hanoi have seized more than 10,000 perfume bottles with unclear origin from a local store.

Philippine authorities have detained more than 250 people, most of them Chinese, in a raid on a suspected online scam farm in Manila, law enforcement officials said Friday.

Vo Le Que Anh, Miss Grand Vietnam, left Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport for Cambodia on October 3 as she heads to compete in the Miss Grand International 2024 beauty contest.

Hanoi will temporarily close many inner-city streets when the city organises the Cultural Festival for Peace.

Oil prices stabilised Friday after soaring on fears about the Middle East crisis as investors await Israel's response to Iran's missile attack, while shares in Hong Kong resumed their rally on a mixed day for equity markets.

Authorities in the central province of Quang Binh have just safely removed a 350-kilo bomb which was found by a local resident near the Khe Thui Bridge in Minh Hoa District.

Hanoi is speeding up a park project with a total investment of VND173 billion (USD7.06 million) in Long Bien District.