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Party General Secretary and President To Lam witnessed the exchange of several cooperation pacts between Vietnam and Ireland in Dublin on October 3, shortly after meeting with Irish businesses during his state visit to the European nation.

Authorities in HCM City have just started a two-month trial run for their first metro line, which connects Ben Thanh and Suoi Tien, beginning on October 1.

The Government is striving to register an economic growth rate of 7% for the whole year, higher than the National Assembly (NA)’s target of 6-6.5%.

Police in the southern province of Phu Yen have just arrested a man for setting fires to three local bank offices.

A landslide has happened at Prenn Pass in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong’s Da Lat City.

Nine people died on Thursday after a fire ripped through a hospital in southern Taiwan just as a typhoon hit, making rescue operations "more difficult", authorities said.

Domestic retail petroleum prices dropped sharply at 3 pm today, October 3, following a decision by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

A truck driver who went missing after being swept away by floodwaters in Da Lat City in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has been found dead.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Sinh Nhat Tan and Irish Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Peter Burke signed a MoU on economic and trade ties between the two ministries.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to create funds for overseas Vietnamese seeking to invest in real estate and small and medium-sized enterprises, and buy bonds for funding infrastructure.

A Singaporean former minister was sentenced Thursday to 12 months in prison for obstruction of justice and accepting illegal gifts, local media reported, in the city-state's first political graft trial for nearly half a century.

Tourists from the Republic of Korea, Japan, and Thailand are the most likely to be drawn in by Vietnamese delights, with visitors from these three nations most likely to visit Vietnam with cuisine on their mind, according to digital

Vietnam is extremely concerned about, discontented with, and resolutely opposes the Chinese law enforcement force’s brutal behaviours towards Vietnamese fishermen and vessel operating in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago area.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam visited Trinity College Dublin in Ireland on October 2.

A horrifying fire on a Thai school bus this week that killed at least 23 people, most of them children, underscores how the kingdom's roads are some of the deadliest in the world.

A new bee species was discovered in the Vũ Quang National Park in the central province of Hà Tĩnh, announced the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology and the park on Wednesday.

President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins hosted an official welcome ceremony for General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam on October 1.

Up to 36 earthquakes with magnitudes between 2.5 and 4.0 were recorded in September, mainly in Kon Plong district the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, according to Institute of Geophysics under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

Hanoi welcomed about 4.45 million foreign tourists in the first nine months of this year, soaring 40.8% year-on-year and nearly fulfilling its yearly target of serving 5 million international visitors, according to the city Department Tourism.