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Vietnamese authorities have detained two Lao nationals after discovering 500 kilograms of narcotics illegally transported from Laos to Vietnam.

A fishing boat from the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai province sank after being hit by a foreign oil tanker, leaving the captain missing. Ten other crew members were rescued.

Typhoon Matmo made landfall in the Fangcheng area of China’s Guangxi Province, near the Vietnam-China border on October 6.

Hundreds of homes in Hanoi’s Xuan Phuong Ward remain chest-deep underwater, with residents enduring life without electricity and clean water after torrential rains caused by Typhoon Bualoi.

The office is designed to be both a service hub and a spiritual support system, linking social organisations and philanthropists with disadvantaged children.

More than 200 students from Ly Tu Trong Secondary School in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang have been evacuated after severe flooding caused by Typhoon Bualoi submerged the campus.

Cuba has called on Vietnamese businesses to expand investment in areas where Vietnam boasts strengths and the Caribbean country has demand.

Police in An Giang Province on October 3 announced that they have issued arrest warrants and prosecuted two Algerian nationals for circulating counterfeit US dollars in Phu Quoc Special Zone.

Police in Dong Nai Province are investigating the killing of three family members in Dak Nhau Commune on October 3, in what is suspected to be a robbery-homicide.

The Duong Dong 2 Freshwater Reservoir is among Phu Quoc Special Zone’s key projects to serve APEC 2027.

Rescue workers in Lao Cai Province on October 3 found the bodies of two men missing in a landslide in Minh Luong Commune, with a third victim still unaccounted for.

Residents in Tra Tan Commune, Danang City, have discovered a bomb weighing more than 220kg while planting trees and immediately alerted authorities, who later destroyed it safely.

Five members of the “Provisional National Government of Vietnam”, an outlawed organisation based in the US, have been prosecuted on the charge of "terrorism against the people's government".

A tropical depression over the eastern waters of the Philippines has strengthened into Storm Matmo, which is forecast to enter the East Sea in the evening of October 3.

A landslide triggered by Typhoon Bualoi swept a 30-metre section of the Khau Pha Pass road in the northern province of Lao Cai into a ravine, leaving traffic paralysed.

A company has offered to sponsor three ferries linking HCM City with the Can Gio area, helping to ease pressure on Binh Khanh Ferry.

Vietnam Railways JSC has announced the suspension of dozens of train services because of flooding and landslides triggered by Typhoon Bualoi.

Authorities at the Cau Treo International Border Gate, Ha Tinh Province, have arrested a drug trafficker for transporting 14kg of drugs from Laos into Vietnam.

Residents of Yen Bai Ward in Lao Cai were clearing homes and streets on October 1 after floodwaters receded following storm Bualoi.