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HCM City authorities have approved a project to construct a VND997-billion (USD40.81 million) bridge over the Saigon River.

The cultural festival for peace is underway in Hanoi to mark the city's 70th Liberation Day (October 10, 1954-2024) and 25 years since receiving the title “City for Peace”.

There is plenty of room for Vietnamese fruit and vegetables to enter more stringent markets such as the US, Australia, and the EU by focusing on high-quality fruit, accurate origin certificates, and food safety standards, according to insiders.

This year’s total registered foreign investment, including new capital, adjustments, and capital contributions via share purchases, exceeded 24.78 billion USD as of September 30, up 11.6% year-on-year.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has launched a movement themed “Mai am cho dong bao toi” (houses for our compatriots) to build and upgrade houses for the needy across the nation within 450 days.

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.