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Stocks plunged more than four percent in Tokyo on Monday after the yen surged in reaction to Shigeru Ishiba's election last week as the head of Japan's ruling party, which boosted expectations the Bank of Japan will continue hiking

A pontoon bridge has just opened to temporarily facilitate transport before the new Phong Chau Bridge is built to replace the old one, which recently collapsed in the northern province of Phu Tho.

Party General Secretary and State President To Lam departed Hanoi on Monday to pay State visits to Mongolia and Ireland, attend the 19th Francophonie Summit and make an official visit to France from September 30-October 7.

Residents of Nepal's flood-hit capital returned to their mud-caked homes on Sunday to survey the wreckage of devastating floods that have killed at least 148 people across the Himalayan republic.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 29 attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hoa Binh – Moc Chau expressway project in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh.

China’s Deli Group broke ground for its new stationery manufacturing plant at the Dai An Expanded Industrial Park in the northern province of Hai Duong on September 28.

A new cold air mass combined with a low-pressure trough crossing the North Central region is anticipated to cause widespread heavy rain across northern and north-central localities of Vietnam.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a hybrid conference on September 28 with representatives of 26 northern provinces and centrally-run cities to draw lessons from the response to recent Typhoon Yagi and subsequent rains and floods.

Low-lying neighbourhoods in Nepal's capital Kathmandu were inundated by surging floodwaters on Sunday after ferocious monsoon rains that police said had killed at least 101 people around the Himalayan republic.

General Secretary and President To Lam will pay State visits to Mongolia and Ireland, and official visit to France from September 30 to October 7, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Sunday.

Nguyen Manh Duy has become the first Vietnamese mountaineer to reach the top of Mountain Manaslu, the eighth-highest mountain in the world standing at 8,163 metres above sea level, reported Nepal-based newspaper Himalaya Daily.

The United Nations Human Rights Council on September 27 adopted Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) cycle IV report within the framework of its 57th regular session in Geneva, Switzerland.

The United Nations Day of Vesak 2025 in Vietnam is expected to attract around 2,000 participants, including 1,000 international delegates from 80 countries.

Mayor Pierre Garzon bestowed the title of "Honorary Citizen of Villejuif," the city's highest honour, upon Tran To Nga, an 82-year-old French-Vietnamese who has fought tirelessly for justice for millions of Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has supported many households severely hit by the impact of Typhoon Yagi in the northern moutainous province of Yen Bai.

The locomotive of a freight train derailed in Lang Co Town in the central province of Thua Thien Hue early this morning, September 28.

Many streets in Hanoi have been brilliantly decorated with national flags, banners and flowers to mark the 70th anniversary of the capital city’s liberation (October 10).

Farmers in the Central Highlands City of Dalat have been called for gathering abandoned pesticide packaging containers to exchange for gifts, which has proved an effective way to protect the environment.