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Vũ Tiến Lộc, a National Assembly Deputy, Chairman of the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre and former Chairman of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry passed away on Monday at the age of 64, a source from VCCI said.

A poor man in the southern province of Dong Thap needs financial help to support his three children suffering from health problems.

The Dong Nai People's Committee has allocated nearly 100 hectares of land for the Long Thanh Airport Project, raising the total land area for phase one to 2,500 hectares.

The elevated section of the Nhổn-Hanoi Urban Railway Project will open for commercial operations on Friday.

Secretary of the Can Tho municipal Party Committee Nguyen Van Hieu and Governor of Japan’s Niigata prefecture Hanazumi Hideyo on August 5 exchanged views on how to boost cooperation between the two localities in various fields, with priority given

Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule as Bangladesh's prime minister ended Monday as she fled more than a month of deadly protests and the military announced it would form an interim government.

Costa Rica's diplomatic note recognizing Vietnam as a market economy is viewed as a positive step in the context that the country is asking a number of trade partners to recognise its market economy status.

HCM City plans to build a database of overseas Vietnamese (OVs) to connect them and promote their contributions to the city’s development.

A number of domestic and international experts are set to gather at the Vietnam Artificial Intelligence Day (AI4VN 2024) slated for August 23 in Hanoi to discuss the topic on Generative AI.

Former chairman of FLC Group Trịnh Văn Quyết has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for fraudulent appropriation of property and stock market manipulation.

At least two workers were killed and one other was injured when a boiler exploded at a cashew production company in the southern province of Binh Phuoc on Monday.

Border guards operating in the central province of Quang Tri informed the public on August 5 that they had initiated criminal proceedings against a ring that had organised illegal entry and exit activities for others.

One person was killed, and two others suffered injuries in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on Monday morning.

According to the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting, the northern region of Vietnam will experience hot weather this week.

An 18-km road project, expected to help connect a remote mountainous village with the commune centre in Nghe An Province, has been idle for nearly ten years due to a lack of capital.

Foreign entities and individuals can now own up to 30% of the residential apartments in a building, including mixed-use developments, under a new decree effective on August 1.

Tokyo led a collapse across Asian equities Monday, while the yen hit a six-month high after weak US jobs data fanned fears of a recession in the world's top economy and boosted bets on several Federal Reserve interest rate cuts.

The billion-USD Halal market, fueled by a surging global Muslim population, is considered one of the drivers for Vietnam's exports in the future.

Hanoi and HCM City, two major cities in Vietnam, have been named among Asia's top ten cities with the lowest travel costs, according to Travel & Leisure.