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An inland waterway port in Ha Long City in the northern province of Quang Ninh has been licensed to serve tourist boats.

The Qdenga vaccine, manufactured by Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceuticals, will be the first dengue fever vaccine launched in the Vietnamese market in September this year.

An Indian pharmaceutical billionaire plans to take 4,500 employees on a two-week tour of Vietnam starting later this month. The tour will visit Hanoi, Ninh Binh, and Ha Long Bay in the northern region.

Authorities of Da Lat City in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong are investigating a case in which a dog was severely mistreated by its owner.

The prices of Vietnamese rice are rising, contrasting with the trends in Thailand and Pakistan, according to the Vietnam Food Association.

Many firms in Vietnam are giving their employees a day off and gifts for the coming Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has proposed to the Ministry of Transport the planning of Pleiku Airport expansion in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai for approval.

An exhausted six-year-old boy was found around midday on Wednesday, five days after he went missing in a forest in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.

Standout features of the Hanoi Old Quarter’s cuisine could be discovered through a cuisine app recently launched by the People’s Committee of Hoan Kiem district.

Deputy Minister of Agrculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam has called for coordination from Japan to implement capacity-building programmes for cooperatives joining Vietnam's project on developing 1 million hectares of high-quality, low-emission rice.

In a dingy New Delhi pedestrian subway, patients waiting for treatment at nearby hospitals line the ground as queues grow with Indian doctors protesting the rape and murder of a colleague.

A total of 120 Vietnamese players will compete at the 22nd ASEAN+ Age-group Chess Championships 2024, scheduled to take place in Vientiane, Laos from August 21 to 31.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has announced hotlines to receive tourist complaints on the National Day (September 2) holiday.

Hanoi Department of Transport have proposed investing VND225 billion (USD9 million) in narrowing medians and pavements on some local streets to expand the roadways.

An exchange programme between Vietnamese youth leaders and their Singaporean counterparts kicked off in Singapore on August 19 with the aim of promoting solidarity and cultural exchanges among young leaders.

Vietnam and China have issued a joint statement on further strengthening the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries.

The police of Ho Chi Minh City have so far prosecuted as many as 1,038 suspects since the case involving four flight attendants smuggling drugs from France into Vietnam in March 2023.

A severe landslide has occurred on a road connecting the two northern mountainous provinces of Lai Chau and Dien Bien.

Vietnam has always proactively applied and responded to trade defence measures in international trade to prevent negative impacts of massive imports, unfair competition and protect domestic manufacturing industries.