Society

Taste of Australia – an annual celebration of Australian food, beverages, and culture - will be held at Hanoi’s Thang Long Imperial Citadel on October 17.

The 100 most valuable Vietnamese brands in 2024 were honoured at a ceremony held by Consultancy Vietnam Brand Purpose and global consultancy Brand Finance in Ho Chi Minh City on October 11.

With the development of the high-speed North-South railway project, the focus has turned to training a local workforce to minimise dependence on foreign expertise in express rail operations.

Automaker VinFast, a subsidiary of conglomerate Vingroup, has announced it delivered more than 9,300 cars to customers in September, securing the leading position in the Vietnamese automobile market in the month.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam held a meeting with visiting Chinese Premier Li Qiang on October 12 evening in Hanoi.

Peach farmers in Hanoi's Phu Thuong and Nhat Tan wards have started planting young trees to replace those that have been damaged by serious floods triggered by the Typhoon Yagi.

A new Military History Museum in Hanoi is opening to visitors on November 1, featuring over 150,000 objects.

A rare serow trapped in a protective forest in the central province of Nghe An Province's Tuong Duong District has been successfully rescued.

Staff from Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport have returned a backpack containing over USD15,000 and some personal papers to a passenger who somehow left it at the airport.

The Vietnam Elevator Expo, the largest and only exhibition of its kind in the country, will take place from December 5-7, 2024 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Two teenagers have drowned when sailing a boat on a lake at Ben En National Park in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa.

Tourist visits to Sapa Town in Lao Cai Province and Ha Giang Province have plummeted despite the peak season.

HCM City is focusing more on attracting remittance from overseas Vietnamese into the city’s socio-economic development through many policies, including issuing bonds for infrastructure projects.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and other ASEAN leaders attended the closing ceremony of the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and related meetings in Vientiane, Laos, which was marked by the handover of the ASEAN Chairmanship

The southern province of Binh Dinh is urging the conversion of 250 hectares of forest, and use of another 240 hectares of forest land and over 356 hectares of rice farmland for the construction of the North-south expressway.

Authorities in the northern coastal city of Haiphong have evacuated hundreds of households from old apartment buildings that have begun to teeter in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh joined leaders of other ASEAN member countries and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the 12th ASEAN-US Summit in Vientiane on October 11.

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training today, October 11, issued a document banning students from using mobile phones in the classroom.

All Vietnamese students competing at Asian, Asia-Pacific, and global Olympiads this year won prizes, the Ministry of Education and Training has announced.