Society

New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters arrived in Hanoi on June 5 for a two-day visit to Vietnam to outline new directions for cooperation between the two countries.

A woman and her child have been swept away in a flash flood which struck Bat Xat District's Ban Vuoc Commune in the mountainous province of Lao Cai early Thursday morning.

Many streets in Hanoi struggled with severe traffic congestion on Thursday morning due to heavy rain.

Australia's online watchdog on Wednesday dropped a legal effort to force Elon Musk's X to remove posts depicting the violent stabbing of a Sydney priest.

Three teenage girls have drowned while swimming in the Saigon River in the southern province of Binh Duong.

The director of the Bac Huong Hoa Nature Reserve, Ha Van Hoan, has announced that the 80 camera traps they have installed to monitor biodiversity have captured 32 rare and endangered wildlife species.

A woman in the northern province of Thai Binh has committed suicide after killing her father and her son.

The Double Impro from Belgium are set to take part in the Hue Festival 2024 this June, bringing with them special shows including improvisation between artists and audiences, reflecting the art innovation, and breaking the traditional norms of hip-hop

An American man has been rescued off the central province of Quang Ngai by local fishermen.

A foreign resident of Japan unwittingly lived under a fake identity for six months until it came to light that he had been mixed up with an uncannily similar stranger.

The first flight from Hanoi to Melbourne by Vietjet landed on June 4, marking the airline's sixth route connecting Vietnam and Australia.

Hackers carried out a ransomware attack on the information technology system of the Vietnam Post Corporation (Vietnam Post) on June 4 morning, causing disruption to the firm’s operations.

British magazine TimeOut has placed Ho Chi Minh City in the fourth position among its list of the world’s leading 20 cities for food.

Cable car prices in Cat Ba Island in the northern city of Haiphong have considerably fallen, attracting more tourists to the island.

Hundreds of people sheltered in evacuation centres on Tuesday after a volcano erupted in the central Philippines.

Although Vietnam has large reserves of rare earth minerals at approximately 30 million tonnes, exploitation and processing have yet to be comprehensively researched and examined, a NA deputy said.

Papua New Guinea authorities have warned there is a high risk of more landslides at the site of a recent deadly disaster, with government experts demanding the area be evacuated and declared a "no-go-zone".

The central province of Quang Binh's Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park Management Board has announced a project to boost tourism in the area calling for investment in nine destinations and 11 tourist routes by 2030.

Four Paws International, a global animal welfare organisation, officially launched a trans-Vietnam tour themed 'Journey of Love' on June 3 to convey a message of ending the dog and cat meat trade in the country.