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Ethiopian Airlines, the national flag carrier of Ethiopia, will launch its first direct flight from Addis Ababa to Hanoi on July 10, following approval from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.

Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh attended the opening ceremony of the 2025 BRICS Summit, along with leaders of BRICS member states and partner countries, in Brazil on July 6 (local time).

PM Chinh expressed his joy at meeting President Lula da Silva for the 5th time, a close and beloved friend of Vietnam and its people.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has arrived in Brazil, starting his participation in the expanded BRICS Summit and bilateral activities in the country.

The Department of Traffic Police under the Ministry of Public Security has recorded and handled 33 cases of drivers using mobile phones or electronic devices while operating vehicles on expressways.

Two participants, including a South Korean national, were hospitalised for exhaustion during a night race in Ho Chi Minh City on June 29, according to 115 People’s Hospital.

Vietnam values cooperative ties with ASEAN member states, including Thailand, for the sake of peace, stability, and development in the region and the world.

PM Pham Minh Chinh left Hanoi on July 4 afternoon for Brazil to attend the expanded BRICS summit and engage in bilateral activities, at the invitation of Brazilian President Lula da Silva.

A 500-kilogramme wartime bomb has been safely detonated after being discovered in the garden of a household in Thanh Linh Commune, Nghe An Province.

Police in Dak Lak Province have fined a driver VND 5 million (approximately USD 197) and deducted two points from his driving licence after he drove an SUV onto a beach crowded with swimmers.

Ho Chi Minh City will deploy rotating doctors to Con Dao Island starting in September, with priority given to obstetrics, emergency services, and paediatrics.

Authorities in Tay Ninh Province on July 3 received 38 Vietnamese citizens deported from Cambodia for working illegally.

A 10-year-old girl from Dak Lak Province has been hospitalised after being attacked by a monkey while visiting a stream in Quang Tri Province.

The expansion of Phu Quoc International Airport in the southern province of Kien Giang is being accelerated to ensure the project is completed ahead of schedule.

A resident in Gia Lai Province used a drone to rescue two children who were trapped in the middle of a fast-flowing flood on July 3, according to local authorities.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his spouse will lead a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam to attend the expanded BRICS summit and engage in bilateral activities in Brazil from July 4 – 8.

Vietnam has affirmed that all survey activities within its Exclusive Economic Zone and continental shelf without permission constitute a violation of its sovereignty and jurisdiction.

A couple in Phu Tho Province have come forward for a DNA test after recognising several details from a recent Dantri/Dtinews article about a French woman searching for her Vietnamese birth parents.

Four people have been confirmed dead, 38 are missing, and 23 others survived after a passenger ship sank in the Bali Strait of Indonesia early Thursday.