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A whale has been seen swimming in the waters of Quy Nhon City in the southern central province of Binh Dinh.

Seven rare animals have been released back into the wild at Chu Yang Sin National Park in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

Chief coach Kim Sang-sik made an impressive debut when Vietnam defeated the Philippines 3-2 with a goal in injury time in an emotional match as part of the second qualifying round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Hanoi

Train services on the north-south rail route have been temporarily disrupted after the SE10 train collided with an excavator late Thursday afternoon.

Vietnam's lychee hub of Bac Giang has become busy during harvesting season.

In a major move to safeguard public health and promote more ethical practices, the Hanoi Sub-department of Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Veterinary services (under the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development) has issued a critically important directive in

Hanoi has begun piloting solid waste sorting from this month in 23 wards of five districts.

A landslide at a rare earth mine in Myanmar killed at least five people, including two Chinese citizens, and left at least seven others missing, a worker at the mine and local media reported.

Vietnam on June 6 voiced its opposition to China’s geological survey vessel Haiyang Dizhi 26’s illegal operations in Vietnamese waters and demanded China stop similar actions.

Heavy rains over the past two days have caused landslides in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau.

Part of the Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line, the second of its kind in Hanoi, is scheduled to be put into use in July.

Hanoi has planned to launch a new pedestrian street in Ba Dinh District in September.

The northern mountainous province of Yen Bai experienced a 3-Richter scale magnitude earthquake on Thursday morning, the second reported within the past 10 days.

Retail prices of petrol products were slashed starting 3pm on June 6 by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

Coffee exports are expected to reach an estimated US$2.9 billion in the first five months of this year, according to Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s statistics.

A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted three times on Thursday, belching an ash tower five kilometres into the sky and spewing lava against a backdrop of lightning, according to the Geological Agency.

The northern province of Quang Ninh's Ha Long City has just received a group of Chinese tourists arriving on two passenger buses that came from Guangxi’s Nanning City.

Labour-intensive removal efforts have brought snaring incidents down by almost 40 per cent in a region of central Vietnam, data has shown.

Children scoop jerrycans of murky water from a narrow stream in northern Afghanistan, where a lack of clean water is a looming threat weeks after parts of the country were devastated by flash flooding.