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The US Mission Vietnam has just announced the 2025 competition for the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Programme.

The German Embassy hosted its first discussion of the “Hanoi Climate Talks” series on May 8.

Coffee prices have continued falling while local traders have reduced transactions.

A high-speed ferry connecting Con Dao Island in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Ho Chi Minh City will start operation on May 13.

The potential reduction in interest rates by the Fed is expected to open up favourable investment opportunities in Vietnamese stocks, particularly in key sectors such as banking, import-export, retail, materials, industrial parks, technology and businesses with high dividend yields.

More than 22,000 residents on Ly Son Island in the central province of Quang Ngai are facing fresh water shortages due to saline intrusion and underground water sources running out.

A total of 32 teams have begun their attempt to win the 2024 Vietnam Robot Contest (Robocon Vietnam) in the final round.

A fire in a Hoi An City car park this morning, May 8, destroyed 40 electric cars.

The police have detained four players of Hong Linh Ha Tinh FC, a V-League football team, for investigations after the four players used banned substances in a hotel in Ha Tinh province, central Vietnam.

Expediting the enforcement of the 2024 Land Law would stimulate the supply of social housing and encourage enterprises to be more assertive in participating in the development of this segment, experts predict.

Local gold shops have seen long queues due to rising sales.

Thailand’s number of COVID-19 cases continued to rise over the past week from April 28 to May 4, with 1,792 people hospitalised and 12 succumbed to the disease, according to the country’s Department of Disease Control.

The police force of the northern province of Hà Giang and the border post at the locality’s Thanh Thủy International Border Gate handed over four illegal Chinese migrants back to their home country on May 7.

The Paris Court of Appeals has yet to rule on Vietnamese French dioxin victim’s lawsuit against American chemical firms that supplied herbicides to the US army during the war in Vietnam, following a three-and-a-half-hour hearing on May 7.

Doctors at the Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital in Hanoi have been telling reporters of their success in completing a first-time liver transplant for a patient with acute liver failure.

Vietnam’s industrial real estate industry is expected to continue its strong growth trajectory due to foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows benefiting from tax incentives.

Many households at an apartment building in HCM City have had to use seriously polluted water due to damaged pipelines.

Two people were dead and 21 wounded after a man went on a stabbing spree at a hospital in southwest China on Tuesday, local officials said.