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The launch of the ASEAN Blue Economy Innovation Project to protect marine ecosystems, which are crucial for maintaining the bloc’s environment and economy, took place in Jakarta on May 14.

The Danish Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Jacob Jensen, is leading a delegation to visit Vietnam from May 14-16.

Rescuers recovered more bodies on Tuesday after weekend flash floods and cold lava flow on Indonesia's Sumatra island killed at least 57 people and left another 22 missing, provincial officials said.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) officially announced on May 14 that Hua Hien Vinh will be the head coach of the Vietnamese U19 men’s national team.

HCM City has prepared for around 5,000 runners to join a night run this weekend.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed to issue a dispatch to relevant ministries, agencies, and localities, asking for strengthened measures to manage electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco.

The Chinese business community plays a very important role in making economic, trading, and investment co-operation both a bright spot and an important pillar in the mutual relationship between the two countries.

Over 100 irrigation lakes are drying up with water below dead level amid prolonged drought in the central region.

A French climber died on Mount Makalu, the world's fifth-highest peak, expedition organisers said Tuesday, the second fatality of this year's spring climbing season and both on the same mountain.

Authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap have just announced a list of 62 restaurants offering dishes made from lotus, a local speciality.

The first batch of Thanh Ha lychees from the northern province of Hai Duong is set to be transported to Australia by air on May 14, according to details given by Red Dragon Service Trading Manufacture Company Limited.

The Earth experienced its strongest geomagnetic storm in two decades on May 10, with Vietnam directly in its path.

A landslide killed at least three workers and injured another at a coal mine in the northern province of Quang Ninh on Monday.

Vietnam was the fastest growing digital economy in ASEAN in 2022 and 2023 and it is expected to maintain this position until 2025, with the number of smartphones users anticipated to reach 67.3 million by 2026, accounting for 96.9%

10 athletes from the Vietnamese gymnastics team have departed Vietnam for Tashkent in Uzbekistan to compete at Asian Gymnastics Championships which is scheduled to be held from May 16 to May 19.

A 340-kilo bomb left from the American War was dismantled and safely detonated in the central province of Nghe An on May 13.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Poland Ha Hoang Hai has committed to accompanying and supporting Vietnamese traders and labourers hit by a fire that broke out in a shopping centre in Warsaw on early May 12.

The Vietnamese data centre market is capturing the attention of foreign investors due to high demand, according to JLL's comprehensive market report on the nation’s data centre sector.

Vietnam ranks second in the world of cryptocurrency ownership, with 21.2 per cent of the population adopting crypto, according to data from the Crypto payment gateway Triple-A.