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Authorities in Phu Quy Special Zone, Lam Dong Province, have completed a storm shelter and fishing port project that will allow fishing vessels to seek refuge during the 2026 storm season.

Vietnam has recorded 30 rabies-related deaths across 17 provinces and cities since the start of the year, despite the disease being entirely preventable.

Lam Dong Province will suspend traffic on part of National Highway 28 through Gia Bac Pass from May 20 to allow emergency landslide repairs.

Heavy rain is expected to peak across northern Vietnam on May 20-21, raising risks of flash floods, landslides and urban flooding in several provinces.

Authorities in Ha Tinh Province safely removed and destroyed a live bomb more than one metre long discovered in a resident’s garden during construction work.

Authorities in Lam Dong Province will temporarily restrict traffic through Bao Loc Pass to allow repair work at landslide sites along National Highway 20.

HCM City authorities have tightened health surveillance at airports and border checkpoints amid concerns over the risk of Ebola entering Vietnam following recent outbreaks in Africa.

Authorities in Lam Dong Province planted 1,000 trees at Mai Anh Dao Park in the Tuyen Lam Tuyen Lam National Tourist Area on Tuesday to mark the 136th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s birth.

Vietnam’s Health Ministry has issued an urgent directive to strengthen measures against child drownings and injuries during the summer and rainy season.

Vietnamese leaders and former leaders visited the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi on Tuesday morning to mark the 136th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s birth.

Railway traffic violations in Hanoi have fallen by more than 80 per cent in the first days after Vietnam introduced sharply higher fines for railway safety offences.

Residents in several high-rise buildings in Hanoi felt tremors on Monday evening following a 5.2-magnitude earthquake in southern China.

Five teenagers died in a tragic drowning accident on the Lo River in Phu Tho Province on the afternoon of May 18.

Hanoi authorities have ordered the rapid establishment of a task force to accelerate development of the capital’s nearly 1,000-km metro network for the 2026-2030 period.

Ho Chi Minh City has recorded its first monkeypox case of 2026, according to the city’s health authorities.

Floodwaters on rivers in eastern Quang Ninh Province were receding slowly on May 17 after heavy rain, with authorities warning of landslide risks in mountainous areas.

Showers and thunderstorms are forecast across several parts of Vietnam from May 18 to May 19, with some areas expected to experience heavy to very heavy rain.

Vietnam’s health authorities are strengthening border quarantine measures and monitoring developments in Ebola outbreaks reported in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.

A whale was filmed feeding near the coast of Gia Lai Province on May 17, drawing widespread attention on social media after footage of the rare sighting circulated online.