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More than 3,000 national and international marathoners have registered to participate in the Quang Binh International Marathon 2024, the first of its kind to be held in Dong Hoi city, central Vietnam, on July 28.

Authorities of the southern central province of Khanh Hoa have proposed an investment of VND8 trillion (USD314.34 million) to build Van Phong Airport.

A bridge connecting Haiphong City and the northern province of Quang Ninh was opened to traffic on Wednesday after more than two years of construction.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Thomas Vallely, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Fulbright University Vietnam, and other experts from the university in Hanoi on July 17.

Editors of New York-based travel magazine Travel+Leisure have picked Vietnam’s central Quang Binh province among the top 13 most beautiful places in the world.

Missosology, the world’s leading publication on beauty pageants, on July 16 named Vietnamese beauty Nguyen Phuong Nhi among the Top 20 Timeless Beauty 2023 shortlist.

The 8th Vietnam School on Neutrinos 2024 was opened in the central city of Quy Nhon, the central province of Binh Dinh, on July 16 by the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam is urgently coordinating with the Ministry of Public Security to verify the identities of the victims who were found dead at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 16 evening, said Pham

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has slightly raised its economic growth forecast for developing Asia and the Pacific this year to 5.0% from a previous projection of 4.9%, as rising regional exports complement resilient domestic demand.

Air ticket prices have increased since the beginning of July, the peak summer holiday time.

Many people have continued to swim at a reservoir in the northern province of Hoa Binh despite the hydropower plant's discharging water.

An explosion at a tofu production facility in the northern province of Thai Nguyen left one dead and two others injured.

Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyễn Hồng Diên has suggested the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations provide practical solutions to assist Vietnamese businesses.

A woman in Thanh Hoa Province is calling for financial support to help save her 12-year-old son from a rare cancer.

The Thai police assumed all the six people of Vietnamese origin may have died for about 24 hours before they were found dead at a five-star hotel in Bangkok on July 15.

The State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs kicked off the Vietnam Summer Camp 2024 for young overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in Hanoi on July 16.

Bangladesh ordered schools and universities around the country to close indefinitely on Tuesday after six students were killed in protests that prompted the mobilisation of paramilitaries to keep order.

Six foreign nationals were found dead in a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok on Tuesday, Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said, with police suspecting they were poisoned.

Vietnamese sweet and sour soup, known locally as Canh Chua Cá, has been placed in eighth position in a list of the Top 57 fish soups in the world, as compiled by international food website TasteAtlas.