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Four crew members of a sunken fishing boat were rescued on September 17 after drifting for three hours clinging to a styrofoam box in the waters off An Giang Province.

A pilot service to carry around 300 staff and employees on daily commutes from the western to the eastern part of Haiphong City has begun.

Police in HCM City have busted a prostitution den operating out of a restaurant in Tan Hung Ward.

Authorities in Nghe An Province have successfully destroyed a 226-kilo bomb with its detonator still intact, discovered at a construction site in the area.

A truck ploughed into a crowded banana market in Lao Bao Commune, Quang Tri Province on September 17, leaving at least three people dead and seven others injured.

The Dong Nai Construction Investment Project Management Board proposed a VND 4.3 trillion (approximately USD 172 million) project to dredge and renovate the Buong River, aiming to mitigate flooding.

Aside from the UNGA 80's general debate, the leader will also engage in bilateral activities in the US during the trip from September 21 to 24.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man has arrived in Malaysia to attend the 46th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-46) and to pay an official visit to Malaysia.

Cold air masses are expected to intensify in northern localities in November and December, with severe cold spells likely to appear in late December.

Four people in a family were killed after a fire broke out at their house in Hanoi's Thuong Tin Ward early on Tuesday morning.

Nguyen Huu Ha, 47, was found exhausted and panicked on Monday after being lost for three days in Cat Tien National Park, where he had gone alone to forage for mushrooms.

Vietnam Railway Transport JSC will begin selling train tickets for the Tet 2026 Lunar New Year across all channels from September 20.

The Traffic Police Department, in coordination with relevant agencies, will install over 5,000 cameras along expressways, national highways, and urban roads.

Vietnam officially deposited its Instrument of Acceptance of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies (Fish 1) at the WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

At least 18 people, including 10 foreign tourists, were injured on September 15 after a four-vehicle collision on the Cau Gie-Ninh Binh Expressway.

Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko joined his delegation’s doctors in providing emergency care to a passenger who fell ill on Vietnam Airlines flight VN62 from Moscow to Hanoi on September 11.

Alexander admitted he had purchased the firearm in Cambodia in late 2024 for USD 700 for self-defence.

Russia’s Medsintez Plant and Vietnam’s VNVC Vaccine and Biological Manufacturing Plant have signed a comprehensive technology transfer deal to produce new generation biologics.

The Ministry of Construction has agreed on expanding the six-lane Hanoi-Bac Giang Highway to eight lanes following the northern province of Bac Ninh’s proposal.