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Representatives from the Australian Embassy in Vietnam recently visited the Hoang Lien centre for wildlife rescue, conservation and development in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai to work on the care for suspectedly smuggled wallabies.

At least three young men have been killed and two others suffered serious injuries after their two motorbikes collided in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa on Friday evening.

Around 200 livestock in Vietnam’s northern mountainous localities have died due to the on-going bitter cold front.

A Singapore court sentenced a South African man to two years in jail on Friday for smuggling rhino horns, the heaviest sentence ever handed down in the city-state for trafficking wildlife parts.

Many streets in Hanoi’s Old Quarter have now become colourful markets which display lots of decoration items for the traditional Tet Lunar New Year Festival.

Dozens of objects from the American War have badly deteriorated while displayed outdoors at the Thua Thien-Hue History Museum.

Hanoi has attracted more than US$41.1 billion in foreign direct investment to rank second in the country behind only Ho Chi Minh City in terms of FDI, according to the Foreign Investment Department under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

A delegation of the State Audit Office of Vietnam attended the 22nd meeting of the Working Group on Environmental Auditing of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions held in Finland from January 22 to 25.

A pedestrian tunnel in Hanoi has become a popular place for residents to do exercise as the temperature falls to between 8-11 degrees centigrade.

Authorities in the central city of Danang and the US Agency for International Development on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enhance development cooperation.

A centre for digital transformation (DXCentre) was recently set up in Ho Chi Minh City with a view to supporting agencies, organisations, and enterprises in going digitalised and studying, piloting, and transferring digital technology products.

A cruise ship from China’s Hainan Province arrived at Ha Long Bay this morning, January 26, bringing around 400 tourists.

A group of people were spotted whisking away 10 kilos of seafood into their bag at a buffet in Hanoi.

A monkey which caused chaos at a residential area in Nha Be District’s Hiep Phuoc Commune has been caught.

Hundreds of container trucks have been stuck at the road leading to Laos-Vietnam International Port as vessels have been unable to enter due to bad weather.

Seven people are missing and four others were rescued at sea after two small passenger boats capsized in bad weather off the western Philippine island of Palawan, police said Friday.

The surge in travel demand during Tet (Lunar New Year) is a favourable condition for diseases to spread, including COVID-19, a health official of Ho Chi Minh City has said.

Remittances to Vietnam in 2023 reached over USD16 billion, marking a year-on-year increase of 32 percent, the State Bank of Vietnam announced on Thursday.

Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. and his spouse are set to pay a state visit to Vietnam from January 29 to 30.