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Dalat City People's Committee issued a fine of VND240 million on Thursday to the DL Royal JSC for illegally building a golf club project on Cu Hill.

The Ministry of Education and Training has issued decisions allowing the operations of four international accreditation organisations in Vietnam, namely ACQUIN, THE-ICE, ACBSP and ABET.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his entourage arrived in Hanoi on January 11 afternoon, starting a three-day State visit to Vietnam at the invitation of Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong.

A bridge project started on Wednesday in the northern mountainous province of Son La, connecting two remote villages in Ngoc Chien Commune, Muong Lat District.

The tourism industry in 2024 has seen positive signals as ocean liners have bustled at ports for the past 10 days, bringing tens of thousands of foreign visitors to Vietnam.

Dengue fever patients and deaths in Vietnam declined last year, but many other diseases increased.

The Vietnamese passport has fallen by five notches to 87th on a list of the world’s most powerful passports, according to the latest report released by Henley Passport Index.

Asian markets rose Thursday as investors gear up for the release of major US inflation data that could have a huge bearing on the Federal Reserve's timetable for cutting interest rates.

Three packages containing drugs have been found on a beach in Binh Son District in the central province of Quang Ngai.

Authorities in the central province of Khanh Hoa are investigating the fire that spread on a local mountain on Wednesday evening.

When Choi Tae-yeon opened her restaurant 20 years ago, dog meat was a good business in South Korea. Now, she says she might have to close up shop, with a new ban on the former delicacy.

The Hanoi Transport Department has just proposed to stop six public bus routes this April.

Standard Chartered Bank expects Vietnam to have a robust GDP growth of 6.7 per cent in 2024 (6.2 per cent and 6.9 per cent in the first half and second half of the year respectively).

More than 1,800 night flights, equivalent to 8% of the total number of domestic flights, will be operated from January 21 to February 25 to meet the increasing travel demand during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

Vietnamese exporters are recommended to gear up and act flexible with response measures in the face of transport disruption in the Red Sea.

A high-speed boat service connecting HCM City and Con Dao Island in the neighbouring province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau will start on February 23.

Doctors from Từ Dũ Hospital and Children’s Hospital 1 in HCM City have successfully performed a foetal cardiac surgery, the first ever not just in Vietnam but in Southeast Asia.

Vietnamese expatriates tend to send home remittances due to global geopolitical insecurities, with the amount expected to rise sharply in the coming days ahead of the lunar New Year festival.

Three-metre (10-foot) tsunami waves were recorded at, but did not damage, a nuclear plant in Japan in the recent earthquake, its operator told AFP on Wednesday more than a week after the incident.