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The Vietnam International Travel Mart Hanoi 2024, slated to take place from April 11-14 under the theme "Vietnam tourism - Green transition for sustainable development," is said to closely follow a new global trend of "Net zero tours".

Vietnamese weightlifter Trinh Van Vinh clinched a coveted spot at the Paris 2024 Olympics with a dominant performance at the ongoing 2024 International Weightlifting Federation World Cup in Thailand.

More than 100 workers from the Hoa Khanh-Da Nang Textile Joint Stock Company in the central city of Danang have gathered to protest against slow payment and poor policies.

Activists welcomed the Thai senate passing the first reading of a bill to legalise same-sex marriage Tuesday, bringing the kingdom another step closer to becoming the first Southeast Asian country to recognise marriage equality.

The Vietnam Denmark Friendship Association and the Embassy of Denmark have announced the names of 62 individual winners and three group prizewinners of the Denmark in Your Eyes 2023 painting contest.

A decrease in deposit interest rates has been recorded in a number of banks from the beginning of April.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai is leading a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 2024 Vietnam Executive Leadership Programme (VELP) held at Harvard University in Boston, the US, from April 1-3.

A man in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has handed over a rare python weighing 85 kilos to the provincial forest rangers.

Frigate Vendémiaire of the French Navy will pay a goodwill visit to Da Nang, central Vietnam, from April 11 to 15, according to the French Embassy in Hanoi.

Politburo member, permanent member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Secretariat and Chairwoman of the CPV Central Committee’s Organisation Commission Trương Thị Mai is leading a high-level delegation on a working visit to Japan.

Lại Gia Thành won first title for Vietnam at the International Weightlifting Federation World Cup on April 1 in Phuket, Thailand.

The Customs Department in the northern coastal city of Haiphong have seized nearly 1.6 tonnes of ivory illegally imported into the city by sea.

Several houses have been burnt down in a large fire which spread to a residential area in HCM City on Monday night.

Marine aquaculture plays a crucial role in reducing pressure on natural exploitation, increasing oceanic value, biodiversity, and promoting sustainable development, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan said on April 1.

The ASEAN Future Forum 2024 (AFF 2024) will take place in Hanoi on April 23, with over 200 delegates taking part, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet told an international press conference in Hanoi on April 1.

HCM City will see more intense hot weather this month with the highest temperature of more than 38 degrees centigrade.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has signed a decision to approve the general planning of Nha Trang City by 2040.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) and Department of Animal Health (DAH) have just celebrated the success of USAID’s Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection project, which has worked in

At least 10 students in Nha Trang City have been hospitalised after eating chicken rice from a vendor near their school.