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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.

Hanoi remained the most expensive place to live for a fifth consecutive year in Vietnam, according to the 2023 Spatial Cost of Living Index report released by the General Statistics Office.

For the first time Vietnam will play host to the World Pickleball Championship Series – Asia Pacific in April.

Two tourists from Spain have sent a letter to police in Phong Nha Town, Quang Binh Province thanking them for helping find their lost belongings.

Nearly 100 Vietnamese and Vietnamese-origin people from 20 countries gathered at the Vietnam Global Leaders Forum (VGLF 2024) held in Paris on March 30-31.

Ho Chi Minh City’s first metro line, which stretches from Ben Thanh Market in District 1 to Suoi Tien Theme Park in Thu Duc City, is scheduled to operate its first seven trains in July.

Over a million fries of various fish species were released into the sea near Cat Ba Island in the north-eastern city of Hai Phong on March 31, aiming to regenerate and increase the diversity of fishery resources in the area.