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The Dien Bien Phu Marathon 2024 unfolded amidst the picturesque landscapes in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien on January 14, with 1,500 athletes at home and abroad taking part.

The Hanoi municipal People’s Committee has decided to hold a series of fireworks shows at 32 venues across the capital on February 10, which will be the Lunar New Year’s Eve.

Vietnam's tourism industry has set a target to welcome 17-18 million foreign visitors in 2024, approaching the pre-pandemic record in 2019 when COVID-19 had yet to disrupt global travel.

A volcano on Suwanose Island in southwestern Japan erupted just after midnight local time on Sunday, the country's weather agency said.

Currently 70 per cent of businesses have changed their strategies and have had many export orders.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Indonesian President Joko Widodo co-chaired a high-level business dialogue in Hanoi on January 13 morning as part of the latter’s state visit to Vietnam.

Police operating in Da Nang said on January 13 that they have co-operated with their counterparts in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern province of Binh Duong to bust a major loan shark ring headed by a Chinese

The HCM City Forest Protection Department has cooperated with U Minh Thuong National Park in the southern province of Kien Giang to release many wild animals.

2023 marked a significant milestone for the forestry sector as Vietnam successfully sold 10.3 million forest carbon credits for the first time through the World Bank for 51.5 million USD.

Vietnam has raised nearly VND9.50 trillion (nearly USD388 million) to implement a 1-billion-tree-growing project over the past three years.

Vietnamese representative Doan Thu Thuy has officially unveiled the outfit that she will wear during the semifinals of Miss Global 2023, which is scheduled to take place on January 13 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The launching ceremony of Three Country Chapters in ASEAN of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area Entrepreneurs Alliance took place in Ho Chi Minh City on the evening of January 12.

Based on the GDP growth rate in 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has set a target of increasing export turnover this year by roughly 6%, equivalent to US$377 billion, with the trade balance maintaining a surplus of

Sixty international cruise ships with a total of some 80,000 passengers aboard have registered to dock at Ha Long International Port in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh this year, according to the provincial Department of Tourism.

The Ministry of Defence on Friday conducted a ceremony to announce the President's Decision assigning five officers for United Nations peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic and South Sudan.

In the face of the worsening air pollution, Hanoi is rolling out measures to control activities that generate emissions and dust in the locality, especially the burning of rice straw.

Former minister of health Nguyễn Thanh Long has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for accepting bribes in the COVID-19 test kit case, while Việt Á general director Phan Quốc Việt was jailed for 29 years in total,

Vietnamese national team head coach Philippe Troussier removed four names on January 12 to name a final list of 26 players to register with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) ahead of the 2023 Asian Cup finals in Qatar.