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Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son on October 11 highly valued Japan’s educational development, and suggested the country share its experience with Vietnam to step up bilateral cooperation in this field.

Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar is scheduled to pay an official visit to Vietnam and co-chair the 18th session of the Vietnam – India Joint Commission on October 15-17.

Around 5,000 women will participate in a festival to honour Vietnam’s most well-known traditional outfits, the long dress or Ao Dai and the traditional southern Vietnamese blouse or Ao Ba Ba.

Vietnam’s consumer price index is projected to grow between 3.2% and 3.6% this year, the Ministry of Finance said at a meeting of the Steering Committee on Price Management in Hanoi on October 11.

More than 90 per cent of those killed in a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan were women and children, UNICEF said Wednesday, as fresh tremors terrorised residents of villages flattened by the disaster.

HCM City authorities have approved the design of a pedestrian bridge for the Saigon River.

Petrol retail prices continued to fall sharply from October 11 following an adjustment by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Ministry of Finance.

The East-West Center (EWC) is offering scholarships for graduate study at the University of Hawai‘i.

Many roads in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have been left under water due to heavy rains.

Two teenagers have died after a fire broke out at their house in the central city of Danang's Thanh Khe District early Wednesday morning.

Vietnam’s central region is experiencing heavy rains with rainfall of up to 300 mm, posing flooding risks for many areas.

The Mekong Delta province of Long An has just reported the first infection of monkeypox, bringing the total number of patients suffering from the disease in Vietnam to 16 with the majority in HCM City.

Border guards in the Mekong Delta Province of An Giang have had to intensify patrols of local waterways to prevent a rising tide of smuggling during the flood season.

Local police have said that two tourists lied about being robbed in the northern province of Cao Bang as part of an attempt to get an insurance payout.

Firms can borrow from the Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise Development Fund with a short-term interest rate of 1.2 per cent per year and a long-term interest rate of 4.4 per cent per year.

Thousands of Afghans who survived a powerful earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people were bracing for a winter of homelessness on Tuesday, as rescuers made last-ditch efforts to find survivors.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamikawa Yoko in Hanoi on October 10, highly valuing his guest’s contributions to the two countries’ relations on different posts she has held over the past years.

Cửa Vạn and Vung Viêng, two renowned fishing villages located in Hạ Long Bay in northern Quảng Ninh Province, are facing severe deterioration, with some structures slowly sinking into the sea.

State President Vo Van Thuong on October 10 received Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa who is on a two-day working trip to Vietnam.