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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.

The US Mission to Vietnam introduces the 2024 Fulbright Specialist Programme for STEM fields which invites Vietnamese institutions to apply for the opportunity to host Fulbright specialists for periods ranging from two to six weeks.

Police in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai announced on Tuesday that they had found a man and his daughter who had been reported missing for many days.

A delegation of Naval Region Region 2 departed on Tuesday to bring Tet Lunar New Year gifts to soldiers serving on Vietnam’s DK1 platforms on the country’s southern continental shelf.

Authorities of the central province of Quang Tri have auctioned off abandoned vessels found drifting onto local beaches.

As many as 11 yachts in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race 2023-2024 will arrive at Ha Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh in February.

A man in the central province of Binh Thuan has voluntarily handed over to local forest rangers a monkey he raised for 16 years.

The Vietnamese market is expected to welcome 230,500 more enterprises, both newly established and those resuming operations, in 2024, according to the General Statistics Office.

The central city of Da Nang topped the country in of the Environmental Protection Performance Indicators 2022 (PEPI 2022) with 73.33 points.

As many as 14 international cruise ships carrying 15,400 passengers on board are scheduled to dock at Tien Sa port during the first two months of the year.