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Pilots on a Japan Airlines plane that burst into flames just after all 379 passengers and crew escaped had no "visual contact" with the other aircraft in the collision, the airline said Thursday.

The increasing demand for trading and travelling during the Lunar New Year holiday will pose a high risk of disease outbreaks, especially those transmitted through the respiratory systems, according to the Center for Disease Control of Ho Chi Minh

Air carriers said they are prepared for busy end-of-year holiday travel as the 2024 Lunar New Year (Tết) approaches.

Asian markets continued their disappointing start to the year Thursday, tracking another loss on Wall Street after minutes from the Federal Reserve's December meeting dampened hopes for an early interest rate cut.

CT Group has recommended raising USD9.98 billion to implement the HCM City-Can Tho railway project through a public-private partnerships (PPP).

HCM City has been forecasted to witness an early heatwave at the beginning of this year, according to the Southern Hydro-meteorological Station.

World-leading travel news source Travel Off Path has listed Vietnam as the safest country to visit in Asia for 2024.

A troop of eight rare monkeys which were cared for by an elderly woman in the central province of Quang Ngai has been handed over to Kon Ka Kinh National Park in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

Generative AI is expected to contribute 14 trillion VND (574.83 million USD) to the Vietnamese digital economy by 2030, Dang Huu Son, co-founder of LovinBot AI and Vice Chairman of the local digital human resources development alliance AIID, has said.

Several officials in Ninh Hai District in the southern province of Ninh Thuan have been given warnings for land management violations which has led to the construction of a rash of illegal tourism facilities on Vinh Hy Bay.

The Hanoi Department of Transport has proposed to spend VND21.39 trillion (USD883.88 million) on three belt road projects to help ease the city’s traffic jams.

Soloists of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will perform a concert at the Opera House on January 6 to welcome the New Year.

The site clearance for a section of a belt road in Hanoi has been finished after 14 years.

The Ministry of Transport has proposed to the government to add nearly VND1 trillion (USD 41 million) to complete works on the My Thuan-Can Tho Expressway.

Asian markets fell Wednesday in line with a sell-off across most of the world as traders took their cash off the table after a blockbuster end to 2023, with eyes now on the release this week of Federal Reserve

A pig farm in the southern province of Binh Duong has been found to have discharged untreated wastewater into the Be River.

Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone and his spouse will pay an official visit to Vietnam from January 6-7 at the invitation of Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh.

The Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology has placed orders for 10 types of vaccines used in the expanded programme on immunisation for allocation and distribution to localities in the early days of this month.

Phan Thiet-Dau Giay Expressway linking the two provinces of Binh Thuan and Dong Nai has been put into operation for eight months but remains partially unfinished.