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The Vietnam Road Administration will pilot a one-month ban on trucks using the first lane of the Hanoi-Haiphong and Phap Van-Cau Gie expressways, starting on August 15.

Many northern localities are expected to experience heavy rain in the coming days.

Tran Hien Vinh, a young man from the southern province of An Giang, is making a determined cycling journey from HCM City to Hanoi to join the celebrations marking the 80th National Day on September 2.

A young man in the southern province of Dong Nai was detained for transporting wild animals to sell.

A fisherman from the Central Highlands Province of Dak Lak survived 24 hours adrift at sea by clinging to a foam board before being rescued by a cargo ship.

A 38-year-old woman in end-stage multi-organ failure has become the first patient in Vietnam to survive a heart-lung transplant.

Dengue fever cases surged in southern localities by over 97 per cent against the whole of 2024 in the first eight months of this year, with severe cases rising rapidly.

Party General Secretary To Lam on August 13 attended the inauguration of Vietnam’s Consulate General in Busan.

A Hanoi-based lawyer has decided to provide free legal defence for Thai Khac Thanh from Nghe An Province, who was sentenced to six years in prison for selling silver pheasants, a protected species.

Several agencies are relocating to hand over the site for the construction of a new square and park on the eastern side of Hoan Kiem Lake.

Two teenagers were killed when a mass of soil and rocks from a hillside collapsed onto a café where they were drinking coffee.

A car suddenly reversed into a crowd in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on Monday evening, killing one child and injuring 11 others.

Singapore is at risk of chikungunya transmission as the number of reported cases this year has more than doubled compared to last year, the country’s Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) has reported.

Pham The Hien Apartments in HCM City have seriously deteriorated, threatening hundreds of residents.

A serious workplace accident at the Quy Nhon-Chi Thanh Expressway construction site in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has killed two and injured one.

Party General Secretary To Lam and President of the Republic of Korea Lee Jae Myung co-chaired a joint press briefing to share the outcomes of their talks on August 11.

Police in Mai Chau ​Commune, Phu Tho ​Province, promptly assisted a Dutch tourist who was injured in a fall on August 10.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued an urgent warning about the risk of a Chikungunya outbreak in Vietnam after numerous cases were reported in Southern China, especially in Guangdong Province.

Party General Secretary To Lam and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation attended the inauguration ceremony of a statue of late President Ho Chi Minh in the Vietnamese Embassy’s campus in Seoul.