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Contestant Bui Vu Xuan Nghi left Vietnam on June 15 for Cambodia where she is competing for a title at Miss Teen International 2023.

A new severe heat wave with temperatures reaching upto 39 degrees Celsius is hitting the central region from today and expanding to the northern region from Saturday.

Ho Chi Minh City has removed 988 unlicensed dumping grounds and turned 243 others into parks and vegetable gardens.

A bomb weighing 250 kilos with its detonator intact has just been found at the Lam River in the northern central province of Nghe An.

Many hotels and homestays in Ha Long City in the northern province of Quang Ninh are struggling with booking cancellations amid repeated power outages.

Customs officers at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi seized USD352,000 and EUR245,900 (USD265,261) illegally transported by five people on two international flights.

Japan's age of consent was raised from 13, among the world's lowest, to 16 years old on Friday as lawmakers passed key reforms to sex crime legislation.

A group of students in HCM City are offering free meals to homeless people.

COVID-19 patients will not be given free treatment when the disease is downgraded from its current placement in Class A infectious diseases to Class B, said Deputy Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Liên Hương.

Singapore will "progressively deploy" more patrol robots across the city-state, police said Thursday, after more than five years of small-scale trials.

The 17,943-tonne container ship Ever Chaste from the Hai Phong port docked at the Republic of Korea’s Ulsan port on June 15, marking the opening of a new regular container shipping route between the two ports.

Bamboo Airways reported its biggest ever loss of VND17.60 trillion (USD741.39) last year as costs skyrocketed.

Many young people in Hanoi spend VND6-7 million (USD252-295) on learning horseback archery.

The US Mission in Vietnam seeks qualified candidates for the 2024 Fulbright Vietnamese Visiting Scholar Program to lecture and/or conduct research at American colleges and universities.

Lam Kim Khanh of Ho Chi Minh City is representing Vietnam at the Man Of The World 2023 pageant which is currently being held in the Philippines.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines officially opened a direct route between Hanoi and Melbourne on June 15, with two round-trip flights per week operating every Thursday and Sunday.

A man in the central province of Nghe An has been fined VND7.50 million for spreading false information about the recent gun attacks in the central highlands province of Dak Lak.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the Philippines on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

Many areas have witnessed heavy rain, which has helped to ease water shortages for hydropower plants.