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Five months after being piloted in Hanoi's Ha Dong District, the electric bike rental service has seen only a few riders.

Danang Police have just seized nine kilos of drugs which were hidden in tea packs being transported from Quang Tri Province.

Four provinces in the southern part of the Red River Delta, namely Ninh Binh, Ha Nam, Nam Dinh, and Thai Binh, have been taking steps to tap into their natural advantages to develop agricultural and rural tourism.

Vietnam is among the 15 countries with the largest number of adult male smokers in the world mainly due to easy access to cigarettes triggered by the low tobacco tax and emergence of various types of e-cigarettes.

Authorities in the central coastal province of Quang Ngai are planning to search for an old ship that might have sunk in local waters after ceramic objects were found in the area.

Asian markets tracked losses in Wall Street on Wednesday as investors grow increasingly concerned about stalled US debt ceiling talks to avert a painful default.

The State Bank of Vietnam has announced two decisions to further reduce policy interest rates, which will become effective from May 25, 2023.

A giant panda on loan to Thailand from China that died last month had suffered blood clots caused by old age, Thai zoo officials said in a statement Tuesday.

Model Hoang Duc Trung will represent the nation by participating in the Mister Altitude World (MAW) 2023 pageant, with the grand final of the competition set to take place on May 27 in Thailand.

Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang is paying a visit to the central city of Danang.

There were no survivors after a fishing vessel carrying 39 crew members from China, Indonesia and the Philippines capsized last week in the Indian Ocean, according to an initial government probe released on Tuesday.

The World Health Organization is urgently contacting to find a source of rare drugs to support Vietnam in treating botulinum poisoning cases, according to details given by the Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health.

The emergence of several Asian markets such as Vietnam, India and Indonesia offer a ‘golden opportunity’ for Apple, according to the US cable news network CNN.

A poor woman in Phu Yen Province is in desperate need of financial help to support her five small children and ill mother after her husband died.

Almost 53.9 trillion VND (2.29 billion USD) in state capital was saved in 2022 as reported by ministries, sectors, and localities, according to the Government.

A student and a parent died on a trip to visit Xuan Thuy National Park in the northern province of Nam Dinh on May 20.

Vietnam is seeing a great opportunity to access the mRNA technology for vaccine production, said Patrick Haverman, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Vietnam.

Optimism that the United States will avert a calamitous default supported equities Tuesday, with President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy saying they held productive talks on the debt ceiling.

The HCM City Transport Department has just proposed to completely ban sleeper buses from central areas after a pilot period.