Society

Hoi An and Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam are the two destinations standing in the winner list of World’s Best Awards 2023 as the favourite cities in Asia, voted by readers of by US travel magazine Travel Leisure.

Child marriage and consanguineous (blood-related) marriage have existed for a long time in ethnic groups in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bằng.

President Vo Van Thuong and his spouse left Hanoi on July 23 morning for an official visit to Austria, a State visit to Italy and a visit to the Vatican.

The death toll from a massive landslide in India's Maharashtra state jumped to 27 on Sunday, with at least 50 people still missing as rescue teams struggle in lashing rain, officials said.

The People’s Council of central Da Nang city has approved free schooling for students from kindergarten to high school in the 2023-2024 academic year with a budget of 408 billion VND (16.3 million USD).

The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin Victims and the National Humanitarian Portal (Portal 1400) jointly launched an SMS text campaign in support of Agent orange/dioxin victims.

President Vo Van Thuong and his wife are set pay official visits to Austria, Italy, and the Vatican from July 23 to July 28 at the invitations of President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Italy Sergio

Many HCM City travel companies have launched waterway tours with attractive discounts.

The Vietnamese team’s brave performance won the hearts of Vietnamese fans everywhere, despite losing 0-3 to the reigning world champions US in their first group match in Auckland, New Zealand, on July 22.

A notorious Indonesian animal market has ended the sale of dog and cat meat after years of activist pressure to stop the trade and its brutal methods of slaughter, according to campaigners.

Tourists from the Philippines make up the biggest spenders, with their spending rising from US$1,124 in 2017 to US$2,257 in 2019 per trip during their trip to Vietnam.

The chairmen of two communes in the central highlands province of Lam Dong's Bao Lam District have been suspended as local authorities continue to investigate the killing of hundreds of pine trees in a local forest.

Prices of apartments in Hanoi have increased by 73 percent since the first quarter of 2019 according to a report on the local real estate market in the second quarter of 2023 released by real estate consultancy company Savills Vietnam.

A vegetarian restaurant in the central city of Danang has provided free meals to disadvantaged people.

HCM City is facing a high risk of lacking hand, foot and mouth medicines amid increasing number of patients.

Phu Quoc island city in the southern province of Kien Giang has been seriously inundated due to heavy rains.

President Vo Van Thuong received visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in Hanoi on July 21.

The Central Highlands and the southern regions have been forecasted to face heavy rain from July 21.