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The Mekong River Basin is currently facing unprecedented challenges that need to be addressed soon to ensure water security and support sustainable development of countries in the region, said PM Pham Minh Chinh.

The HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases received 140 patients with liver abscesses in the first three months of this year, up four-fold against last year.

Indian police have arrested five men accused of conducting a human sacrifice, nearly four years after the discovery of the victim's headless body at a Hindu temple left officers baffled.

The Hanoi Tourism Department has just sent a letter to travel firms asking them not to include the well-known train street to ensure safety.

Three people in a family in the southern province of Binh Duong died after a tree fell on their electric wire on Tuesday afternoon.

A Thai man died after falling from the third floor of Terminal 2 at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport on April 4.

The real estate sector ranks second in foreign direct investment attraction in the first quarter of 2023 with 766 million USD, accounting for 14.1% of total FDI.

A rash of illegal traps to catch wild animals have been discovered on Son Tra Peninsula in the central city of Danang.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Chinese Premier Li Qiang agreed on cooperation orientations between the two countries in the time ahead, during their phone talks on April 4.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 4 afternoon departed Hanoi for Laos to attend the fourth Mekong River Commission (MRC) Summit at the invitation of his Lao counterpart Sonexay Siphandone.

The Vietnam Sports Administration is considering reducing the number of delegate members to the upcoming SEA Games 32 in Cambodia by 20 percent due to financial problems.

Many Vietnamese people are visiting family graves to show their love and respect for the deceased at the beginning of the year.

Developers of social housing projects buyers of this kind of houses are entitled to benefit from a credit package worth 120 trillion VND which was started by the State Bank of Vietnam earlier this month.

Traffic accidents killed a total of 1,436 people and injured 917 others in during the first three months of the year, marking decreases of 14.3% and 3.2% respectively against the same period from last year.

Vietnamese students teams won two second prizes for technologies to monitor water level and measure soil moisture in a contest initiated by the Mekong River Commission.

Australian Governor-General David Hurley and his spouse Linda Hurley arrived in Hanoi on April 3 afternoon, beginning their State visit to Vietnam at the invitation of President Vo Van Thuong.

Nearly 300 homeless children and people living on the streets in HCM City have been accommodated in centres in the first quarter of this year, the municipal people's committee has said.

Nearly 800 workers at a footwear company in the southern province of Dong Nai have just lost their jobs after the company closed due to a lack of orders.

The Asian Development Bank raised its 2023 growth forecast for developing Asia on Tuesday, after China's abrupt loosening of Covid-19 restrictions and reopening of its borders brightened the region's prospects.