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Roughly 60,000 Vietnamese enterprises closed their doors in the first three months of this year, representing an on-year increase of 17.4 percent.

Vietnam has reported an on-year gross domestic product growth of about 3.32 percent in the first quarter of this year, the growth nears the 13-year lowest level, according to the General Statistics Office.

The Government has recently urged ministries to take measures to help the realty sector get back on track and sustain its healthy growth.

A crab covered in oil creeps across the sand as Philippine fishermen wearing white protective suits, rubber gloves, and respirator masks scrape toxic sludge from the rocks along the shore.

Two whales have been found dead on a beach in the central province of Ha Tinh.

Two monkeys have appeared in a residential area in Hanoi’s Hoang Mai District over the past three months, affecting local people.

The lunch with fried rice, fried chicken, chips and meat soup might have poisoned 50 students at the Kim Giang Primary School on Tuesday.

A group of young volunteers have caught feral cats in HCM City for their Trap - Neuter- Release activities, which aim to reduce the population of feral cats in the area.

PM Pham Minh Chinh received Wang Ning, Secretary of the Yunnan provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the provincial People's Congress.

Cam Ranh International Airport in Khanh Hoa province, central Vietnam, on March 28 received Viettravel Airlines’ first charter flight from Daegu, the Republic of Korea.

Around 10,000 discounted tours will be offered at Vietnam International Travel Mart 2023 which is scheduled to take place in Hanoi next month.

Vietnam attracted nearly 5.45 billion USD worth of foreign investment in the first quarter of the year, down 39% year-on-year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The Australian Government Trade and Investment Commission cooperated with the Electricity & Renewable Energy Department – Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam and Vietnam Electricity Group to organise the Energy Transformation Forum 2023, held in Hanoi on March 28.

A 49-year-old elephant in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has died from illness and exhaustion.

Many central localities have been warned of the risk of flooding in low-lying areas due to heavy rain.

Outbound tours to both Asia and Europe seem to be particularly interesting for Vietnamese travelers during the coming five-day break marking National Reunification Day (on April 30) and May Day (May 1).

The founder of a project that campaigned for girls' education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the United Nations said Tuesday.

Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) in the year’s first quarter edged up around 4.3% year-on-year, showed official data.

Japan's government has made tackling its falling birth rate a top priority, but with few women involved in official debate on the issue, some are making themselves heard on social media.