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Two consecutive tremors were reported in Kon Plong district in the Central Highlands of Kon Tum province during the early morning of March 9, according to the Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Centre under the Institute of Geophysics of Vietnam.

The southern province of Dong Nai’s authorities have agreed to build three bridges linking HCM City.

Four crew are missing from a barge that sunk due to strong winds off the coast of the southern central province of Binh Thuan.

A truck plunged off the Ma Pi Leng Hill in the mountainous province of Ha Giang on Wednesday, killing the driver.

China will officially resume tours to Vietnam beginning from March 15 after a three-year Covid-19 hiatus, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Booking.com, the world's leading digital travel brand, has named Cat Ba town in the northern port city of Hai Phong among this year’s top 10 friendliest destinations in Vietnam.

Around 107 construction works in HCM City have illegally encroached on local riverbanks and canals, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

Authorities in the central city of Danang are checking information relating to two foreign tourists seen begging for money on a local street.

HCM City has continued witnessing a declining fertility rate, standing among 21 localities in the country with a low fertility rate.

Seven more among 79 illegally-built villas on Phu Quoc island in the southern province of Kien Giang have been dismantled, said Le Quoc Anh, vice chairman of the Kien Giang Province People’s Committee.

A ceremony took place at the Japanese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City on March 7 to sign a contract on the funding of three projects in Vietnam at a total value of 252,528 USD.

The collapse of a coal mine in northern China last month left a total of 53 people "missing or dead", a top official has said, as search and rescue work appeared to come to an end.

Expanding the tax base and increasing environmental protection tax on non-biodegradable packaging materials would be considered with an aim to limit the use of these materials.

The Minh Tri Thanh Company has donated VND500 million for a school project in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai following a recent article calling for support from Dantri/Dtinews Online Newspaper.

Flower and gift shops and supermarkets in HCM City have launched promotions and exciting events on the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8).

Pig prices in Vietnam have witnessed their sharpest fall for two years due to low demand.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on March 7 received a visiting delegation of Japanese economic organisations, who are in Vietnam to attend the Vietnam-Japan high-level economic conference.

The export prices of Vietnamese rice in the first two months of 2023 rose by 9.8 per cent year-on-year to US$528.5 per tonne, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The US and Vietnamese officials on Tuesday announced a new contract of up to USD73 million to treat and clean soil at Bien Hoa Air Base.