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HCM City will hold a food festival next month, which is expected to attract the participation of 40 tourist service providers, including five-star hotels.

The first free night tour to historical sites throughout the central province of Quang Tri has opened for 42 tourists, including a group of Laotian students and people from other localities.

The southern province of Dong Nai has seen positive changes in foreign direct investment in the first two months of this year as its newly-licensed projects use advanced technology, are less labour intensive and more environmentally friendly.

When accessing the App Store on March 6 local iPhone users were able to see a list of applications with the title of "Made by Vietnamese women”.

The Lam Son Greyhound Racetrack in the southern province of Ba Ria- Vung Tau will close on March 10 when its license expires, according to the track's operator, Sports and Entertainment Services JSC.

Asian markets mostly rose Tuesday as traders geared up for this week's release of key US jobs data and Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell's testimony to lawmakers.

Nearly 28,500 Vietnamese went to work abroad in the first two months of this year, a 20-fold increase compared to the same period last year.

Dien Bien Airport in the northwestern province of Dien Bien will suspend operations from April 1 for an airport upgrade and expansion project.

Afghan universities reopened on Monday after a winter break, but only men returned to class with a "heartbreaking" ban by the Taliban authorities on women in higher education still in force.

Vietnam's coffee industry needs to solve many challenges to achieve sustainable development, targeting an export value of US$6 billion in 2030.

Female photographer Khanh Phan has been awarded the Grand Prize of US$15,000 in the SkyPixel Annual Photo & Video Contest for a photo themed “Floral Dress”.

The Minister of Industry and Trade has recently asked the trio of power giants to keep the supply of coal stable at all costs in 2023 as the mineral is essential for power generation and fertiliser production.

Many people in Hanoi queue up overnight in front of overloaded local car registration centres.

Eleven people were killed and dozens were missing after torrential rains and landslides battered one of Indonesia's outermost islands on Monday, the country's disaster agency said.

Malta-flagged cruise ship Mein Schiff 5 docked in Quang Ninh province on March 6, carrying nearly 2,000 European visitors to the famous tourist destination in the north of Vietnam.

Lao Airlines, the national flag carrier of Laos, is scheduled to resume regular commercial flights from Vientiane capital to Da Nang (central Vietnam) from March 30 following a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Japan's main opposition party submitted a bill to parliament Monday to approve same-sex marriage, hoping to pile pressure on the government before the country hosts the G7 summit in May.

A bomb weighing 150 kilos with its detonator intact has just been found at a construction site in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh.

Over the 30 years since performing its first kidney transplant from a living donor, Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has consistently developed expertise in organ transplantation, helping prolong and improve the lives of thousands of people.