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The Ministry of Public Security sent 24 officers to Turkey on Thursday to help the country with search and rescue work following the earthquakes that killed thousands of people.

Singapore will host swimming's world championships in 2025, the sport's governing body said on Thursday, replacing the Russian city of Kazan.

A flight of Vietravel Airlines departing from Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok at noon on February 9, marking the airline's first commercial route linking the two major cities

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, now on an official visit to Singapore, held talks with his host counterpart Lee Hsien Loong following an official welcome ceremony chaired by the latter on February 9.

Two four-year-old boys have drowned after falling into a Koi fish pond at their neighbour's house in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

The Cau Treo Tourist Area in the Central Highlands Province of Dak Lak's Buon Don District has just announced that they would stop its elephant ride service.

A US war veteran has emailed authorities in the central province of Ha Tinh expressing his desire to return a diary of a dead Vietnamese soldier he found decades ago to his family.

The Vietnamese aviation market is forecasted to fully recover by the end of this year, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.

Australian travel publication Traveller of The Sydney Morning Herald has recently released its list of the top 20 slow travel holidays for this year, with Vietnam featured in the list of places to visit in 2023.

Dantri/DTiNews readers have donated a total of VND124.52 million (USD5,254) to a 32-year-old poor woman in the northern central province of Ha Tinh who is struggling with throat cancer.

Hanoi is set to become a globally-connected city with high living standards and quality of life, according to a new plan that aims to raise the Gross Regional Domestic Product per capita to US$36,000 by 2045.

Saxion University of Applied Sciences (SUAS) of the Netherlands and Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU) of Vietnam have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in education, training, applied research and exchange of lecturers, students and PhD students.

A rare yellow-cheeked gibbon has been spotted in the central city of Danang’s Hoa Vang District for the first time.

Inflation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is expected to moderate faster than that in the developed economies, ANZ Bank chief economist Sanjay Mathur has said.

Seven Vietnamese students have claimed gold prizes at the fifth International Creative Papers Conference (ICPC) and Olympic which was recently held in the Republic of Korea (RoK).

The HCM City Real Estate Association has asked the State Bank of Vietnam to help local firms get easier access to bank loans to overcome huge difficulties posed by low liquidity in the local market.

More than 4,700 young men from HCM City set off to join the army at enlistment ceremonies held across the city on February 8.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, his spouse and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam left Hanoi at noon on February 8 for official visits to Singapore and Brunei from February 8-11.

Repairs to Vietnam’s submarine internet cables have been scheduled to begin in late March or early April.