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Han Market, which is a famous tourist destination in the central city of Danang, has had a new, better look after being upgraded.

A Japanese tourist was charged VND1.2 million (USD510) for a 7-kilometre taxi ride in HCM City, ten times higher than what it should have been.

Mong Cai Border Gate in the northern province of Quang Ninh received the first group of Chinese tourists on Wednesday morning after a three-year Covid-19 hiatus.

Industry insiders and policymakers have cautioned that Vietnam is facing an uphill battle to achieve its goal of 6 per cent export growth this year.

A delegation from Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund organised a ceremony to give 100 scholarships worth a total of 5,000 USD to disadvantaged oversea-Vietnamese students with outstanding study performance.

Asian markets bounced Wednesday as concerns about contagion from the collapse of two US regional lenders eased while investors turned their attention back to next week's Federal Reserve interest rate decision.

Mini Thailand Week 2023 is scheduled to take place from March 16 to 19 in the northern border province of Quang Ninh to promote bilateral trade between Thailand and Vietnam.

Thai authorities are scrambling to find a cylinder containing dangerous radioactive material that went missing from a power station, officials said Tuesday, warning of serious health risks from direct exposure.

HCM City’s public investment disbursement stood at an estimated VND369 billion (153.63 million) in the first two months of this year against a total of VND70 trillion (USD3 billion) allocated for the city in the year.

Several consecutive tremors hit the central province of Quang Ngai and the central highlands province of Kon Tum on Tuesday morning, according to the Institute of Geophysics of Vietnam.

Nguyễn Giáp Đông, the head of the Ba Vì District Economy Division in Hanoi, reports that his district is spearheading a 300-hectare banana-growing initiative that will span along the Hồng (Red) and Đà rivers.

Newly opened accounts in February increased by nearly 28,000 on-month to January, but they were still low compared to the average level of the past two years, according to data from the Vietnam Securities Depository.

With over 100 active volcanos, Japan has the world's third largest geothermal resources, but also a powerful industry that has steadfastly opposed developing the sector: hot springs.

Asian markets sank Tuesday, with banks bearing the brunt of the selling on fears of contagion in the sector after the collapse of two regional US lenders.

As many as 37 workers at a company in the northern province of Bac Ninh have suffered from methanol poisoning, leaving one dead and many others in critical condition.

The Hanoi Department of Transport has just decided to remove the ban on taxis from Cat Linh Street while considering allowing taxi services back on some other streets including Le Van Luong, Lang Ha, Giang Vo, Kham Thien, and

Three women with machetes stood guard at their farm hilltop on Indonesia's Wawonii Island, directing their blades towards the nickel miners working in the forest clearing below.

The Thai Hai reserve area, home to an ecological house-on-stilts village in the northern province of Thai Nguyen, was named as one of the 32 Best Tourism Villages 2022 by the UN World Tourism Organisation, during a ceremony held

Vietnamese economic growth is projected to ease to 6.3% in 2023 from a robust figure of 8% last year, as services growth eases and higher prices and interest rates weigh on households and investors, according to the World Bank.