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Party General Secretary To Lam on August 13 attended the inauguration of Vietnam’s Consulate General in Busan.

A Hanoi-based lawyer has decided to provide free legal defence for Thai Khac Thanh from Nghe An Province, who was sentenced to six years in prison for selling silver pheasants, a protected species.

Several agencies are relocating to hand over the site for the construction of a new square and park on the eastern side of Hoan Kiem Lake.

Two teenagers were killed when a mass of soil and rocks from a hillside collapsed onto a café where they were drinking coffee.

A car suddenly reversed into a crowd in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on Monday evening, killing one child and injuring 11 others.

Singapore is at risk of chikungunya transmission as the number of reported cases this year has more than doubled compared to last year, the country’s Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) has reported.

Pham The Hien Apartments in HCM City have seriously deteriorated, threatening hundreds of residents.

A serious workplace accident at the Quy Nhon-Chi Thanh Expressway construction site in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has killed two and injured one.

Party General Secretary To Lam and President of the Republic of Korea Lee Jae Myung co-chaired a joint press briefing to share the outcomes of their talks on August 11.

Police in Mai Chau ​Commune, Phu Tho ​Province, promptly assisted a Dutch tourist who was injured in a fall on August 10.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued an urgent warning about the risk of a Chikungunya outbreak in Vietnam after numerous cases were reported in Southern China, especially in Guangdong Province.

Party General Secretary To Lam and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation attended the inauguration ceremony of a statue of late President Ho Chi Minh in the Vietnamese Embassy’s campus in Seoul.

Two Vietnamese citizens fell into the sea at noon on Friday (local time) at Sarakiniko Beach, Milos Island, Greece, according to a press release from the Embassy of Vietnam in Greece late Saturday.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam and his spouse Ngo Phuong Ly departed from Hanoi for a four-day state visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Foreign guests of top leaders, major investors, global business executives and renowned cultural figures will be eligible for a visa waiver when entering Vietnam.

The elevated section of the Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line has transported more than 6.4 million passengers in its first year of operation, with a daily average of 19,000-21,000 people.

Vietnamese police have broken up a cross-border surrogacy ring led by a Chinese national and rescued 11 babies following raids in multiple provinces.

Vietnam and Angola have issued a Joint Statement on the occasion of the State visit by Vietnamese President Luong Cuong at the invitation of Angolan President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco.

A man punched a traffic police officer in the mouth while he was trying to handle a minor road accident in Nha Trang Ward, Khanh Hoa Province, on Thursday morning, injuring him.