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Vietnam welcomes Russia’s consideration of simplifying visa procedures for Vietnamese citizens, deputy spokesperson of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang said at the ministry’s routine press briefing on March 9.

Snapshots of life in the capital in the 1967 to 1975 period taken by the world-renowned German photographer Thomas Billhardt will be put on display at an exhibition in Hanoi.

John Dixon, 77, and his wife Shan Ellison Barker, 70, returned to Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases on March 8 to thank doctors and nurses for saving them from Covid-19 three years ago.

Leaders of the Cần Thơ province had a working session with a delegation from the United States Agency for International Development and discussed collaboration in climate change response and how to support people affected by the natural phenomenon.

Officials of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of central province of Quảng Ngãi had a meeting on Wednesday with photographer Ronald L. Haeberle, who took pictures of the brutal Sơn Mỹ massacre on March 16, 1968.

Dozens of parents in HCM City have been tricked into transferring money to save their children after being told their children faced life-threatening conditions that needed urgent operations.

A mother has drowned her two small children in a river in the northern province of Nam Dinh.

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.