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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.

A mother and two of her children died after their motorbike collided with a truck in the central province of Nghe An on Monday morning.

The Airports Corporation of Việt Nam (ACV) has proposed the Ministry of Transport postpone the completion of Long Thành Airport’s passenger terminal to 2026 instead of 2025.

Japan's coastguard said Monday it was searching for seven people missing after their boat capsized and was spotted in waters off the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku islets, which are also claimed by China.

US veteran Peter Mathews and his spouse arrived in the central province of Ha Tinh on Sunday to return a diary of a dead Vietnamese soldier he found over five decades ago to his family.

The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup trophy touched down in Vietnam as part of a promotional tour being held in the buildup to the tournament which is scheduled to be held in Australia and New Zealand later this year.

Tens of thousands of people marched over Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday as part of the WorldPride festival advocating global LGBTQ equality.

As many as 257,549 doses of Covid-19 vaccine in HCM City have expired, according to the municipal Department of Health.

Hanoi’s transport department is planning to introduce a unified electronic ticketing system for its public bus and metro services in 2024.

The national carrier Vietnam Airlines will resume a direct service between the central beach city of Da Nang to Tokyo's Narita Airport with four flights per week starting from March 26.

Vietnam is among the top six best Asian destinations for a family holiday in a list made by the New Zealand Herald.

Around 21,170 hectares of land in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has been licensed for bauxite mining by the people's committee, including around 4,917 hectares of forest.

Vu Quang National Park in the central province of Ha Tinh has cooperated with concerned agencies to release 43 rare wild animals back into the wild.