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The United Nations Tuesday warned of a worsening food crisis in bankrupt Sri Lanka and said the number of people needing urgent humanitarian help had doubled to 3.4 million.

Severe air pollution in the capital city is forecast to linger until at least this weekend, leaving much of the city clouded in smog.

As many as 303 Sri Lankan people on board Myanmar-flagged fishing vessel LADY R3 have been rescued by the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC Vietnam) and other foreign forces.

Police in the central province of Quang Nam's Que Son District are investigating a case in which a newborn baby girl was abandoned in a local forest.

Authorities of the southern central province of Binh Dinh are seeking the Ministry of Transport’s approval to expand and upgrade Phu Cat Airport into an international airport.

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techno Hun Sen on November 8 hosted a welcoming ceremony for Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh who arrived in Phnom Penh on the same day for an official visit to Cambodia and participation in

Globally-renowned business magazine Forbes recently released its November list detailing a list of the world’s billionaires, including seven Vietnamese billionaires.

Nine fishermen have just been rescued after four days stranded on an islet in the Spratly Archipelago.

Amid the FED’s continuous increases of interest rates to cope with inflation, the most important task for Vietnam now is to keep macro-economic stability, with monetary stability being the core, some economic experts have said.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính left Hanoi this morning for Cambodia, starting an official visit to the neighbouring country from November 8-9 and to attend the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and related events from November 10-13.

An additional 365 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Monday, raising the national tally to over 11.50 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Dantri/DTiNews readers have donated VND304 million (USD12,096) for an 11-year-old girl in the southern province of Ben Tre whose father died, while her mother left her when she was just two years old.

The southern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to experience a spell of widespread high tides this week.

A bomb weighing 227 kilos has been discovered at a road project in the central province of Quang Tri.

The northern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to face its first strong cold front from late December, said Hoang Phuc Lam, deputy director of the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Around 12.54 hectares of a coastal casuarina forest in the central province of Quang Binh have been damaged by illegal logging.

Indonesia’s Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) has issued emergency use authorisation (EUA) for IndoVac COVID-19 vaccine produced by state-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma.

Container shipping firms are coming under great pressure from weak demand as maritime trade has begun to lose steam in recent months.

Phu Quoc island in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on November 6 welcomed a total of 242 Polish tourists aboard a charter flight operated by LOT Polish Airlines.