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The United Kingdom has announced that they will continue to accept Vietnam's new passports which have recently been rejected by some other countries in the European Union due to missing place-of-birth information.

The southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau has become well-known for its foreign language students thanks to its policies.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Wednesday reported an additional 2,096 Covid-19 infections, raising the country's total tally to over 10.78 million.

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son attended the 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-55) which opened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on August 3 morning.

Hanoi is carrying out five social housing projects on a total area of 280 hectares in four outlying districts of Dong Anh, Thanh Tri, Thuong Tin and Gia Lam.

The northern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to face rain from August 4-8, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Ho Chi Minh City is exerting efforts to put its first metro line linking Ben Thanh and Suoi Tien into trial run at the beginning of 2024.

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang on Wednesday reaffirmed Vietnam's consistent support for the “one-China policy” and called on relevant parties to exercise restraint across the Taiwan Strait.

After falling in love with Vietnamese banh mi, a popular type of local sandwich, British chef Luke Farrell on August 2 decided to open a banh mi pop-up shop on New Oxford street in London.

Tourism businesses in Indonesia's Komodo National Park began a month-long strike on Monday after the government imposed a huge price hike.

The Spanish Embassy in Vietnam on August 1 announced that it cannot accept Schengen visa applications from Vietnamese citizens using new-style passports until further notice.

The potential of renewable energy sources is one of the keys to Vietnam’s energy transformation towards carbon neutrality, but barriers stemming from the unresponsive transmission network and pricing mechanism is wasting the capacity of billions of kWh of electricity.

The Czech Republic has yet to officially recognise new Vietnamese passports after stating that they fail to meet International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) specifications, according to the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Hanoi.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Tuesday reported an additional 2,017 Covid-19 infections, an increase of nearly 700 cases compared to yesterday's figure.

The southern province of Binh Duong has recorded two BA.5 sub-strain Omicron coronavirus variant infections.

China's population will begin to shrink by 2025, officials have said, as family sizes grow smaller and citizens age.

The Vietnamese national men’s football team will have extra opportunities to progress to the finals of the 2026 World Cup after the world’s governing football body FIFA adopted a new qualification format for the global tournament.

Countries must step up cooperation and dialogue, and strengthen mutual understanding for a common cause of eliminating nuclear threat, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ha Kim Ngoc told a New York conference.

The melodic songs from families of endangered monkeys ring out over the jungle near Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex -- a sign of ecological rejuvenation decades after hunting decimated wildlife at the site.