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Gold demand in Vietnam increased significantly in the second quarter of this year, according to the World Gold Council.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Friday reported an additional 1,805 Covid-19 infections, raising the country's total tally to over 10.77 million.

Domestic tourism continues to lead the way, with HCM City remaining the top destination for local travel in 2022, according to a study, ‘Summer Travel Trends,’ released by online digital travel platform Agoda.

Vehicles working with ride-hailing apps won't be allowed to pick up customers on the 3rd, 4th or 5th floors of the car park at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City from July 28.

The nation’s consumer price index during the initial seven months of the year edged up 2.54% on-year, while core inflation rose by 1.44%, as announced by the General Statistics Office on July 29.

Vietnamese are the fourth tallest people in Southeast Asia, only after Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, thanks to improvements in maternal and child nutrition, heard a workshop held by the Ministry of Health in Hanoi on July 28.

A man in Nha Trang City rescued 31 dogs from a local slaughterhouse that he visited while looking for his two missing dogs.

Vietnamese students won big with two gold, one silver, and one bronze medals at the 2022 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship’s awards ceremony held in the United States.

The numbers of enterprises and employees working in the non-state and FDI sectors increased rapidly, but reduced markedly in the state-owned sector during 2016-2020.

Vietnam is considered to be one of the major plastic polluters in the world, discharging about 3.1 million tonnes of plastic waste every year, including 0.28-0.73 million tonnes of plastic waste discharged into the ocean.

Around 18,713 flights of Vietnam’s airlines were delayed in the first half of this year, accounting for 13.1 percent of the total fights during the period.

At least two Hong Kong dancers were injured on Thursday night after being hit by a falling screen at a concert of the city's most popular boy band Mirror.

A ceremony was held on July 28 in Hanoi to send off 150 Vietnamese nurses and caregivers as they go to work in Japan under the terms of the Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (VJEPA).

Remittances to Ho Chi Minh City totalled 3.16 billion USD in the first half of 2022, down 13% from the same period last year, according to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) branch in the southern city.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Thursday reported an additional 1,699 Covid-19 infections, raising the country's total tally to over 10.77 million.

The northern region will face heavy rains from Thursday evening.

The German Embassy has announced that they cannot grant visas to holders of Vietnam's new passports which lack information about places of birth.

At least 42 people have died and nearly 100 others have been hospitalised in western India after drinking toxic alcohol, police said on Thursday, with authorities ordering a crackdown on bootleggers.

Foreign investors have poured a total of US$15.41 billion into the country during the past seven months of the year, equivalent to 92.9% compared to the same period from last year, according to details given by the Ministry of