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HCM City Department of Industry and Trade held a meeting on Thursday with local petrol traders following the temporary closure of many petrol stations in the city.

Careful consideration must be given to the planning and development of airports to ensure feasibility, experts have warned, as localities across the country propose the airports in their provinces.

Vietnam was hit by 988 cyberattacks in the first nine months of this year, according to the National Cyber Security Centre under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Hanoi is planning to develop satellite urban areas as part of an effort to widen local space and ease pressure from overcrowding in the inner city.

Between six and nine million Pakistanis are set to be dragged into poverty as a result of cataclysmic monsoon flooding linked to climate change, the World Bank said on Thursday.

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan will attend the 6th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA 6) at the invitation of President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Kemelevich Tokayev.

Travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler of the United States has listed Phu Quoc in the southern province of Kien Giang among the best 10 tourist islands in Asia, as voted for by its readers.

An additional 1,130 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Thursday, raising the national tally to over 11.48 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Thousands of households in the central province of Nghe An are still facing flooding caused by heavy rains after the recent Storm Noru.

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck the northern mountainous province of Son La’s Moc Chau District early this morning.

A project aimed at promoting sustainable sand management in the Mekong Delta, implemented by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Vietnam, has helped to mitigate the negative impact of climate change on the region.

The US Embassy in Hanoi and US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City have announced the Summer 2023 Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) programs for scholars and secondary school educators.

A former police officer stormed a nursery in Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead at least 30 people, most of them children, before killing himself and his family.

Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper has sent emergency aid to flood victims in the mountainous district of Ky Son in the northern central province of Nghe An.

Hoi An City in the central province of Quang Nam has approved non-refundable aid of USD50,000 from the Four Paws animal welfare organisation for its project to become Vietnam’s first dog and cat meat-free city.

A long rainy spell with strong wind has been forecasted to affect the northern central region of Vietnam from tomorrow.

Lots of fish have been found dead in Hanoi’s West Lake over the past few days.

As many as 62 rare turtles in a lake of Ngoc Hoang Pagoda in HCM City have been handed over to a local wildlife rescue station.

The US Embassy has just hosted the EducationUSA Higher Education Fair in Hanoi.