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Ten new ports have been added to the list of Vietnamese seaports, bringing the total number nationwide to 296.

A delegation of the Party, State, National Assembly, Government and the Vietnam Fatherland Front leaders paid tribute to late President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum and offered incense at the Martyrs’ Monument in Hanoi.

Coffee shops along the railway line in Hanoi have reopened after more than two years.

The Vietnamese peacekeeping force, including the Military Engineering Unit No.1 and the Level-2 Field Hospital No.4 held a departure ceremony on April 27 at Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport to perform their task at the UN Interim Security Force

Dantri/DTiNews readers have donated around VND300 million (USD12,931) to a poor woman in the northern province of Hoa Binh who faced a stroke while giving birth.

Work to open a pedestrian zone at Son Tay’s old citadel is scheduled to be completed before the Reunification Day (April 30) and May Day holiday.

Students at a school in a mountainous area in the central province of Nghe An are in desperate need of support to build new facilities.

Vietnam and Laos need to maintain the regular exchange of delegations and high-ranking officials and strive to turn economic, trade and investment cooperation into a pillar of bilateral relations, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on April 26.

The 15th National Assembly for the 2021-2026 tenure will convene its third session from May 23 to June 17, General Secretary of the National Assembly Bui Cuong said on April 26.

A total of 70 sketches of the resistance war on the southern battlefield are being introduced to the public at an exhibition that opened in Hanoi on April 26.

Vietnam has made remarkable progress in poverty reduction in the 2010 – 2020 period, with the rate of poverty declining to only 5 percent from 16.8 percent, according to the World Bank.

The night tour of the Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi will return during the coming National Reunification Day and May Day holidays after a year-long hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts.

A survey of nearly 7,800 students, aged 13 to 17 years old in 81 schools across Vietnam, revealed that 13 per cent of them felt lonely most or all the time.

This year’s World Intellectual Property Day is an opportunity for young people to learn how patents can support their goals and turn their ideas into reality, Director General Dinh Huu Phi of the National Office of Intellectual Property of

Ken O'Flaherty, regional ambassador of the UK Government at COP26 to Asia-Pacific and South Asia, has hailed strong Vietnamese commitments to tackle climate change made at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).

Beijing on Tuesday launched mass coronavirus testing for nearly all its 21 million residents, as fears grew that the Chinese capital may be placed under a strict lockdown like Shanghai.

Since the beginning of April, water levels of the Mekong River have been on red alert status, with the abnormal changes caused by the discharge from hydroelectric dams.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has just proposed a plan to upgrade the Ca Mau Airport which may need VND100 billion (USD4.56 million) in funding.

Skoda Auto, the leading automobile manufacturing of the Czech Republic, wants to invest in Vietnam to tap into a market of nearly 100 million consumers and to expand to Southeast Asia, said an executive of Skoda Auto.