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Ho Chi Minh City will turn another 22 streets into pedestrian streets on weekends between 2022 and 2025.

Phu Yen boasts potential to build a geopark accredited by the UNESCO, said experts at a conference held in the south-central province on July 23 regarding international cooperation for the local development of a geopark and sustainable tourism.

Vietnam will send a young but strong team of athletes to compete at the World Pencak Silat Championship 2022 in Melaka, Malaysia.

HCM City has launched a service to provide emergency support for people with serious symptoms of depression.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has proposed the construction of a parking lot at Noi Bai International Airport.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has instructed concerned agencies to take measures to stabilise pork prices.

An eight-year-old boy in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has been killed by a pit bull.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is making extra effort to realise the target of welcoming five million foreign visitors amid a decline in the number of tourists from China and Russia.

In response to multiple global crises disproportionately impacting women, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has adopted new policies to better consider gender in its work, the global crisis lender's managing director announced Friday.

Major foreign financial institutions such as IMF, ADB, and AMRO have made different forecasts on Vietnamese inflation this year, although they all anticipate the figure to hover around 4%.

The Vietnam Summer Camp 2022, an annual event organised by the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese for outstanding overseas Vietnamese youths around the world, has kicked off in Vinh city, central Nghe An province.

Hanoi has seen a rise in the number of people who receive Covid-19 vaccine booster jabs amid the rise in new Covid-19 infections.

Japan's nuclear regulator on Friday formally approved a plan to release more than a million tonnes of treated water from the crippled Fukushima plant into the ocean, sparking an angry reaction from China.

Coach Park Hang-seo has said he and the Vietnam men’s football squad will make efforts to meet their goals this year, and work to promote young Vietnamese footballers.

An additional 1,142 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Friday, raising the national tally to over 10.76 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Tran Sy Thanh, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and deputy secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, has been elected head of the municipal administration for the 2021-2026 tenure.

Up to 21.5 million doses of Covid-19 in Vietnam have not yet been used to date due to the slow pace of vaccination in many localities.

Five more fishermen have just been rescued after their boat sank off Binh Thuan 12 days ago.

Singapore hanged a drug trafficker on Friday, the fifth execution in the city-state since March, after a court rejected a last-ditch appeal and despite pleas for clemency.