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The death toll from landslides and floods in the Philippines rose to 58 on Wednesday, official tallies showed, as rescuers dug up more bodies with their bare hands in villages crushed by rain-induced avalanches.

A pilot flight for a new helicopter tour known as "Ho Chi Minh City From Above" in conjunction with emergency services was launched by the municipal Department of Tourism in coordination with Military Hospital 175 and the Southern Vietnam

Vietnam has yet to discover the emergence of BA.4 and BA.5 – the two sublineages of the Omicron variant following genome sequencing, the Ministry of Health said on April 12 evening.

Hanoi authorities have asked 579 communes, wards and towns for their team to catch stray dogs and cats as part of rabies prevention measures.

British news outlet The Guardian has published an article on 14-year-old Vietnamese art prodigy Xeo Chu following comparisons with Jackson Pollock, an influential American painter.

Retail petrol prices have fallen from Tuesday afternoon, marking the third consecutive decrease in just three weeks.

Vietnam reported an additional 22,804 Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, raising the national tally to 10.27 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Ho Chi Minh City will need 59,000-65,500 employees in the second of this year, down 8 percent compared with the same period last year, if the COVID-19 pandemic is kept under control, the city’s Human Resources Forecast and Labour

ASEAN Film Week 2022 is set to get underway in Hanoi, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh City in the second quarter of the year to mark ASEAN’s 55th founding anniversary.

Exports and imports reported double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2022, signaling a good year for the foreign trade.

Rescuers hampered by mud and rain searched Tuesday for survivors of landslides that smashed into villages in the central Philippines, as the death toll from tropical storm Megi rose to 27.

A police officer in the southern province of Dong Nai has just been given a promotion after successfully saving four people from drowning at a beach.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has put forth a proposal to start auctioning solar and wind energy projects that did not complete the technical test phase prior to October 31, 2021.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued a telegram requesting relevant ministries and agencies to intervene to ensure healthy and effective operations of the stock and corporate bond markets.

When Vanessa, a worker with Japan's "technical intern" programme, told her supervisors she was pregnant, she says they first suggested an abortion and then pressured her to quit.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has praised the Vietnam National Children’s Hospital for their successful liver transplantation operation on a nine-month-old child, who is discharged from the facility on April 11.

Bamboo Airways has announced a halt to flights to and from Dien Bien Phu Airport in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien due to low visibility.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has coordinated with relevant ministries, sectors and localities to build a national plan for natural disaster prevention and control to 2025.

The 12th Vietnam - Laos border trade development cooperation conference was held in the Lao capital of Vientiane on April 11 under the co-chair of Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien and his Lao counterpart Khampheng Xaysompheng.