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Atiya Azimi was up all night packing and repacking her bag, feverish at returning to school for the first time since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan.

A ceremony to inaugurate the Israel-Vietnam Chamber of Commerce was held on March 22 by the Vietnamese Embassy in Israel and the Israel-Asia Chamber of Commerce.

Some 50,000 vehicles per year is the minimum production level needed for the growth of the Vietnamese auto part industry. Unfortunately, few car producers in Vietnam have reached such a level.

Many streets in Hanoi faced serious congestion on Wednesday morning when a new cold spell with rains hit the city.

Many labour exporting countries are facing difficulties finding applicants for the trainee programmes in Japan.

Two people have been found dead after a fire broke out at their apartment in HCM City early Wednesday morning.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced that it would temporarily suspend the Hanoi-Moscow air route from March 25 until further notice.

Tens of thousands of girls were due to return to secondary school across Afghanistan Wednesday, more than seven months after the Taliban seized power and imposed harsh restrictions on the rights of women to be educated.

Bamboo Airway’s direct air route linking Vietnam and the UK was officially launched on March 22 with a flight departing from Hanoi’s Noi Bai international airport to London.

A human milk bank was inaugurated at the Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi on March 22 after a four month trial period.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Tuesday reported an additional 249,153 Covid-19 infections, raising the country's patient tally to over 8.33 million.

"We’re 20 women coming from different places and different living conditions, but we are bound together to fight against a common enemy, breast cancer."

Seven Indochinese tiger cubs which were rescued by the central province of Nghe An authorities have been taken to Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

Chinese recovery teams on Tuesday picked through the debris of a crashed China Eastern jet after it inexplicably plummeted from the sky into a mountainside with 132 people on board.

Vietnamese and Lao businesses discussed ways to speed up the implementation of large-scale Vietnamese-invested projects in Laos and seek new cooperation projects of strategic importance during a workshop in Vientiane on March 21.

Authorities in the northern province of Hai Duong have just asked the investor in a newly-built urban area to quickly remove huge piles of rubbish that have affected the lives of local residents in the area.

Vietnam’s aviation industry is targeting about 43 million passengers in 2022, including eight million international tourists, or around 50 percent of pre-pandemic numbers, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.

A man has been jailed for three years and 10 months in the UK for his role in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese citizens in October 2019.

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is hosting a free online film-making training course for Vietnamese filmmakers, entitled ‘On The Reel Film Lab 2022’, from March 21 to 23.