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Many low-lying areas and those along rivers, canals, and streams in HCM City are expected to struggle with flooding during the Tet Lunar New Year holiday due to high tides.

Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi has reported a significant fall in serious traffic accident injuries following the implementation of higher traffic fines.

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son held phone talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on January 24 evening.

Many flights to airports in the northern and central regions faced delays due to dense fog on Friday.

The Vietnam Internet Centre (VNNIC) has announced that the number of registrations of national domain name “.vn” has increased by 185,000 to more than 630,500, ranking second in Southeast Asia.

Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi reported on January 24 it is currently treating 32 students from northern Tuyen Quang City who are suspected of poisoning from fluoroacetate (rat poison).

Some 5,035 workers and students from several southern localities have been given free bus and flight tickets home for the upcoming Tet Lunar New Year.

Many roads in the southern economic hub of HCM City have seen severe congestion as people start travelling home for the Tet Lunar New Year holiday.

Unlike previous years, when vibrant peach trees were in full bloom, Phu Thuong peach blossom village in Hanoi now presents a sombre scene following Typhoon Yagi.

The 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) convened a meeting in Hanoi on January 23 under the chair of General Secretary To Lam.

A court in India has sentenced five men to death for the gruesome gang rape and murder of a teenager as well as the killing of her father and toddler-aged niece.

Two projects in Ho Chi Minh City have been put into operation to help reduce congestion at the gateway to Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City is experiencing congestion as Tet Lunar New Year approaches.

Da Nang City Police announced that they have busted the nation’s largest-ever transnational money laundering syndicate, arresting five suspects and seizing several exhibits.

A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, the State President, and the National Assembly paid floral tribute to President Ho Chi Minh on January 23.

​Two people have been injured after a passenger bus crashed into a roadside house in the central province of Quang Binh's Dong Hoi City on Thursday.

Four crew members have gone missing after a fishing boat sank off the central province of Binh Thuan.

A high-profile gay couple married in Thailand on Thursday as the kingdom's same-sex marriage law went into effect, an AFP journalist saw, among the first of hundreds expected to do so.

Vietnam welcomes the Seoul Court of Appeals upheld the ruling requiring the government of the Republic of Korea to compensate to a woman who lost her family in the 1968 massacre in Quang Nam.