VIETNAM TODAY

The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HOSE) has received VietABank’s listing application for nearly 540 million shares.

A concrete wall belonging to a company in Long An Province collapsed during a heavy downpour on Monday afternoon, crushing a nearby house and killing a grandmother and her one-year-old grandson.

A seven-kilometre fence made of soapberry trees has helped reduce elephant intrusion into nearby residential areas in the central province of Quang Nam.

PM Pham Minh Chinh, his spouse, and a high-level delegation will attend the third UN Ocean Conference in France and pay official visits to Estonia and Sweden from June 5 to 14.

Airlines on Monday revised down their traffic and profit forecasts for 2025, citing "headwinds" for the global economy.

The Australian Trade and Investment Commission and the Vietnam Banks Association have signed a MoU to strengthen cooperation in financial technology and digital innovation between the two nations.

New orders continued to fall in May as US tariffs impacted demand for exports, according to the S&P Global Vietnam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) released on Monday.

A passenger smuggling dozens of venomous vipers was stopped after flying into the financial capital Mumbai from Thailand, Indian customs officials said.

Hanoi is facing sweltering heat with temperatures of around 40 degrees Celsius.

The Capital Region, including Hanoi and nine neighbouring provinces is identified as a socio-economic development linkage area.

Vietnam recorded 7,853 traffic accidents nationwide from December 15 - May 14, resulting in 4,328 deaths and 5,307 injuries, a major decline from the previous year.

Vietnam’s Minister of National Defence, General Phan Van Giang, held a bilateral meeting with US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth on Saturday on the sidelines of the 22nd Shangri-La Dialogue.

A delegation of nearly 50 representatives from Vietnamese agencies and businesses is travelling to the US to seek trade promotion opportunities and boost imports of key US agricultural products.

Flash floods and landslides after torrential monsoon rain over the last two days killed at least 30 people in India's northeast, officials said Sunday.

All proposals and concerns from enterprises must be answered and resolved within two weeks, directed PM Pham Minh Chinh while chairing a dialogue with the business community in Hanoi on May 31.

Ninh Hiep Market, one of northern Vietnam’s largest wholesale fashion hubs, has seen a wave of shop closures in recent days, leaving the once-bustling marketplace eerily quiet.

The Domestic Market Management and Development Authority​ has seized thousands of suspected counterfeit products during a surprise inspection at Saigon Square in H​C​M City.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has approved the pilot operation of electric bus route 43, connecting Kim Ma Station in the city centre to Dong Anh Town in the outlying Dong Anh District.

The Department of Tourism of Ninh Binh province launched the "Forestival 2025 - Forests of Vietnam" forestation programme on May 30.