VIETNAM TODAY

Defence Minister Phan Van Giang hosted a reception on June 3 for US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Evans Knapper.

An additional 1,039 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Friday, raising the national tally to over 10.72 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Vietnam Airlines has become the first foreign carrier to resume flights to Busan since the Republic of Korea (RoK) restricted flights due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nguyen Quynh Tram, former head of Google operations in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, has been appointed as managing director of Microsoft Vietnam.

Director of the Hanoi Department of Construction Vo Nguyen Phong has proposed building underground rainwater storage reservoirs to help deal with serious flooding in Hoan Kiem District during the rainy season.

The Vietnam Railway Authority has announced to carry out a complete evaluation of Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi for its upgrading plan scheduled for 2023.

The nation, along with other regional locations such as Thailand, Cambodia, and Bali, has been listed among the top 20 classic summer vacations everyone should visit at least once, as selected by American magazine Travel+Leisure.

Ten years after "Gangnam Style" became a global phenomenon, South Korean rapper Psy is living his best life –- proud of his "greatest trophy" and free from the pressure of repeating that unprecedented success.

Inflation control is one of Vietnam’s urgent tasks, given the country’s deep integration into the world economy and its dependence on material imports, Minister of Finance Hồ Đức Phớc said at the 15th-tenure National Assembly’s third session meeting.

Authorities in HCM City have expressed concern about a new Covid-19 outbreak as many local people are not taking third or booster vaccine doses.

The Ministry of Public Security will use a new passport form from July 1, 2022.

The people in a family died in a traffic accident that occurred in the northern province of Bac Giang late Thursday evening.

Natural disasters in May left 35 people in Vietnam dead and missing and caused total losses of around VND483 billion (USD20.81 million).

SEA Games defending champions Vietnam were held to a 2-2 draw with their Thai archrivals in their AFC U23 Asian Cup opener in Uzbekistan on June 2.

Some 22 trillion VND (948.2 million USD) in the 347-trillion-VND policy package under the 15th National Assembly’s Resolution 43 has been disbursed, Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai told the legislature's ongoing third session.

Five Vietnamese universities have been named in the Times Higher Education's Asia University Rankings 2022, including three in Ho Chi Minh City and two in Hanoi.

HCM City has planned to turn four outlying districts into cities in the future.

The Vietnamese tourism sector may fail to serve five million international tourists this year, said National Assembly Deputy Tran Thi Van from the northern province of Bac Ninh.

Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper on Wednesday started construction of a new bridge for people in a remote village in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.