VIETNAM TODAY

Many tourists to Son Tra Peninsula in the central city of Danang continue feeding local monkeys despite a ban by local authorities.

A poor widow in the southern province of Phu Yen who is blind in one eye is calling for community help as she has to take care of her five children.

An additional 1,118 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Monday, raising the national tally to over 10.71 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

The central city of Da Nang has become ready for the 16th Asian route development forum 2020 (Routes Asia 2022), the largest and biggest event to promote and connect flight networks in the Asia-Pacific region.

Hanoi local authorities' ban on walking pets, vendoring or playing unlicensed music is so far proving unsuccessful in the pedestrianised area around Hoan Kiem Lake.

A seaside village in the central province of Quang Ngai is facing pollution due to rising amounts of waste floating from neighbouring rivers.

The import-export value of foreign direct investment firms reached US$187.3 billion during the five months of the year, representing a year-on-year rise of 14.3%, with exports growing by 13.3% to US$98.8 billion, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Dantri Newspaper has just started construction of a kitchen for teachers and students in a remote mountainous district of the northern Tuyen Quang Province.

The northern midland and mountainous regions are forecast to witness moderate and heavy rain on May 30 – 31, with rainfalls of 50-100 mm, even over 120 mm, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Nepali rescuers found on Monday the crash site of a missing passenger plane that went down with 22 people on board, the army said.

A passenger bus carrying 30 tourists veered off a road while travelling on National Road 2B in Tam Dao District on Sunday.

Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) in the first five months of the year edged up 2.25 percent year-on-year while core inflation rose by 1.1 percent, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

HCM City has planned to spend around VND28.4 trillion (USD1.22 billion) to clear around 14,000 homes on or along canals by 2025.

The number of new Covid-19 infections continued to drop with 890 cases recorded on Sunday, down 224 cases from the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health.

A planning exhibition centre project in HCM City is seven years behind schedule.

A ceramic mural, Tình hữu nghị Việt Mỹ (The Vietnam-US Friendship), has been inaugurated at the new US-Vietnam Co-operation Centre in Hanoi.

A passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in Nepal on Sunday, the operating airline and officials said, as poor weather hampered a search operation.

The cattle market in the central province of Ha Tinh’s Can Loc District has become a special feature for over a century.