VIETNAM TODAY

Three crew members on a fishing boat from Ben Tre Province have died of suspected gas suffocation off the coast of southern Vietnam.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam launched the 2025 Human Development Report (HDR) in Hanoi on May 12.

Vietnam’s economy continued to show resilience and dynamism in the first four months of 2025, maintaining its position among the world’s fastest-growing economies, despite global uncertainties.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam on May 12 welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent proposal to resume direct peace talks with Ukraine.

Party General Secretary To Lam and President Alexander Lukashenko signed a joint statement on the establishment of the strategic partnership between Vietnam and Belarus on May 12.

A man exposing himself in front of some women on a beach in Nha Trang City in the southern central province of Khanh Hoa was caught red-handed.

A 500kg whale has been found dead on a beach in Quang Ngai Province, the second such incident in less than a week.

The ashes of four Vietnamese nationals who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in an apartment in Taiwan (China) had been repatriated to Vietnam.

The People’s Committee of Thai Binh province held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 60.9-kilometre expressway segment connecting the provinces of Nam Dinh and Thai Binh on Monday morning.

​Thai P​M Paetongtarn Shinawatra will pay an official visit to Vietnam from May 15 to 16 at the invitation of Vietnamese P​M Pham Minh Chinh, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A troop of nearly 100 wild monkeys has devastated crops in the central province of Quang Ngai’s Binh Son District, seriously disrupting local livelihoods.

The research vessel Professor Gagarinsky was transferred to the Joint Vietnam-Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Centre (VRTC) at a ceremony held on May 11 in Vladivostok city, Russia.

Scientists have recorded 527 species of flora and fauna in the Hai Van-Son Cha coastal area of Hue City, a region once severely impacted by the Formosa environmental disaster.

Authorities in Tay Ninh Province are investigating the cause of a serious road collapse on the approach to Hoa Binh Bridge.

As average income continues to rise, tobacco products have become increasingly affordable and accessible to the community.

Residents of the town in Indian-administered Kashmir worst hit by the deadliest fighting in decades with Pakistan trickled back on Sunday, a day after a surprise truce.

Party General Secretary To Lam had a meeting with representatives of the Belarusian Society of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.

All eight Vietnamese students have secured medals at the 2025 Asian Physics Olympiad, showing a remarkable improvement from last year’s results.

Party General Secretary To Lam and Russian President Vladimir Putin have showed great pleasure at the positive development of the Vietnam–Russia comprehensive strategic partnership.