VIETNAM TODAY

Three teenagers drowned while swimming in a river in Binh Dinh Province on the afternoon of June 26, local authorities confirmed.

At the end of the trading day, the VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) dropped 1.08 points, or 0.08 per cent, to 1,365.67 points.

The National Assembly has passed a resolution ending tuition fees for all children in public kindergartens and students from Grade 1 to Grade 12 in public schools.

With participation from Russia, China, Japan, India, Thailand, and Indonesia, Vietbuild 2025 is expected to present a wide range of environmentally friendly and innovative products and services.

Tho Xuan Airport in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa will continue suspending nighttime flights from 6 pm to 6 am until July 1 due to ongoing technical issues.

HCM City will soon put 256 more electric buses into operation, bringing the city’s total electric bus fleet to 419.

Footage of a large whale surfacing near Hon Kho Island in the southern-central province of Binh Dinh has attracted public attention.

The northern region of Vietnam is forecast to experience a prolonged rainy spell starting this weekend.

Despite harvesting more than 1.5 million tonnes of durian annually, Vietnam has seen a dramatic surge in durian imports in the first months of this year.

More than 1.1 million students across Vietnam sat the Vietnamese literature paper this morning, officially launching the 2025 national high school graduation exam.

A landslide struck a home in northern Yen Bai Province early Thursday morning, killing a teenager.

Hanoi authorities plan to build a waste-to-energy plant with a total investment of VND 7,531 billion (approximately USD 296 million) and a processing capacity of 2,400 tonnes of waste per day.

Vietnam is experiencing a 38 per cent increase in overweight and obesity rates, placing it among the Southeast Asian nations with the fastest-growing rates.

Two employees at a bar in Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province, died from electrocution, and three others were injured while cleaning a water tank.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s 16th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, held on June 25 in Tianjin, China.

A mass fish die-off along Co Co River in Hoi An City has left dozens of local households, restaurants, and hotels grappling with a pervasive stench.

Customs officers at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi have discovered 12 pieces of yellow metal, suspected to be gold, hidden inside four camera lenses carried by a foreign passenger.

Vietnam has reduced adult smoking rates by over 3 percentage points in a decade, thanks to strong political action and a stable domestic financial mechanism for tobacco control.

A man has died after drowning in a stream in the central city of Danang, known as an unregulated tourist spot.