VIETNAM TODAY

Quang Ngai Province is stepping up fishing vessel controls as Vietnam seeks to have the European Union lift its IUU yellow card warning.

The Vietnam-Laos Martyrs' Cemetery, which contains more than 11,000 graves, will undergo a more than VND 210 billion (USD 8 million) expansion and renovation.

Danang City has approved a VND 6.2 trillion (USD 236 million) investment to complete the remaining shared infrastructure at Lien Chieu Port.

Rain is forecast tonight and tomorrow morning across northern Vietnam, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An, easing from August 7 afternoon as heat returns.

Police in Ho Chi Minh City have caught a man allegedly scattering nails and other sharp objects on a road, warning that such acts pose a serious risk to road users.

Two primary school children have drowned while playing in a pond on a coffee farm in Lam Dong, bringing the province's child drowning death toll this year to 29.

Police in Dong Nai City are investigating four youths accused of throwing fruit seeds and other objects at vehicles travelling on the Dau Giay-Phan Thiet Expressway.

Retail fuel prices were cut on Wednesday, ending three consecutive increases, with petrol prices falling by up to VND 660 (USD 0.025) a litre.

Authorities in Haiphong have captured a wild pig-tailed macaque after residents reported repeated attacks on people, pets and property in a residential area.

Vietnam plans to cut more than 17,000 public education administrative units, or 45.7 per cent, under a nationwide restructuring programme.

Ha Tinh Province has warned of growing landslide risks on several key roads ahead of the rainy season after a series of rockfalls and slope failures disrupted traffic earlier this year.

A long-abandoned five-star resort in Phu Quoc has been ordered demolished within four months after authorities terminated the project's investment due to years of delays.

Phu Tho and Thai Nguyen provinces are studying a VND 5.8 trillion (USD 221 million) road tunnel through the Tam Dao mountain range with construction proposed for the 2026-2029 period.

A fire at a house on Nguyen Van Dau Street, Binh Loi Trung Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, killed two people on August 6.

Construction of a key road linking Hue City to Phu Bai International Airport remains stalled as the transfer of project management to a new public investor has yet to be completed.

More than 200 residents were evacuated after heavy rain triggered landslides and flash floods that blocked National Highway 6 and inundated homes in Son La Province.

Vietnam has carried out its first dual-console robotic surgery, with two surgeons operating simultaneously to remove prostate cancer and reconstruct the bladder in just 40 minutes.

Two Omicron subvariants are now dominant in Ho Chi Minh City, but health authorities say there is no evidence they cause more severe illness than earlier strains.

A 39-year-old woman from Laos, who was left paralysed in both legs for eight months after giving birth to her fifth child, has regained the ability to walk after undergoing treatment in Hanoi.