VIETNAM TODAY

More than 40 construction workers were missing after an avalanche in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on Friday following heavy snowfall, officials said.

Vinh Airport in the central province of Nghe An will close from July to the end of December 2025 to facilitate runway repairs and upgrades.

Vietnam will create favourable conditions for the stock market to develop more breakthrough and innovative products, enhancing the quality of market offerings and attracting more investors.

A farmer in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong has appealed to the authorities after 700 coffee trees in his plantation were vandalised, causing losses worth hundreds of millions of dong.

A fisherman from Ly Son Island District in the central province of Quang Ngai has caught a milk shark weighing up to 200 kilos.

A resident in the southern province of Dong Nai has spotted a rare Asian elephant, known for its asymmetrical tusks, at the edge of a local forest.

Hundreds of tonnes of fish have been found dead in the Thu Bon River in the central province of Quang Nam, causing significant losses for local households.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has officially launched the 2025 Tourism Stimulus Programme themed Vietnam – Travel to Love, aiming to attract international tourists.

Over ten households in Hanoi's Giang Van Minh Street where an incident involving additive leakage occurred during a nearby metro tunnel excavation have been urgently evacuated.

Rising pork prices and diminishing demand have forced many small HCM City market traders to stop selling.

Several commercial banks have started reducing deposit interest rates by 0.1 to 0.4 percentage points in response to the PM’s direction to lower rates.

The beaches at Lang Co Bay in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue are suffering severe pollution from waste and oil slicks.

The Phong Khe Ward People's Committee, Bac Ninh Province, have announced a clean-up campaign following the shutdown of several polluting factories in the area.

Authorities in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau are seeking approval from the Ministry of Transport for a feasibility study on a tunnel connecting the neighbouring province of Lao Cai.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to push beyond their limits and strive for growth at a Government conference with the group on February 27.

The Vietnam and China Coast Guard forces conducted their first joint patrol of 2025 in the northern waters of the Gulf of Tonkin on February 27.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has urged local airlines to add more aeroplanes amid the sharp passenger rise.

A Hue City resident in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has discovered a rare rhesus macaque injured near a local eco-tourism site.

A guard on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in HCM City was attacked after reminding a couple not to bring an unleashed dog into the area.