VIETNAM TODAY

After more than 12 years of implementing tobacco control measures, the rate of active smoking among adults in Vietnam has decreased, but ultimately, it is still high when compared globally.

Hanoi Police have dismantled a criminal network engaged in fraudulent activities through illegal forex and stock trading platforms.

Indonesian fruit seller Budi was seeking better prospects when he signed up for an IT job in Cambodia.

Prolonged heavy rains have caused landslides on some roads in Nha Trang City in the southern central province of Khanh Hoa.

The Vietnam National University, Hanoi, has climbed to 325th in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2025.

The Viettel Lang Son Logistics Park, the first of its kind in Vietnam, officially opened in Cao Loc district, the northern mountainous province of Lang Son, on December 11.

More than 45,400 illegal aquaculture cages in Ha Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh have been destroyed.

Authorities in the southern economic hub, Ho Chi Minh City, have set an ambitious target of completing seven metro line projects totalling 355 km by 2035.

South Korea's former defence minister tried to kill himself shortly before he was formally arrested over his role in this month's martial law operation, a senior prisons official said Wednesday.

Two teenagers were killed in a traffic accident that occurred in the Central Highlands Province of Dak Nong's Tuy Duc District on Tuesday.

US policy changes under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump are likely to affect the region’s longer-term outlook, according to a new report by the ADB.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on December 10 for a delegation of the US Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) led by its Chairman John Neuffer.

South Korean authorities banned more top officials from leaving the country Tuesday, in the wake of President Yoon Suk Yeol's bungled attempt to impose martial law.

The UNDP is willing to support Vietnam in conducting reforms to create an ecosystem to facilitate the transition to a greener circular and low-carbon economy, towards sustainable development.

For Saja, studying nursing at a healthcare institute in Kabul was her last lifeline to make something of herself after women were banned from universities in Afghanistan two years ago.

A Javan pangolin has been found wandering on a road in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong's Lac Duong District.

Two South Korean men riding a motorbike crashed into a median barrier in the northern province of Hoa Binh, leaving one dead and the other injured.

A river in the central province of Nghe An's Ky Son District has been covered in rubbish following a recent flash flood.

Authorities in the central province of Ha Tinh have just announced the causes of the mass mangrove forest deaths in the area.