VIETNAM TODAY

The Vietnam Elevator Expo, the largest and only exhibition of its kind in the country, will take place from December 5-7, 2024 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Two teenagers have drowned when sailing a boat on a lake at Ben En National Park in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa.

Tourist visits to Sapa Town in Lao Cai Province and Ha Giang Province have plummeted despite the peak season.

HCM City is focusing more on attracting remittance from overseas Vietnamese into the city’s socio-economic development through many policies, including issuing bonds for infrastructure projects.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and other ASEAN leaders attended the closing ceremony of the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and related meetings in Vientiane, Laos, which was marked by the handover of the ASEAN Chairmanship

The southern province of Binh Dinh is urging the conversion of 250 hectares of forest, and use of another 240 hectares of forest land and over 356 hectares of rice farmland for the construction of the North-south expressway.

Authorities in the northern coastal city of Haiphong have evacuated hundreds of households from old apartment buildings that have begun to teeter in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh joined leaders of other ASEAN member countries and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the 12th ASEAN-US Summit in Vientiane on October 11.

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training today, October 11, issued a document banning students from using mobile phones in the classroom.

All Vietnamese students competing at Asian, Asia-Pacific, and global Olympiads this year won prizes, the Ministry of Education and Training has announced.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a meeting with his Japanese counterparts in Vientiane, Laos, on October 11, on the sidelines of the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits.

Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi witnessed a total of 48 incidents threatening aviation safety in the first nine months of this year, down 53 percent on-year.

Both international and Thai startups are always looking for technology talents in the Vietnamese market as this can be an advantage that Vietnam is superior to other markets, according to insiders at the Techsauce Global Summit 2024 held in

HSBC has lifted its 2024 gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for Vietnam to 7.0% from 6.5% after the country recorded stronger-than-expected growth in Q3 despite the devastation left by Typhoon Yagi.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development co-operated with authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap to release 200,000 young fish into the Tien River this morning, October 11.

Auto sales by members of the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association reached 36,585 units in September, a 45% increase over the previous month, following the implementation of a 50% reduction in registration fees for domestically manufactured and assembled vehicles.

Staff from Vietnam Railway Corporation (VNR) have returned nearly VND30 million to a passenger who somehow left the money on a Lao Cai-Hanoi train.

A motorbike crashed into a car on a street in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak’s Buon Ma Thuot City, killing two local young men early on Friday morning.

The Danang Forest Protection Department has just received three wild rare animals which were handed over by local residents.