VIETNAM TODAY

A 50-year-old man in Viet Tri City in the northern province of Phu Tho has died while trying to save a dog from high floodwaters.

The railway sector has helped provide free transportation of relief aid to flood-hit localities in the northern region of Vietnam.

Domestic retail petroleum prices dropped sharply at 3 pm today, September 12, following a decision by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

The first Health Science Institute in the Mekong Delta is set to open in the first quarter of 2025.

A couple died, and their six-year-old son suffered injuries after a landslide hit a house in the northern province of Hoa Binh early Thursday morning.

The second Hanoi autumn festival, which was originally scheduled to take place from September 12 to September 15, will be postponed due to the impact of typhoon Yagi and the subsequent flooding.

UNICEF has provided water supplies to government partners for distribution to households, hospitals, health facilities and schools in three of the most impacted provinces by typhoon Yagi in Vietnam, said UNICEF Vietnam Representative Silvia Danailov.

A sharp rise has been recorded in foreign trade over the past few months, and if this upward trend is sustained, this year’s foreign trade turnover is likely to break the record of 732 billion USD set in 2022.

A delegation of the Ministry of National Security of Vietnam led by Deputy Minister Hoang Xuan Chien attended the 13th Seoul Defense Dialogue (SDD 2024) in the Republic of Korea from September 10-12.

HCM City Green Park Ltd. Co. staff have been sent to Hanoi to help clear fallen trees following Typhoon Yagi.

Dantri/DTiNews Newspaper is calling for community support to help a village in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai where many people had been killed and left missing due to a flash flood and landslide.

Hundreds of people have been deployed to search for missing victims of a flash flood in a village in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

The water level of the Red River running through Hanoi is decreasing after reaching its peak on Wednesday evening.

The Hanoi Department of Transport has just banned all boats from operating on some large rivers, streams, and lakes due to rising flood water.

Seventeen bodies have been recovered from the landslide that swept away a passenger bus and two cars in Cao Bang Province, the Ministry of Public Security has announced.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Hoàng Hiệp on Wednesday afternoon confirmed that China had notified Vietnam of its plan to release water from a hydropower dam upstream of the Lô River.

Malaysian authorities have rescued hundreds of children from care homes where they were allegedly physically and sexually abused and have arrested scores of people in large scale raids, police said Wednesday.

Demand for industrial land remains high, especially in the southern region, with ready-built warehouses and factories increasingly attracting investors, according to Savills Vietnam.

World-renowned string quartet Bond will hold a charity concert on October 5 in Hanoi as part of the Good Morning Vietnam series, with all proceeds from ticket sales going to assist flood victims affected by typhoon Yagi.