VIETNAM TODAY

The Gia Lai Provincial People’s Committee has approved the investment policy for the first phase of Phu My Port, with total capital exceeding VND 6 trillion (approximately USD 236 million).

Party General Secretary To Lam on August 13 attended the inauguration of Vietnam’s Consulate General in Busan.

Efforts to bring OCOP (One Commune One Product) items to international markets are being actively promoted by cooperatives through a variety of approaches.

A Hanoi-based lawyer has decided to provide free legal defence for Thai Khac Thanh from Nghe An Province, who was sentenced to six years in prison for selling silver pheasants, a protected species.

As Vietnam’s electric vehicle (EV) market is booming and not a “playground” of a single business, both domestic and foreign enterprises are accelerating to occupy this promising market.

Residents of Nhon Chau Island Commune in Gia Lai Province have, after many years, witnessed the rare sight of baby sea turtles emerging from the sand and making their way to the sea at night.

Several agencies are relocating to hand over the site for the construction of a new square and park on the eastern side of Hoan Kiem Lake.

Three Chinese nationals have been arrested for illegally using international payment cards to appropriate funds in Vietnam, Danang police said on August 11.

Two teenagers were killed when a mass of soil and rocks from a hillside collapsed onto a café where they were drinking coffee.

Party General Secretary To Lam and RoK PM Kim Min-seok witnessed the exchange of dozens of cooperation documents between ministries, agencies, and localities from the two countries.

Camera traps have recorded numerous species listed in the Red Data Book within Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Tri, according to the park’s management board.

Hon Cau Marine Protected Area in Lam Dong Province received and released a 12-kilo sea turtle back into the wild this morning, August 12.

A car suddenly reversed into a crowd in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on Monday evening, killing one child and injuring 11 others.

Singapore is at risk of chikungunya transmission as the number of reported cases this year has more than doubled compared to last year, the country’s Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) has reported.

Thousands of employees in banking, technology, and other industries have lost their jobs in recent months due to downsizing, with many industrial zones also reporting large-scale workforce cuts.

A company in the northern province of Phu Tho has been caught turning a thousand tonnes of frozen Indian buffalo meat into Ha Giang-branded smoked buffalo meat.

Pham The Hien Apartments in HCM City have seriously deteriorated, threatening hundreds of residents.

A serious workplace accident at the Quy Nhon-Chi Thanh Expressway construction site in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has killed two and injured one.

Party General Secretary To Lam and President of the Republic of Korea Lee Jae Myung co-chaired a joint press briefing to share the outcomes of their talks on August 11.