VIETNAM TODAY

The Transport Department in HCM City has asked the municipal centre for road traffic management to conduct a feasibility study on opening a separate bike lanes in the city centre.

The Politburo, the Party Secretariat and high-level leaders have directed professional units and mobilised leading medical professors, physicians and medical experts to prioritise health care for the Party leader.

For decades, people in the Gao and Ga market area in HCM City's District 1 have struggled to live in tiny 2-4 square metre houses.

Vietnamese athletes promised to give their best Olympic performance in Paris while speaking at the send-off ceremony held on July 17 in Hanoi.

Vietnam, along with Thailand, are the two fastest growing e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, according to the recently released report '2024 E-commerce in Southeast Asia' by Momentum Works.

A fire that tore through a shopping centre in southwestern China has killed 16 people, state media reported Thursday.

Vietnam has officially presented the Submission of Vietnam’s extended continental shelf in respect of Central Area of the East Sea (South China Sea) to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

More than 3,000 national and international marathoners have registered to participate in the Quang Binh International Marathon 2024, the first of its kind to be held in Dong Hoi city, central Vietnam, on July 28.

The Vietnamese stock market has failed to break the crucial 1,300-point threshold despite various efforts, preventing the establishment of a sustainable upward trend.

Authorities of the southern central province of Khanh Hoa have proposed an investment of VND8 trillion (USD314.34 million) to build Van Phong Airport.

A bridge connecting Haiphong City and the northern province of Quang Ninh was opened to traffic on Wednesday after more than two years of construction.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Thomas Vallely, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Fulbright University Vietnam, and other experts from the university in Hanoi on July 17.

Editors of New York-based travel magazine Travel+Leisure have picked Vietnam’s central Quang Binh province among the top 13 most beautiful places in the world.

Missosology, the world’s leading publication on beauty pageants, on July 16 named Vietnamese beauty Nguyen Phuong Nhi among the Top 20 Timeless Beauty 2023 shortlist.

The 8th Vietnam School on Neutrinos 2024 was opened in the central city of Quy Nhon, the central province of Binh Dinh, on July 16 by the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam is urgently coordinating with the Ministry of Public Security to verify the identities of the victims who were found dead at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 16 evening, said Pham

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has slightly raised its economic growth forecast for developing Asia and the Pacific this year to 5.0% from a previous projection of 4.9%, as rising regional exports complement resilient domestic demand.

Air ticket prices have increased since the beginning of July, the peak summer holiday time.

Many people have continued to swim at a reservoir in the northern province of Hoa Binh despite the hydropower plant's discharging water.