VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam racked up a trade surplus of US$8.01 billion during the first five months of the year, lower than last year’s figure of US$10.2 billion, according to the latest data released by the General Statistics Office.

Police in the northern province of Thai Binh's Vu Thu District are investigating the death of a five-year-old boy who was left on a school bus on Wednesday.

The Vietnamese team has successfully beaten more than 470 contestants from 160 teams of 49 different countries at the global final of the Huawei ICT competition 2023 to 2024 which recently concluded in Shenzhen in China.

Mountaineers on Everest left the world's highest peak on Wednesday, ending a climbing season that broke multiple records but left eight people dead, tourism officials and expedition organisers said.

Vietnam welcomed 7.583 million international visitors in the first five months of 2024, with Chinese tourists in the highest numbers hitting the top spot in May, the first time this has happened in five years.

Southern localities, including HCM City, will experience heavy rains in the coming days.

Dantri Newspaper started construction on Wednesday morning on ten new houses for low-income families in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang's Chiem Hoa District.

Authorities in HCM City launched a new open-top, double-decker bus route for tourists in central areas on Wednesday morning.

The country has been named among the list of Asian travelers’ top places to beat heat, according to Japanese daily Nikkei Asia.

Vietnam's North-South Railway has faced continuous disruption caused by deteriorating tunnels.

The black mushroom cloud had barely faded in Ghazni province before kids clustered around the edge of the crater created by the mine, one of the devices that kills a child every other day in Afghanistan.

A disabled man in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang is calling for financial support to build a new house as his old one is facing collapse.

Public schools will provide free education to five-year-old children from the 2024 - 2025 school year that starts in September.

The military command of the central province of Quang Binh coordinated with the PeaceTrees Vietnam project to safely detonated a 334kg bomb left from the war on May 28.

More than 2,500 domestic and international runners will take part in the Quang Tri Marathon 2024 - Journey to the 'Land of Fire' on June 15-16.

Hanoi has set a goal to put around 96.8 kilometres of metro into operation by 2030.

Children's products sold by the Chinese-founded online shopping giant Shein contained toxic substances in amounts hundreds of times above acceptable levels, the government of South Korea's capital Seoul said Tuesday.

A fire has occurred at a restaurant in the northern province of Hai Duong, killing one person and injuring another.

An Indian climber rescued from Everest has died in hospital, a Nepali tourism official said Tuesday, taking the number of fatalities this season on the world's highest mountain to eight.