VIETNAM TODAY

Four bus routes linking Danang City and Quang Nam Province in the central region of Vietnam will be reopened on the coming Reunification Day and Labour Day holiday following a long suspension.

Enhancing regional food security and tackling the pressing challenges of climate change will be key agendas defining Malaysia’s ASEAN Chairmanship in 2025, Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat (lower house) Johari Abdul told the press on April 19.

At least two tourists and a crew member were injured after their boat collided with a ferry on the Tien River in the southern province of An Giang on Friday afternoon.

The HCM City Centre for Disease Control said that in the past week, the city has recorded an increase in cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) and dengue fever.

Vietnam’s development achievements have made the country a growth model for many others including Venezuela, said Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros.

The US Office of Defense Cooperation has just handed over Trieu Thuan Kindergarten to the Quang Tri Provincial People's Committee.

As the year 2024 is expected to witness the start of the fourth wave of foreign direct investment to Vietnam, localities nationwide are getting ready to absorb foreign capital flows.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will auction SJC-branded gold bars on April 22, a representative of the central bank said on April 19.

The average lending interest rate for new loans by commercial banks is reported at around 6.4% per year, a decrease of 0.7 percentage point per year compared to the end of last year.

The northern province of Ninh Binh served nearly five million tourists in the first four months of this year.

A driver of Noi Bai Airport Services Company has returned VND152 million (USD5,905) left by a passenger.

A new bridge opened on Friday in the northern mountainous province of Son La, connecting two remote villages in Ngoc Chien Commune, Muong Lat District.

An online exhibition featuring the Trang An Landscape Complex has been launched on Google Arts & Culture by the complex's management board with the support of Google Arts & Culture and UNESCO World Heritage Centre.

Noi Bai and Danang international airports have been selected to the World’s Top 100 Airports 2024 list by the British aviation consultancy Skytrax.

The Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board has just proposed to relocate and cut down 453 trees for construction of the city's second metro line.

Global warming has played a key role in gradually thinning the glaciers atop Puncak Jaya, Papua, Indonesia, some of the few remaining tropical glaciers in the world, according to Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics.

Oil prices rallied and equities sank Friday as reports said explosions had been heard in Iran and Syria, fuelling fears of an escalation of the Middle East crisis after last weekend's missile attack on Israel by Tehran.

Nearly 1,000 houses in the two northern mountainous provinces of Cao Bang and Lao Cai had roofs blown off in a whirlwind that ravaged the area on Thursday.

The Beautycare Expo 2024 kicked off Hanoi on April 18, featuring over 250 booths from more than 15 countries and territories.