VIETNAM TODAY

Students and teachers at the Tri Le 4 Primary School in the central province of Nghe An are calling for financial help to build new facilities.

The central city of Danang's popular Son Tra Night Market will be closed and relocated.

Nearly 200 people joined firefighting efforts on Monday to control a large forest blaze in the northern province of Yen Bai.

The second Summer Yoga Festival is expected to attract approximately 1,500 practitioners as it is due to take place in Ha Long City of northern Quang Ninh province on May 25 - 26.

In its recent global research report titled “Vietnam – Q1 GDP to moderate amid rising inflation”, Standard Chartered Bank forecasts Vietnam’s Q1 GDP growth will moderate to a still-strong 6.1 per cent year-on-year (from 6.7 per cent in Q4).

Three Vietnamese donors with a rare blood type have helped save the life of a 64-year-old British man with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP).

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue affirmed that Vietnam attaches importance to developing its traditional friendship and multi-faceted cooperation with Finland.

VNDirect, the first online trading broker in Vietnam, said on March 25 that it has resolved a cyberattack by an international organisation on its system and has been making efforts to restore the entire system in order to limit

The UK’s Home Office on March 25 launched a social media campaign in Vietnam to deter migrants from coming to the UK illegally, following successful similar drives in Albania, France and Belgium.

At least 13 people were killed in the southern Philippines on Monday after a collision between a dump truck loaded with sand and a passenger van, local authorities said.

The Ministry of Health said that there is still a potential risk of avian flu infection in humans.

The Phu Yen Provincial People's Committee issued a VND3.40 billion fine for the Fococev Company for illegally discharging wastewater which caused environmental pollution.

A 4.0 magnitude earthquake occurred in Hanoi’s outlying district of My Duc on Monday morning.

Three members of a family in the southern province of Dong Nai have died of asphyxiation after entering a biogas facility at their pig farm on Monday morning.

The Ministry of Transport has just asked the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam to prepare for peak season amid an aircraft shortage facing some major carriers.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ha Long Bay received over 610,000 visitors, earning over VND 200 billion (USD8.07 million) in ticket sales in the first three months of this year, according to its management board.

Vietnam's ambition to elevate its stock market from "frontier" to "emerging" status by 2025 faces two key hurdles, including pre-trade margin requirements for foreign investors and foreign ownership ratios in certain sectors.

Mong Cai Border Gate in the northern province of Quang Ninh is serving between 20,500-30,000 Chinese tourists to Vietnam, according to the Mong Cai Customs Department.

Two cueists Tran Quyet Chien and Bao Phuong Vinh made history for Vietnam when they defeated their Spanish opponents at the 2024 World Championship Three-Cushion National Teams in Germany on March 24, securing the championship title for the first time.