VIETNAM TODAY

President Vo Van Thuong hosted a reception in Hanoi on March 11 for Prosecutor General of Mongolia Jargalsaikhan Banzragch.

"Oppenheimer" had a glittering night at the Oscars but in Hiroshima, devastated by the first nuclear bomb in 1945, the film about the weapon's creator is harder to stomach.

Many people in Hanoi have had to turn to small-sized houses in small lanes with prices ranging from VND3-5 billion, due to difficulties finding an apartment due to low availability and rising prices.

The Japanese Embassy in Vietnam has funded construction of school classrooms in Phú Túc Commune and a kindergarten in Hòa Phú Commune of the central city’s Hòa Vang District through the Japanese Government’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project.

The northern central province of Thanh Hoa has experienced a notable increase in rabies cases, with four outbreak clusters resulting in two deaths and exposing 86 individuals to the disease.

Vietnam’s gross domestic product size last year was estimated to stand at about US$433.3 billion, ranking fifth in Southeast Asia, according to the latest figures released by the International Monetary Fund.

Asian markets mostly fell Monday after a forecast-busting jobs report dampened US interest rate cut hopes, with attention now turning to the release of key inflation data this week.

Two people died and nine others suffered injuries after a passenger bus crashed into a truck on the Cam Lo-La Son Expressway in Thua Thien-Hue Province on Sunday evening.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon co-chaired a press conference following their talks in Wellington on March 11 morning, saying they agreed to promote all-round cooperation to raise the two countries’ relations

The revised Land Law holds great significance in the country’s political, socioeconomic life and national defence and security as well as has impacts on people from all walks of life and the business community.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a working session with the group of Vietnamese professionals working in New Zealand (VietTech NZ) in Auckland on March 10 as part of his official visit to NZ.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his spouse chaired a welcome ceremony with the traditional Maori ritual for Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh and his spouse who are on an official visit to NZ from March 10-11.

More than 100 artists are performing at the Vietnam Classical Music Festival which opened in the UNESCO Creative Music City of Da Lat, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on March 10.

The death toll from flash flooding and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to 21, an official said Sunday, with six people still missing.

Cities and provinces across the country are focusing on social housing development as part of a national strategy to meet the growing needs of their residents.

Both Vietnam and New Zealand should bring into full play untapped cooperation areas, striving to soon raise their two-way trade turnover to US$2 billion from last year’s US$1.3 billion.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has instructed concerned ministries to take urgent actions to deal with the freshwater shortage in the Mekong Delta region.

2024 will continue to be a challenging year for the leather and footwear industry but there are still many prospects to increase exports this year, according to Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag