VIETNAM TODAY

Photographer Tran Tuan Viet has been named as winner of the National & Regional Award category at the Sony World Photography Awards 2024.

Air ticket prices have continued increasing due to higher demand as Tet Lunar New Year nears.

Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi and Tan Son Nhat Airport in HCM City have just started a one-month trial of a new electronic toll collection system for motor vehicles sinceTuesday.

The National Wage Council has proposed to the Government a 6% increase in the regional minimum wage, equivalent to 238,000 VND per month on average, starting from July 1.

The Thai government will urgently move a bill to ban the recreational use of cannabis, the health minister said on Tuesday, after the kingdom decriminalised the drug in 2022.

Policemen in Hanoi are struggling to deal with serious traffic congestion in the run-up to the Tet Lunar New Year Holiday.

Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City has opened a flower road to welcome the Tet Lunar New Year Festival.

The police in the northern city of Haiphong have fined a coach company for cramming in nearly double the regulated capacity.

The northern port city of Hai Phong is rolling out measures to make breakthroughs in the development of economic zones (EZ) and industrial parks (IP) to attract more foreign direct investment.

A cold front has been forecasted to affect northern localities during the Lunar New Year.

Two bus routes running through tourism sites have just been launched in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Singapore's parliament passed a law on Monday that could jail "dangerous" sex offenders and violent criminals indefinitely.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has set a target to produce some 500,000 tonnes of seaweed by 2030 as part of the nation’s seafood development strategy.

Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM) has announced that it has moved to apply low visibility procedures (LVP) at Noi Bai International Airport due to bad weather conditions.

Chairman of the Board and CEO of VG Corp, Vo Duy Nghia, has met with Chairman of The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of Andrews (The R&A) Niall Farquharson during his recent business trip to Thailand for the ongoing

A 6.5kg hawksbill sea turtle that was accidentally caught by a local man was released back to the sea off the coast of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on February 5.

Former coach of Vietnamese national football team Park Hang-seo has just signed a contract to become a consultant of the newly-established Bac Ninh Football Club who will play in Vietnamese Football League Second Division for the 2024 season.

The central province of Quang Tri has assigned organisations to clear about 42 million sq.m. of land contaminated with cluster bombs this year, said its steering committee for settling war-left unexploded ordnance consequences.

Vietnamese students won a gold and a bronze medal at the 2024 Project Chemistry Olympiad (PCO) held in Russia, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.