VIETNAM TODAY

HCM City has opened a chain of mini supermarkets where the poor can experience free shopping for the Tet Lunar New Year Festival.

Kon Tum Provincial Police Department announced on Thursday that they have rescued seven people from a human trafficking ring that had sold them to Myanmar.

Vietjet continues to expand its international flight network with a new route connecting Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam with Chengdu of China, contributing to promoting trade and tourism between the two cities and two countries as well.

Teachers and students at a school in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai are struggling with temperatures of minus 3 degrees centigrade.

Vietnam bid farewell to the AFC Asian Cup 2023 with a 2-3 defeat to Iraq after conceding in the last minute of the game.

A fleet of 200 electric buses transporting tourists will be launched in the centre of HCM City for a pilot period from the first quarter of 2024 until the end of 2025.

All 20 Vietnamese students put in excellent displays to win medals at the Southeast Asian Mathematical Olympiad (SEAMO) which was held from January 19 to January 22 in Singapore.

The US Agency for International Development and the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment celebrated digital workforce achievements through the Workforce for an Innovation and Start-up Ecosystem project.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Hanoi on January 24, during which the PM expressed his belief that the German leader’s ongoing visit will create a new motivation for the expansion of the Vietnam-Germany

A poor woman in the central province of Nghe An has received nearly VND200 million in donations after her story was shared on Dantri/Dtinews.

Many bonsai tree traders have set up tents on local streets to guard their peach and kumquat trees at night as they prepare for the busy Tet Lunar New Year Festival sale period.

The Vietnamese economy will grow by 6% this year with the strength of the national economy coming from a combination of consumer and investment spending, according to a report by HSBC.

Procedures to come to visit a market held along the border with Laos at the Nam Can International Border Gate in the central province of Nghe An province have been simplified.

More than 6,300 people fell prey to "fake friend" scams in Singapore last year and collectively lost an equivalent of nearly $16 million, according to police.

HCM City has reported the first patients infected with a new Covid-19 subvariant, known as JN.1, according to the municipal Department of Health.

Online travel company Agoda has named the nation among the top 5 destinations for travelers around the Asia-Pacific region looking for a getaway over the forthcoming Lunar New Year travel break.

Six people were killed and 14 injured in a gas explosion caused by a vehicle crash in Mongolia's capital on Wednesday, authorities said.

President Vo Van Thuong held talks with visiting German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Hanoi on January 23 following a welcome ceremony featuring a resounding 21-gun salute.

Overseas remittances to Ho Chi Minh City in 2023 reached over 9.46 billion USD, marking a year-on-year increase of 43.3% and a record high in the last ten years.