VIETNAM TODAY

The Vietnamese student team has won the gold medal at the world robotics competition (FIRST Global Challenge – FGC 2023).

An initiative to renovate lakes as part of efforts to ease traffic congestion has won the first prize at the 2023 National Traffic Safety Contest.

At least four people have been killed and an unknown number injured after an express train derailed in India's Bihar state, local media reported Thursday.

Vietnam has tremendous opportunities to develop its semiconductor industry, but the biggest hurdle to the sector’s growth is a lack of high-quality workforce.

Heavy rains will expand from the central region to the northern localities from Thursday afternoon, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son on October 11 highly valued Japan’s educational development, and suggested the country share its experience with Vietnam to step up bilateral cooperation in this field.

Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar is scheduled to pay an official visit to Vietnam and co-chair the 18th session of the Vietnam – India Joint Commission on October 15-17.

Around 5,000 women will participate in a festival to honour Vietnam’s most well-known traditional outfits, the long dress or Ao Dai and the traditional southern Vietnamese blouse or Ao Ba Ba.

Vietnam’s consumer price index is projected to grow between 3.2% and 3.6% this year, the Ministry of Finance said at a meeting of the Steering Committee on Price Management in Hanoi on October 11.

More than 90 per cent of those killed in a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan were women and children, UNICEF said Wednesday, as fresh tremors terrorised residents of villages flattened by the disaster.

HCM City authorities have approved the design of a pedestrian bridge for the Saigon River.

Petrol retail prices continued to fall sharply from October 11 following an adjustment by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Ministry of Finance.

The East-West Center (EWC) is offering scholarships for graduate study at the University of Hawai‘i.

Many roads in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have been left under water due to heavy rains.

Two teenagers have died after a fire broke out at their house in the central city of Danang's Thanh Khe District early Wednesday morning.

Vietnam’s central region is experiencing heavy rains with rainfall of up to 300 mm, posing flooding risks for many areas.

The Mekong Delta province of Long An has just reported the first infection of monkeypox, bringing the total number of patients suffering from the disease in Vietnam to 16 with the majority in HCM City.

Border guards in the Mekong Delta Province of An Giang have had to intensify patrols of local waterways to prevent a rising tide of smuggling during the flood season.

Local police have said that two tourists lied about being robbed in the northern province of Cao Bang as part of an attempt to get an insurance payout.