VIETNAM TODAY

The Hanoi-Lao Cai railway has reopened after being closed for two days due to landslides in Van Yen District, Yen Bai Province.

Many streets in the central highlands province of Kon Tum have been deeply flooded after heavy rain on Monday morning.

The northern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to experience a light cold front from this evening, October 9.

Vietnamese and Chinese will be permitted to drive through Mong Cai Border Gate in the northern province of Quang Ninh to Dongxing City, China from October 30.

The Ha Long Shipbuilding Company on Sunday completed the construction of the Essence Grand Ha Long Bay Cruise 1 which will be the largest tourist cruise boat operating in the bay soon in the coming time.

The central city of Da Nang is stepping up tourism promotion in India and the Republic of Korea (RoK) to attract more visitors from these potential markets and diversify sources of international travellers.

Thanks to drastic efforts by the Government, credit growth is expected to increase positively in the last months of this year, helping ease difficulties for businesses and propelling forward the development of the economy.

Japan issued a tsunami advisory for some coastal regions early Monday following a series of shallow earthquakes in the Izu islands in the Pacific Ocean but there were no immediate reports of damage from the minor waves generated, seismologists said.

A tourist has died while climbing the Ta Chi Nhu Mountain in the northern province of Yen Bai.

The death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan rose sharply on Sunday to more than 2,000, the Taliban government said, as bodies continued to be pulled from demolished villages and buried in mass graves.

Vietnamese citizens, including the Vietnamese community, officials on business trips and tourists to Israel, have remained safe amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas militants that caused hundreds of casualties in recent days, according to the Ministry of

Vietnam is deeply concerned about the escalating violence between Hamas and Israel, calling on relevant parties to exercise restraint and negotiate to settle disagreements.

The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office has just revised the growth forecast for Vietnam’s economy in 2023, increasing it to 4.7% from the previous 4.4% stated in the July report.

PM Phạm Minh Chính has requested the heads of ministries, sectors, and localities to take drastic action against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and tackle existing shortcomings facing the work.

The death toll from an earthquake in western Afghanistan on Saturday has risen to around 120 with 1,000 more injured, disaster relief authorities said, as desperate families dug into the night to free relatives trapped in the rubble.

The south central province of Khánh Hòa has so far attracted six Japanese projects worth over US$2.65 billion, or nearly 70 per cent of the total foreign direct investment in the locality.

A family of four members in the central province of Nghe An are in desperate need of financial support to cover treatment for serious burns following a gas explosion.

Over the medium-term outlook for the next five years, a number of key drivers are expected to continue to make Vietnam one of the fastest growing emerging markets in the Asian region.