VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam ranked first in Southeast Asia in terms of the growth rate in demand for foreign travel, at 170% in the second quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in 2019, Google announced on August 30.

A Vietnamese fishing boat from the central province of Quang Ngai has reported being chased and attacked by a Chinese Coast Guard patrol vessel in Vietnamese waters.

Oktoberfest, the annual German beer and food festival and the biggest of its kind in Southeast Asia, is returning to three cities in Vietnam this year, according to the German Business Association.

PM Pham Minh Chinh attended the opening ceremony of Vinh Tuy 2 Bridge, which is the largest bridge spanning the Red River in Hanoi on Wednesday morning.

Many people are flocking to Phan Dinh Phung Street in Hanoi to take photos amid the autumn atmosphere.

Takashi Hosoda was in a Tokyo skyscraper when the 9.0 magnitude quake struck on March 11, 2011, but the trained architect was "not particularly worried" as modern Japanese buildings are designed to protect their occupants.

More than 100 households with nearly 200 people in the northern province of Hoa Binh are living in fear of landslides from a nearby hill.

A woman in the central province of Ha Tinh who is struggling with cervical cancer is in desperate need of support.

The eighth border defence friendship exchange between Vietnam and China is scheduled to take place in Vietnam’s northern province of Lao Cai and its neighbouring Chinese province of Yunnan on September 7 - 8.

Vietnam’s rare earth mining industry will likely experience rapid growth in the near future, according to industry experts, as demand has been on the rise steadily in the last few decades.

The southern province of Binh Thuan will hold the first Street Culture Festival on September 2.

Miss World beauty contest organisers say they are considering holding the pageant in the disputed territory of Indian-administered Kashmir as part of a month-long series of events across India.

Vietnam’s consumer price index during first eight-month of this year rose by 3.10 percent on-year, according to the General Statistics Office.

Storm Saola has been forecasted to enter the East Sea in some days to come, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his visiting Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong visited students at the Vietnam National University-Hanoi on Tuesday morning.

The scientific and educational organisation “Rencontres du Vietnam” (Meeting Vietnam) has presented 175 Vallet scholarships worth 2.59 billion VND ( 107,135 USD) in total to outstanding Vietnamese students.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his visiting Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong on August 29 attended a conference in Hanoi to discuss measures aimed at speeding up Vietnam-Singapore joint projects.

US President Joe Biden is scheduled to pay a visit to Vietnam from September 10-11 at the invitation of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

The pilot run of HCM City’s Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro line was implemented this morning, August 29.