VIETNAM TODAY

Two women have been found dead after a fire broke out in their rented room on Mac Thien Tich Street, in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 on Tuesday morning.

Shares of Vietnam’s leading electric vehicle maker VinFast, owned by Billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong amounted to US$93/share at a time, raising the market value to more than US$191 billion on the Nasdaq trading session on August 28.

Asian markets extended a global rally Tuesday ahead of US data this week that could be key to the Federal Reserve's decision-making on interest rates.

Chairman of the People's Committee of Binh Duong province Vo Van Minh on August 28 signed a decision approving the establishment of Vietnam-Singapore Innovation Centre in the southern locality.

A 250-kilo bomb measuring 1.60 metres in length has just been found at a road construction site in the central province of Ha Tinh.

The organisation of live-fire drills in the waters around Ba Binh island belonging to Vietnam's Truong Sa (Spratly) is a serious infringement upon Vietnam's territorial sovereignty over Truong Sa.

Although the Mid-Autumn Festival is still over a month away, Hang Ma Street in Hanoi has already been transformed with various decorative items for the festival.

Vietnam received approximately 7.8 million foreign arrivals in the first eight months of this year, meeting 97.5% of the target set for the whole year, according to the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT).

As many as 53 communes in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang are at risk of flash floods and landslides.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his visiting Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong agreed to consider upgrading the relationship between Vietnam and Singapore to a comprehensive strategic partnership in the time ahead, at their talks in Hanoi on August 28.

Indonesia has sanctioned 11 industrial firms for failing to meet operational standards as the government moves to deal with major pollution spikes in the capital Jakarta, the environment minister said Monday.

Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City is preparing to serve 3,600 flights with 625,000 passengers during the coming National Day holiday.

The Vinh Tuy Bridge 2 which is the largest bridge spanning the Red River will officially open to traffic on August 30.

Many areas in the northern mountainous province of Son La have been deeply submerged following heavy rains on Monday morning.

Vietnam’s new visa policy, applicable from August 15, will help the country lure more business travellers from Japan in September, said the Japan External Trade Organisation Chief Representative in Ho Chi Minh City Nobuyuki Matsumoto.

Vietnam’s exports are set to recover in Q4, driven primarily by a bottoming out of the US inventory cycle, but also by an acceleration in the relocation of manufacturing from China to Vietnam.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a welcome ceremony in Hanoi on Monday morning for his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong who is on an official visit to Vietnam.

Asian markets rose Monday after Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell said officials would take a careful approach regarding interest rate hikes, while Chinese shares soared after the government cut the duty on trades.