VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s rosy economic prospects have helped consolidate the confidence of foreign firms in the country, as reflected through their investment of 6.17 billion USD in the first quarter of this year, up 13.4% year-on-year.

Vehicles have suffered tyre blowouts from extreme heat when travelling on the Cam Lo-La Son Expressway in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

A man in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang has been arrested for growing over 1,300 opium poppies on his farm.

Danang City Customs Department announced on Thursday that they have seized 60,000 lobster seeds that had been illegally brought through Danang International Airport.

Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi said on Friday morning that they returned a wallet which contained personal papers and thousands of Euros to a passenger who left it after a flight to the airport.

The central province of Quang Ngai will organise a tourism week from April 22 to May 5.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment has proposed two economic growth scenarios for this year at the Government's regular meeting held in Hanoi.

Work to renovate the area around Thien Quang Lake in Hanoi’s Hai Ba Trung District has just kicked off.

A VND1.8 trillion (USD72 million) tourism project in the central province of Quang Ngai remains unfinished after 19 years of construction work.

Work on the VND8.3 trillion (USD332 million) Thuong Cat Bridge in Hanoi will start in October this year.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Construction Department has complained that poor housing has infringed on and contributed to the pollution affecting several of the city’s canals.

The northern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to witness two consecutive rainy spells.

Vietnam and Yemen share 15th position in the list of countries at the most risks of natural disasters globally in 2023, an improvement from the 12th position in 2022 for the country, according to the latest WorldRiskReport.

Relief workers set aside stuffed toys, blankets and baby formula for families sheltering Thursday in an elementary school in Hualien, the epicentre of Taiwan's biggest earthquake in a quarter of a century.

Teachers need higher salaries to improve their quality of life, experts said at a workshop titled 'Teacher regulation - International experience for Vietnam' organised by HCM City National University.

More than 600 people have been mobilised to deal with a fire forest in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

The average annual growth rate of patent applications and utility solutions was 9.8 per cent per year in the last ten years with Vietnamese entities filling 7,560 applications, according to the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam, while foreign entities

The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang will host the 3rd International Hot-air Balloon Festival from April 27 to May 2, according to organisers.

Singapore’s economic losses due to heat stress could nearly double to 1.64 billion USD in 2035 from pre-pandemic 2018 due to a decline in labour productivity, a recent study by the National University of Singapore showed.