VIETNAM TODAY

A swimming teacher in Hanoi's Ha Dong District has just been detained after a student drowned in his class.

Many flights to Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi have had to land at other airports due to bad weather.

A woman in the northern province of Quang Nam is in desperate need of help to save her son who is on the verge of death.

Construction on terminals at Long Thanh and Tan Son Nhat international airports in the southern region has been scheduled to begin on August 26.

The increased cost-of-living crisis sparked by surging inflation last year is continuing to push people in Asia and the Pacific into extreme poverty, according to a new report by the Asian Development Bank.

India on Wednesday became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon's south pole, a historic triumph for the world's most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space programme.

Singapore's PM Lee Hsien Loong will pay an official visit to Viet Nam from August 27-29 at the invitation of PM Pham Minh Chinh, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced.

Public bus travellers in the central city of Danang are complaining about recent slow services while many staff members are quitting jobs due to late pay.

Authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai have allowed local businesses to sell mud and sand after being dredged from local ports.

Casper Vietnam Company has just donated VND100 million to a Dantri Bridge construction project in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho.

Final preparations to discharge wastewater from the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan were under way Wednesday, its operator said, a day before the scheduled release into the Pacific Ocean.

Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab province, emergency services said on Wednesday.

A herd of buffaloes in the central province of Quang Tri has attacked local people and damaged forests.

Around 1,287 households illegally residing in the premises of Hue Citadel will be relocated.

More than 10 cars suffered flat tyres while travelling on a road in the southern province of Binh Duong on Tuesday evening.

The Royal Caribbean International Group hosted a ceremony in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau in order to celebrate the recovery of the international cruise industry and committed to bringing passengers to Vietnam.

There are still many opportunities for Vietnamese businesses in the artificial intelligence development competition, said Huynh Ngoc Quang, Director of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group.

Many experts on the property market proposed cutting interest rates of loans for investing or buying social housing products to 4.5-6% per year from 8.2-8.7% at present.

Former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra returned to the kingdom Tuesday after 15 years in exile and was immediately jailed, just hours before his party's candidate was elected prime minister.