VIETNAM TODAY

The World Championship Three-Cushion 2024 is scheduled to take place in Phan Thiet city, south Vietnam, this September, announced the Vietnam Billiards & Snooker Federation.

Vietnam is confident in realising the goal of eliminating malaria by 2030, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong.

A collision between a fishing boat and a cargo ship off the central province of Quang Ngai has left one dead and two others missing.

Air tickets still remain expensive and scarce on many north-south routes despite the peak Tet holiday travel period having passed.

Bernard Healthcare and University of Yamanashi Hospital (Japan) have collaborated to develop the Ningen Dock health screening model in Vietnam through a series of events in January 2024, including the International Cancer Workshop and the Announcement Ceremony of Strategic

Phu Quoc Island in the southern province of Kien Giang has seen a sharp rise in foreign tourists since the beginning of the year.

The Vietnamese Embassy in the UK is working closely with competent authorities in the UK to fact-check the case that seven allegedly Vietnamese migrants were detected at Newhaven port in Lewes district of East Sussex county.

Global wealth intelligence firm New World Wealth is predicting that Vietnam will witness wealth growth of up to 125 per cent over the next 10 years.

A poor woman in the central province of Nghe An is in desperate need of support as she has to take care of her ailing husband and father-in-law.

Many firms in the industrial parks in the southern province of Binh Duong are actively recruiting workers following the Tet Lunar New Year.

The Saigon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company has offered 30 percent discount tickets on different routes after the Tet Lunar New Year.

The People’s Committee of Hanoi’s Tay Ho district has organised a sticky rice festival and a ceremony to announce the craft of cooking sticky rice in Phu Thuong village as a national intangible cultural heritage.

The Ministry of Education and Training has announced the admission of 1,000 students to study in Russia in 2024 under a scholarship agreement signed between the two countries.

The Ministry of National Defence held a ceremony in Hanoi on February 22 to present the President’s decision to dispatch four military officers to the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Abyei area.

China said Thursday it had signed agreements to send pandas to a zoo in San Diego, after nearly all the beloved black-and-white animals on loan in the United States were returned during years of diplomatic tensions.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has asked local airlines to provide information on their domestic route prices during the 2024 Tet Lunar New Year holiday.

The Cam Lo-La Son Expressway in the central province of Quang Tri has seen 36 accidents, killing six people and injuring 20 others in the first year it has been open.

A large area of forest in the Hoang Lien National Park has been damaged in two consecutive fires which occurred between February 19-21.

Vietnam’s aquatic product exports in January surged 60.8% year-on-year to 730 million USD, making a positive signal for the year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Agency of Foreign Trade.