VIETNAM TODAY

Set design and stages are being completed at Hanoi’s My Dinh Stadium in Hanoi for Kpop supergroup Blackpink’s two-night concerts on July 29 and 30.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines have announced that they would reschedule flights to and from Northeast Asia on July 26 and 27 to avoid Storm Doksuri.

The Mekong Delta City of Can Tho has piloted the flood warning system, using cameras in vulnerable areas.

An environment worker has died and four others fell unconscious due to toxic gases when they were dredging a sewer line in HCM City's Binh Chanh District on Wednesday morning.

Singapore on Wednesday hanged a local man convicted of drug trafficking, officials said, two days before the scheduled execution of the first woman prisoner in the city-state in nearly 20 years.

HCM City received 2.30 million foreign visitors in the first seven months of this year, an increase of 208.30 percent compared to the same period last year with business travel numbers showing signs of improvement.

A monument has just been built in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue to commemorate 13 rescue members who died while searching for flood victims in Phong Dien District in October 2020.

A powerful storm hit the northern Philippines on Wednesday, toppling trees, knocking out power and dumping heavy rain as thousands sheltered with neighbours or in emergency evacuation centres.

The HCM City Department of Transport has recommended adding three metro routes to the city’s adjusted master development for 2040 and a vision to 2060.

Shrimp experts and businesses gathered at the Shrimp Summit 2023 in Ho Chi Minh City to seek measures to tackle challenges facing the shrimp sector in Asia and the globe, ensuring the sustainability and climate change resilience of the sector.

Vietnam and Israel signed a bilateral free trade agreement in Jerusalem on July 25, creating a legal corridor for the two countries to promote economic development and trade exchanges.

Hanoi People's Committee announced on Tuesday that it has approved the upcoming BLACKPINK concert on the nights of July 29 and 30 at Mỹ Đình stadium as planned.

Thousands of beauty parlours across Afghanistan closed permanently on Tuesday following an order by Taliban authorities that cuts off one of the few revenue streams available to women, as well as a cherished space for socialising.

Hanoi’s dengue fever cases have sharply increased over the past three weeks, according to the Hanoi Centre for Disease Control (CDC Hanoi).

The latest deposit interest rates at the four major banks have simultaneously decreased to the lowest level in one year.

A super typhoon swept towards the northern Philippines on Tuesday, the country’s weather agency said, triggering evacuation orders for coastal communities expected to bear the brunt of the powerful storm.

Two new railway lines are planned by 2030 for passenger and freight transportation according to the approved Railway Network Planning by the Prime Minister.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on July 24 issued a document guiding the use of vaccines against African swine fever (ASF) nationwide.

Remittances to HCM City have seen a surge of 37 per cent in the first half of 2023, reaching a total of US$4.33 billion, according to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).