VIETNAM TODAY

Dantri/DTiNews readers have donated around VND5.3 billion (USD225,531) to a poor student in the central province of Nghe An.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will pay an official visit to China and attend the 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum from June 25-28.

The National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control has agreed with the Health Ministry’s proposal of moving COVID-19 from a Class A infectious disease, deemed as “especially dangerous”, to Class B "dangerous".

The new Board of Directors of Bamboo Airways elected Hideki Oshima, former executive officer at Japan Airlines, as its new chairman following the firm’s annual general meeting of shareholders 2023 in Hanoi on June 21.

Authorities in HCM City have issued a fine of VND 55 million to the organiser of the Ms. Global Success Business 2023 pageant for holding the contest without licence.

The Vietnam Report JSC has recently published the list of the top 10 prestigious banks in Vietnam in 2023, which is its annual activity to recognise efforts to develop the prestige and brands of the financial-banking sector.

Many farmers in the northern province of Bac Giang's Luc Ngan District are busy harvesting lychees from the early morning.

Authorities in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang are planning to charge visitors who stay overnight on the Dong Van Karst Plateau.

Vietnamese students were awarded one gold, three silver, and one bronze medals at the European Physics Olympiad (EuPhO) 2023 that concluded in Germany on June 20.

Bond yields in emerging East Asia declined from March to May amid easing inflationary pressure in the region and slower monetary tightening in the United States, according to the latest issue of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Asia Bond Monitor.

A prominent Pakistan businessman and his son were among five people aboard a submersible that has gone missing while exploring the wreckage of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, their family said Tuesday.

Natural disasters have left 33 people dead and missing and damaged thousands of houses in Vietnam so far this year.

Every Thursday and Sunday morning, members of the Hanoi Veterans Sports Bike Club gather in a small corner of West Lake and cycle together to improve their health.

In 2022, Vietnam had 14,790,075 ha of forest area, of which 10,134,082 ha were natural forests and 4,655,933 ha were planted ones, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has announced.

South Korea has been ordered to pay hedge fund Elliott $53.6 million in damages over the controversial 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates, Seoul's justice ministry said Tuesday.

Indonesian police have this month arrested nearly 500 suspects involved in the trafficking of more than 1,500 victims, officials said Tuesday, as Jakarta cracks down on human smuggling.

The Lao media reported on June 20 that the Vietnamese government has provided a grant of more than 2.1 million USD for the construction of a new secondary school in Xienghon district, Xayaboury province of Laos.

Vietnam's economic growth continued to face challenges which were seen in a slowdown in industrial production and declining exports due to weak external demand and global uncertainties, the World Bank’s June edition on Vietnam Macro Monitoring showed.

A python weighing 32 kilos has been handed over to Vu Quang National Park in the central province of Ha Tinh to be released into the wild.