VIETNAM TODAY

Two taxi drivers in HCM City have been found with an installed device that fixed the meter to cheat customers.

“Supermarket Affairs” by Vietnamese director Nguyen Luong Hang is one of the four candidates from Southeast Asia competing at the ongoing Palm Springs International ShortFest, the largest film festival for short films in the US.

Low-cost airline VietJet Air and Safran Seats have signed a contract at the Paris Air Show 2023 to equip its new fleet with modern seats.

A Chinese national was charged Tuesday after allegedly attacking diners with an axe-like weapon at three restaurants in New Zealand's largest city, injuring four.

Many craftsmen in HCM City have seen their revenues drop by 90 percent as orders have plunged due to the economic downturn, leaving them facing a financial crisis.

The State Bank of Vietnam has delivered cuts to its policy rate three times in less than three months, each time of 50 basis points, to assist the country’s economic growth via the credit channel.

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

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has banned a woman from travelling by air for 12 months for using fake papers to travel.

The death toll in Nepal from weekend floods and landslides rose to six, officials said Monday, as rescuers continue to search for 28 missing people.

Vietnam Railway Corporation has proposed two railway routes connecting Cao Xa Station in the northern province of Hai Duong to China.

A young woman in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau is in desperate need of financial support to cover medical treatment for serious injuries caused by a traffic accident over a year ago.

HCM City has worked out scenarios to respond to hand, foot and mouth disease amid the increasing number of patients.

The State Bank of Vietnam is cutting down a series of key interest rates by 0.25%-0.5% from June 19, which is expected to make a double impact on the economy thanks to stronger credit activities and higher liquidity.

Many rivers in the Mekong Delta region have been struck by erosion, sweeping dozens of houses away.

President Yoon Suk-yeol of the Republic of Korea will play an official visit to Vietnam from June 22-24 at the invitation of Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in its press communique.

The EU's ban on deforestation-linked imports are causing concern among Vietnamese producers as the requirements to trace commodities back to their origin can push up costs and entail finding alternative suppliers.

The demand for coffee seedlings has been on the rise in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak amid higher coffee prices.

More than 1,500 people joined in a mass yoga performance in the central coastal city of Danang on Sunday evening.

Fish farmers in Van Phong Bay, the largest in the central province of Khanh Hoa Province, are appealing for help after they claimed that gangsters were intimidating them into selling lobsters for cheap.