VIETNAM TODAY

The Ministry of Education and Training will hold a ceremony to honour Vietnamese students who have won medals at the international Olympiad and science and technology contests this year.

Vietnam ranks third in terms of the number of researchers in the Republic of Korea, after China and India and above the US and Pakistan, according to a report released by the RoK Ministry of Science and ICT.

The US Department of State today opened the US-ASEAN Centre in Washington with the attendance of Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Liz Allen.

The industrial real estate market in the south was vibrant and thriving in the third quarter of 2023, with the rental area reaching 143,000 sq.m, up 2.4 times compared to the previous quarter.

A group of 17 lecturers at the Quang Nam Medical College have resigned in protest against slow payment.

Work on the VND5.83 trillion (USD239.40 million) Quang Tri Airport in the central province of Quang Tri was started today, December 15.

Famous pop rock band Maroon 5 of the United States touched down at Phu Quoc International Airport on December 14 to prepare for their debut performance in Vietnam on December 16.

A 20-hectare park is being opened by the Saigon River in HCM City.

Police in the southern province of Binh Duong have just detained Nguyen Thi Phuc for murdering her one-year-old son.

PM Pham Minh Chinh arrived in Japan to attend a commemorative summit marking half a century of the friendship and cooperation between ASEAN and Japan at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

The Ho Chi Minh City Health Department has warned of the potential risk of a COVID-19 resurgence in the city amid a wave of cases emerging in many Western-Pacific countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Guam, and Brunei.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour will offer nearly 3,000 free train and air tickets for workers in difficult circumstances for the coming Tet Lunar New Year.

The northern region is going to face the strongest cold spell of this winter at the weekend, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Asian markets built on the previous day's rally Friday as investors recalibrated their outlook for the new year after the Federal Reserve indicated it will cut interest rates.

PM Pham Minh Chinh and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi for Japan to attend the Commemorative Summit for the 50th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation.

A worker at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has had a high radiation level detected in his nose, authorities said, in a reminder of the hazards involved in cleaning up the facility crippled in 2011.

Many street pavements in Hanoi are being repaved, troubling local people.

CNN Travel of the United States has released its annual “The Top 100 City Destinations Index 2023” according to global market research company Euromonitor International, with Hanoi and HCM City among the top city destinations in the world.

President Vo Van Thuong and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted separate receptions for visiting Deputy President of South Africa Paul Mashatile in Hanoi on December 14.