VIETNAM TODAY

Authorities in Hanoi's Thanh Xuan District have just put up nearly 50 bollards on the pavement of Le Trong Tan Street to prevent illegal parking.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 20 stressed that promoting a more substantive and effective global partnership, international solidarity, and multilateral cooperation is key to solving today's complex challenges.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met US President Joe Biden and President of the European Council (EC) Charles Michel on May 20, within the framework of the ongoing expanded summit of the G7.

More than 1,000 women in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have attended a ceremony to launch the Action Month for the Environment, as part of activities for World Environment Day (June 5).

Businesses applauded the Government’s decree on tax payment deadline extension which helps them to have capital for maintaining production and ensuring workers’ benefits.

The G7 will agree Saturday on a "common set of tools" to combat economic "coercion" and limit the risk that high-tech exports to China undermine national security, a top US official said.

HCM City will build nine pedestrian bridges to connect the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro line.

The Mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh will be shut from June 12 for annual renovation according to the mausoleum management board.

Dantri/DTiNews has started construction of a dormitory for pupils in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

The VAT cut bill introduced on May 6 has sparked heated debate in the National Assembly.

The death toll from Cyclone Mocha has reached 145 in Myanmar, its junta said Friday, with most of the dead from the persecuted Rohingya minority.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 19 attended a ceremony to announce the first direct air route between Vietnam's capital city of Hanoi and Japan's Hiroshima prefecture.

The nation will be one of 11 host countries for the group stage of the AFC U23 Asian Cup 2024 qualifiers, as announced by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on May 19.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a meeting talks with the Republic of Korea (RoK)'s President Yoon Suk-yeol on May 19 in Hiroshima, Japan, as part of his trip to attend the expanded Summit of the Group of Seven (G7).

Nguyen Phuong Nhi has been selected as the Vietnamese representative at Miss International 2023, an international beauty contest which is scheduled to take place in Japan this October.

Around 30 locations in the centre of Hanoi face a high risk of being flooded when it rains heavily, said Phan Hoai Minh, general director the Hanoi Sewerage and Drainage Company.

The Vietnam-Wales education cooperation workshop took place in Cardiff, Wales, gathering representatives of the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), the Global Wales programme, the British Council, eight universities from Wales, and 30 from Vietnam.

China spent more than US$397 million buying one million tonnes of cassava in the first four months of the year, thereby becoming the largest importer of Vietnamese cassava, according to statistics released by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Water at as many as 11 among 47 hydropower reservoirs nationwide have reached or are nearing dead levels due to the prolonged hot weather.