VIETNAM TODAY

The Vietnamese Embassy in France has said it is keeping a close watch on a case in which some people believed to be Vietnamese citizens were found on a refrigerated truck in Rhone of Lyon city.

Hanoi and HCM City continue to attract investors thanks to the competitive rental costs for offices and high-end retail spaces, accompanied by a high occupancy rate in the region, according to Savills Vietnam.

Hanoi has been forecasted to see sunny weather in the next ten days with the highest temperature of 35 degrees centigrade.

Dozens of households in the central province of Nghe An have still been isolated as local roads have been badly damaged due to the recent floods.

At least three people have been killed and three others seriously injured after two motorbikes crashed in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on Friday evening.

At least four people have been killed and five others seriously injured after two passenger buses collided in the southern province of Dong Nai early Saturday morning.

Vietravel Airlines officially conducted its first flight on September 29 connecting Nha Trang in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa to Muan in the Republic of Korea.

Vietnam’s trade surplus in September was estimated at 2.29 billion USD, bring the figure in the first nine months of the year to 21.68 billion USD, the General Statistics Office announced on September 29.

Around 8.9 million foreign tourists travelled to Vietnam in the first nine months of this year, a 4.7-fold increase compared to the figure of the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office.

At least 40 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Friday by a suicide bomber targeting a procession marking the birthday of Islam's Prophet Mohammed, officials said.

A female passenger has received her bag containing EUR 8,000 which she left on a luggage trolley at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi.

Police and related agencies in HCM City have burned over 1.60 tonnes of drugs confiscated from 147 criminal cases.

Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper has presented mooncakes and scholarships to disadvantaged students in Thai Nguyen Province on the Full Moon Festival.

Vietnam’s gross domestic product in the third quarter of the year grew by 5.33% on-year while the consumer price index in September soared by 1.08% compared to the previous month, according to the General Statistics Office.

Authorities in the southern province of Vinh Long are seeking measures to catch a wild monkey which attacked several local residents.

Thousands of people in Vietnam queued through Thursday night to receive the first batch of iPhone 15s that arrived in the country.

At least six people have died and two others missing in the floods which have ravaged many northern and central localities over the past few days.

Japan will begin releasing a second batch of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from next week, its operator has said, an exercise that angered China and others when it began in August.

Durian traders in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak are facing big losses over the past two weeks as prices have sharply fallen.