VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s rare earth mining industry will likely experience rapid growth in the near future, according to industry experts, as demand has been on the rise steadily in the last few decades.

The southern province of Binh Thuan will hold the first Street Culture Festival on September 2.

Miss World beauty contest organisers say they are considering holding the pageant in the disputed territory of Indian-administered Kashmir as part of a month-long series of events across India.

Vietnam’s consumer price index during first eight-month of this year rose by 3.10 percent on-year, according to the General Statistics Office.

Storm Saola has been forecasted to enter the East Sea in some days to come, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his visiting Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong visited students at the Vietnam National University-Hanoi on Tuesday morning.

The scientific and educational organisation “Rencontres du Vietnam” (Meeting Vietnam) has presented 175 Vallet scholarships worth 2.59 billion VND ( 107,135 USD) in total to outstanding Vietnamese students.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his visiting Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong on August 29 attended a conference in Hanoi to discuss measures aimed at speeding up Vietnam-Singapore joint projects.

US President Joe Biden is scheduled to pay a visit to Vietnam from September 10-11 at the invitation of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

The pilot run of HCM City’s Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro line was implemented this morning, August 29.

Two women have been found dead after a fire broke out in their rented room on Mac Thien Tich Street, in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 on Tuesday morning.

Shares of Vietnam’s leading electric vehicle maker VinFast, owned by Billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong amounted to US$93/share at a time, raising the market value to more than US$191 billion on the Nasdaq trading session on August 28.

Asian markets extended a global rally Tuesday ahead of US data this week that could be key to the Federal Reserve's decision-making on interest rates.

Chairman of the People's Committee of Binh Duong province Vo Van Minh on August 28 signed a decision approving the establishment of Vietnam-Singapore Innovation Centre in the southern locality.

A 250-kilo bomb measuring 1.60 metres in length has just been found at a road construction site in the central province of Ha Tinh.

The organisation of live-fire drills in the waters around Ba Binh island belonging to Vietnam's Truong Sa (Spratly) is a serious infringement upon Vietnam's territorial sovereignty over Truong Sa.

Although the Mid-Autumn Festival is still over a month away, Hang Ma Street in Hanoi has already been transformed with various decorative items for the festival.

Vietnam received approximately 7.8 million foreign arrivals in the first eight months of this year, meeting 97.5% of the target set for the whole year, according to the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT).

As many as 53 communes in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang are at risk of flash floods and landslides.