VIETNAM TODAY

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with 100 outstanding voluntary blood donors nationwide on July 29, who are in Hanoi for a special programme honouring their good deeds.

Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of about 15.23 billion USD in the first seven months of this year, an increase of 1.34% over the same period last year, according to data released by the General Statistics Office of Vietnam

The Federation of Thai Industry (FTI) has reduced its car production target for 2023 to 1.9 million units from 1.95 million units set at the beginning of the year, due to a drop in domestic vehicle sales and an

Air tickets for flights scheduled to depart for the September 2 National Day Holiday have sharply increased.

The Coc San Water Plant which supplies water for half of residents in the northern city of Lao Cai had to suspend operations from Friday afternoon after rising floods contaminated water in the Ngoi Dum Spring.

Bangladesh remains a major hub for the poaching of endangered tigers despite government claims of a successful crackdown on pirate groups involved in the trade, according to research published Friday.

Vietnam served around 6.6 million foreign tourists in the first seven months of this year, meeting 83 percent of its annual target, the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism reported.

Some five fishing boats caught fire while anchored at a port in the northern central province of Nghe An on Friday night.

Vietnam attracted nearly US$16.24 billion in foreign direct investment during the past seven months of the year, as reported by the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

President Vo Van Thuong, his spouse and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam visited the Vatican on July 27 (local time) at the invitation of Pope Francis.

Authorities in the southern province of Binh Thuan are still trying to search for a tourist who went missing while swimming at a local beach on Wednesday.

Ha Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh has witnessed a strong recovery of its coral reefs following the bay management board’s protection efforts.

An overloaded passenger boat that capsized in a Philippine lake has killed 26 people, the coast guard said Friday, as the search continued for those still missing.

Thanh Hoa’s Enterprise Association Chairman Nguyen Van Thanh has called for flights from the northern central province of Thanh Hoa’s Tho Xuan Airport to southern localities to be reopened.

A whale weighing 2.50 tonnes has been found dead on a beach in the northern central province of Nghe An.

Dark sewage has been pouring into the renowned Mỹ Khê beach in Sơn Trà District, Đà Nẵng, for several days, as a result of heavy rains on July 15, causing environmental pollution.

The number of tourists to Hanoi in the first seven months of this year is expected to reach 14.7 million, an increase of 38.7% compared to the same period in 2022, the municipal Department of Tourism reported.

The north is forecast to see rains from Friday, ending the severe heat wave that hit the region over the past week.

Vietnam and Italy have issued a Joint statement on strengthening their bilateral strategic partnership on the occasion of President Vo Van Thuong’s State visit to Italy.