VIETNAM TODAY

As many as 46 houses have been damaged when a whirlwind hit the southern province of Vinh Long late Thursday afternoon.

Head of the Dalat City Urban Management Department, Nguyen Duong Trung Huu, has just been suspended as local authorities started investigations into the deadly landslide that killed two people and injured five others in Hoang Hoa Tam Street.

The Australian Government has just announced that they will extend their investment in the development of an innovation ecosystem in Vietnam through the Aus4Innovation programme to 2028, making it a 10-year commitment with a total budget of AUD 33.5 million.

Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of about 12.25 billion USD in the first half of this year, according to data released by the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO) on June 29.

Cai Rang Floating Market in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has become increasingly deserted.

Australia on Friday said it was axing a billion-dollar plan to develop a series of space satellites, as it tries to cut costs amid an economic slowdown and cost-of-living crisis.

A family in the central province of Thua-Thien Hue has handed over two rare monkeys to local authorities to be released into the wild.

Nepal's LGBTQ community welcomed on Thursday a Supreme Court interim decision to allow all citizens to register their marriages, including same-sex and transgender couples.

Rubbish has covered Doc Let Beach in the southern central province of Khanh Hoa, leading to the severe pollution.

Authorities in HCM City will run a promotion programme from now until September 15 with attractive discounts to increase spending.

Fast-growing greenhouse development, rapid urbanisation, underinvested drainage and abnormal weather have been cited as the main reasons for the heavy flooding in the Central Highlands tourist city Dalat.

Canada-based magazine The Travel has revealed a list of the 10 cheapest countries to work remotely across the world, with Vietnam featured in the list.

Two sisters in the central province of Nghe An have received donations of VND450.47 million (USD19.14) following a serious traffic accident.

The USAID in partnership with UNICEF, has delivered 590 vaccine refrigerators to the Vietnamese Ministry of Health as part of support to further improve cold chain systems for routine immunisation and COVID-19 vaccination campaigns.

Five Vietnamese universities keep their places in the QS World University Rankings 2024 recently released by the UK-based education organisation Quacquarelli Symonds.

As many as 13 households located by Thanh Da Canal in HCM City’s Binh Thanh District have been severely hit by erosion.

The Vietnamese economy is continuing to encounter difficulties as it only expanded by estimated 3.72% in the first half of the year, according to statistics released by the General Statistics Office (GSO).

A fishing boat was found transporting around 60,000 litres of diesel off the coast of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

State President Vo Van Thuong attended a farewell ceremony held for Vietnamese peacekeepers who will depart for UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and Abyei.