VIETNAM TODAY

After more than three years, a project on placing artificial reefs to protect and enrich fishery resources in combination with tourism development off the southernmost province of Ca Mau has recorded initial encouraging results.

The northern port city of Hai Phong on May 13 launched a new tourism product named “Hai Phong – Free Walking” as an effort to fulfil its set target of welcoming 7.5 million visitors this year.

The Military Hospital 175 in Ho Chi Minh City has been achieved the level “Diamond Status” at the World Stroke Organisation Angels Awards in recognition of improvements in its stroke care quality.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the UK Nguyen Hoang Long has made a working trip to Belfast city in Northern Ireland to foster bilateral connections and cooperation, especially in education and trade.

Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from the coasts of Myanmar and Bangladesh on Saturday as the region's most powerful cyclone for over a decade churned across the Bay of Bengal.

El Nino is set to return in late May or early June, with the weather pattern likely to last till early 2024, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting of Vietnam.

Construction on the first phase of the Bien Hoa-Vung Tau Highway has been scheduled to begin on June 18.

Many households in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai have cut down cashew trees because of falling prices.

Vietnam lost 2-3 to Indonesia in the men’s football semifinal of SEA Games 32 on May 13 despite playing with more men in the second half.

The northern and central regions of Vietnam would experience a hot front next week, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

A woman and her three grandsons have died in a fire that broke out at their home in Hanoi's Ha Dong District on Saturday morning.

Members of the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association sold 22,409 automobiles of all kinds in April, a month-on-month drop of 25%.

The southern province of Dong Nai has set a target to build 10,000 low-cost houses by 2025, said a local official.

Taiwanese shoemaker Pou Yuen Vietnam Co. Ltd., the largest employer in HCM City, has announced plans to lay off nearly 6,000 more workers as they have continued to face declining orders.

Another theft has occurred at the construction site of HCM City’s Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro route.

Europe Village, the largest European cultural event, was launched again in Hanoi on Friday evening after a five-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Two fishermen have died of asphyxiation after entering a fish storage cabin in a vessel off the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

The eighth France-Vietnam Job Fair 2023 is scheduled to take place in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi on May 13 and May 20, respectively.

A high interest rate environment is a great risk to the competitiveness of Vietnamese enterprises, according to economists.