VIETNAM TODAY

Dien Bien Airport in the northwestern province of Dien Bien will suspend operations from April 1 for an airport upgrade and expansion project.

Afghan universities reopened on Monday after a winter break, but only men returned to class with a "heartbreaking" ban by the Taliban authorities on women in higher education still in force.

Vietnam's coffee industry needs to solve many challenges to achieve sustainable development, targeting an export value of US$6 billion in 2030.

Female photographer Khanh Phan has been awarded the Grand Prize of US$15,000 in the SkyPixel Annual Photo & Video Contest for a photo themed “Floral Dress”.

The Minister of Industry and Trade has recently asked the trio of power giants to keep the supply of coal stable at all costs in 2023 as the mineral is essential for power generation and fertiliser production.

Many people in Hanoi queue up overnight in front of overloaded local car registration centres.

Eleven people were killed and dozens were missing after torrential rains and landslides battered one of Indonesia's outermost islands on Monday, the country's disaster agency said.

Malta-flagged cruise ship Mein Schiff 5 docked in Quang Ninh province on March 6, carrying nearly 2,000 European visitors to the famous tourist destination in the north of Vietnam.

Lao Airlines, the national flag carrier of Laos, is scheduled to resume regular commercial flights from Vientiane capital to Da Nang (central Vietnam) from March 30 following a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Japan's main opposition party submitted a bill to parliament Monday to approve same-sex marriage, hoping to pile pressure on the government before the country hosts the G7 summit in May.

A bomb weighing 150 kilos with its detonator intact has just been found at a construction site in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh.

Over the 30 years since performing its first kidney transplant from a living donor, Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has consistently developed expertise in organ transplantation, helping prolong and improve the lives of thousands of people.

A mother and two of her children died after their motorbike collided with a truck in the central province of Nghe An on Monday morning.

The Airports Corporation of Việt Nam (ACV) has proposed the Ministry of Transport postpone the completion of Long Thành Airport’s passenger terminal to 2026 instead of 2025.

Japan's coastguard said Monday it was searching for seven people missing after their boat capsized and was spotted in waters off the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku islets, which are also claimed by China.

US veteran Peter Mathews and his spouse arrived in the central province of Ha Tinh on Sunday to return a diary of a dead Vietnamese soldier he found over five decades ago to his family.

Commercial banks will hold annual general meetings of shareholders next quarter to map out production and business plans for 2023.

The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup trophy touched down in Vietnam as part of a promotional tour being held in the buildup to the tournament which is scheduled to be held in Australia and New Zealand later this year.