VIETNAM TODAY

It is common to see makeshift petrol stalls on Hanoi pavements as petrol stations have temporarily shut or restricted sales, citing tight supplies and loss-making operations.

Vietnam has 11 representatives listed in QS Asia University Rankings 2023 released by UK-based education organisation Quacquarelli Symonds.

Vietnamese gold demand reached an estimated 12 tonnes in the third quarter of this year, representing a year-on-year rise of 264 percent.

Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to accelerate negotiations and complete land border demarcation and border marker planting in order to build a common border of peace, stability, cooperation and development.

Fences will be removed from public parks in Hanoi as parkgoers would no longer need to buy entry tickets, according to Hanoi People's Committee Chairman Tran Sy Thanh said when talking about the city's plans to upgrade local parks.

The Japanese government will propose a new law to prevent harmfully large donations to religious groups, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday, after Shinzo Abe's assassination heightened scrutiny of the Unification Church.

An additional 442 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Tuesday, raising the national tally to over 11.50 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Aquatic exports are forecast to have hit a record of 10 billion USD in this November thanks to businesses’ flexible adaptation to changes in the global market, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.

Ho Chi Minh City welcomed 546,000 international visitors in October this year, lifting the total number of foreign arrivals to the city in the last 10 months to 2.65 million, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will pay an official visit to Vietnam on November 13-14.

The United Nations Tuesday warned of a worsening food crisis in bankrupt Sri Lanka and said the number of people needing urgent humanitarian help had doubled to 3.4 million.

Severe air pollution in the capital city is forecast to linger until at least this weekend, leaving much of the city clouded in smog.

As many as 303 Sri Lankan people on board Myanmar-flagged fishing vessel LADY R3 have been rescued by the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC Vietnam) and other foreign forces.

Police in the central province of Quang Nam's Que Son District are investigating a case in which a newborn baby girl was abandoned in a local forest.

Authorities of the southern central province of Binh Dinh are seeking the Ministry of Transport’s approval to expand and upgrade Phu Cat Airport into an international airport.

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techno Hun Sen on November 8 hosted a welcoming ceremony for Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh who arrived in Phnom Penh on the same day for an official visit to Cambodia and participation in

Globally-renowned business magazine Forbes recently released its November list detailing a list of the world’s billionaires, including seven Vietnamese billionaires.

Nine fishermen have just been rescued after four days stranded on an islet in the Spratly Archipelago.

Amid the FED’s continuous increases of interest rates to cope with inflation, the most important task for Vietnam now is to keep macro-economic stability, with monetary stability being the core, some economic experts have said.