VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s economic growth this year is projected at nearly 8%, up 1.5-2% from the initial target, said PM Pham Minh Chinh while delivering the 2022 socio-economic performance report and 2023 socio-economic development plan.

Vung Tau City in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau has faced serious flooding due to torrential rains over the past two days.

Vietnamese citizens in Ukraine are advised to evacuate from major cities as Russia intensifies strikes in the escalating conflict, according to the foreign ministry.

Vietnam’s GDP grew by 13.7% year-on-year in the third quarter of this year and 8.9% over the first three quarter, according to a report released by the World Bank on October 20.

Six education programmes of Lac Hong University in the southern province of Dong Nai have been certified as meeting quality accreditation and recognition standards by the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance.

ASEAN and China desire to soon adopt a Code of Conduct in the East Sea that is substantively effective and consistent with international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The HCM City Department of Health has warned local medical facilities to implement the Red Alert Protocol (RAP) amid increasing dengue fever cases.

An additional 541 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Thursday, raising the national tally to over 11.49 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Helicopter tours have just been suspended in HCM City after the pilot period with just five trips as the organisers were unable to arrange a heliport.

Dantri/DTiNews readers donated VND126.2 million ( USD5,000) for a nine-year-old girl in the central province of Ha Tinh who is being taken care of by her ailing paternal grandmother after her father’s death.

Up to 20 international airlines are actively seeking to open air services to Phu Quoc island in the southern province of Kien Giang.

Equities tumbled Thursday, tracking a sell-off on Wall Street, while the dollar regained its strength as surging inflation, interest rate hikes and recession fears returned to the fore.

Railway companies are planning to operate 356 trains with 176,046 seats to serve passengers during the upcoming Lunar New Year Festival (Tet), the longest and most important traditional festival in Vietnam.

A poor family that suffered a serious traffic accident in the southern province of Dong Nai is calling for help.

The confidence of European enterprises in Vietnam’s investment and business environment slipped further to 62.2 percentage points in the wake of a worsening global economic downturn but still remains strong.

A woman returning to Vietnam from Dubai has been diagnosed with the monkeypox virus, the second case recorded in the country so far, the HCM City Department of Health announced on October 20.

The 15th National Assembly (NA) convened its 4th session in Hanoi on October 20.

Flights at Dong Hoi Airport in the central province of Quang Binh have been suspended since Thursday morning due to heavy rains triggered by Storm Nesat.

A national conference was held on October 19 to deploy the Prime Minister’s decree on intensifying the implementation of a project on including human rights in the national education system.