VIETNAM TODAY

A Vietnam Airlines flight made an urgent landing in Azerbaijan to save a German passenger.

An additional 702 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Friday, raising the national tally to over 11.48 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Equity markets fell and the dollar held gains as the optimism that coursed through trading floors earlier this week gave way to nervousness ahead of a massive US jobs report later Friday that could determine Federal Reserve rate hike plans.

As many as 103,026 Vietnamese were sent to work abroad in the first nine months of this year, overshooting the annual target by 14.47 percent.

Vietnamese sites Bach Ma National Park and Con Dao National Park have been put forward by ASEAN environmental officials to become the 54th and 55th ASEAN Heritage Parks.

At least 19 people have been confirmed dead after an avalanche struck climbers in the Indian Himalayas, authorities said Friday, with bad weather hampering the fourth day of search and rescue efforts.

HCM City Department of Industry and Trade held a meeting on Thursday with local petrol traders following the temporary closure of many petrol stations in the city.

Careful consideration must be given to the planning and development of airports to ensure feasibility, experts have warned, as localities across the country propose the airports in their provinces.

Vietnam was hit by 988 cyberattacks in the first nine months of this year, according to the National Cyber Security Centre under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Hanoi is planning to develop satellite urban areas as part of an effort to widen local space and ease pressure from overcrowding in the inner city.

Vietnamese average monthly incomes were estimated at VND6.7 million (USD281.51) in the third quarter of this year, up 30.1 percent on-year.

Between six and nine million Pakistanis are set to be dragged into poverty as a result of cataclysmic monsoon flooding linked to climate change, the World Bank said on Thursday.

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan will attend the 6th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA 6) at the invitation of President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Kemelevich Tokayev.

Travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler of the United States has listed Phu Quoc in the southern province of Kien Giang among the best 10 tourist islands in Asia, as voted for by its readers.

Viet Capital Bank has unveiled a certificate of deposit for individual and institutional customers with an interest rate of up to 8.4% depending on the tenor.

An additional 1,130 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Thursday, raising the national tally to over 11.48 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Thousands of households in the central province of Nghe An are still facing flooding caused by heavy rains after the recent Storm Noru.

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck the northern mountainous province of Son La’s Moc Chau District early this morning.

A project aimed at promoting sustainable sand management in the Mekong Delta, implemented by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Vietnam, has helped to mitigate the negative impact of climate change on the region.