VIETNAM TODAY

Social media sites could be blocked or fined in Singapore if they fail to stop users in the tightly-controlled country from accessing "harmful" content under a proposed law introduced in parliament on Monday.

Vietnam’s gross domestic product in ASEAN is expected to expand considerably over the next five years, with its rankings rising from sixth this year to third by 2027, according to the latest forecast made by the IMF.

A monkey has attacked nearly 10 children on Phu Quy Island in the southern central province of Binh Thuan after escaping from its cage.

Dantri/DTiNews readers have donated VND633.48 million (USD26,596) for a seriously-burnt little boy in the northern province of Bac Giang.

A woman returning to Vietnam from Dubai has been infected with the monkeypox virus, the first case recorded in the country so far, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health announced on October 3.

An additional 796 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Monday, raising the national tally to over 11.48 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Real estate sector attracted 3.5 billion USD in foreign direct investment the first nine months of this year, coming second among sectors in terms of FDI attraction.

The US Mission in Vietnam is calling for nominations of outstanding candidates to participate in the AY 2023-2024 Fulbright US - ASEAN Visiting Scholar Program.

Indonesia's government called on police Monday to identify and punish those responsible for a stadium stampede that left 125 people dead, as anger mounted over one of the deadliest disasters in the history of football.

The Vietnam-Canada Business Association has made its debut in Ottawa, meeting the Vietnamese and Canadian business communities’ demand to meet, connect with and support each other during trade and investment activities.

Petroleum prices have fallen to a one-year low following a decision jointly released by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Trade on Monday.

HCM City welcomed the luxury cruise ship Le Laperouse of Ponant (France), which brings 100 tourists with French, American, and German nationalities to HCMC after its last visit to the city in mid-November, 2019.

Some localities in Vietnam’s central region are forecasted to continue experiencing heavy rain until Wednesday.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has just announced the first reported case of monkeypox in Vietnam.

The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on an education centre in the Afghan capital last week has risen to at least 43, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said on Monday.

Although local people in Hanoi's Xa Cau Village have earned better incomes from collecting and recycling plastic waste, they suffer from serious environmental pollution.

Breast cancer discoveries and mRNA vaccines are seen as possible winners when the Nobel Medicine Prize kicks off a week of winner announcements on Monday, with this year's awards held under the shadow of war in Europe.

The sixth plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee opened in Hanoi on October 3 under the chair of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

Thanks to the development of a network of industrial parks and clusters as well as efforts to accompany investors, Hanoi has remained one of the bright spots of the country in foreign direct investment attraction.