VIETNAM TODAY

A Vietnamese film titled "Tro tàn rực rỡ", known as “Glorious ashes” in English, by director Bui Thac Chuyen will compete for a prize in the Competition category at the Tokyo International Film Festival.

The number of children affected by Adenovirus has sharply increased in Vietnam since August, according to the National Children’s Hospital in Hanoi.

A bomb weighing around 600 kilos has been found at a construction site in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong’s Da Huoai District.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on September 22 met representatives from the US Chamber of Commerce in New York.

More than 20 Chinese nationals are missing at sea after a boat capsized off the coast of Cambodia, an official said Friday.

The AFF Cup 2022 trophy is set to pass through five Southeast Asian cities, including Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam, ahead of the regional football tournament slated for late this year.

The State Bank of Vietnam has decided to raise operating interest rates by approximately 1% as of September 23 in an effort to keep inflation in check and maintain the macroecnomic stability.

The Vietnam Expressway Corporation is seeking the Ministry of Transport and the Committee for Management of State Capital at Enterprises for approval on the VND13.88 trillion (USD588.23 million)expansion of a southern expressway.

Vietnam has about 500,000 medical staff working in the public sector, but 9,680 left the sector between January 2021 and June 2022.

Hospitals in Hanoi are witnessing a surge in the number of children being admitted.

Nearly forty Vietnamese fishermen landed at Tan Son Nhat Airport in HCM City on Thursday afternoon after being detained by Malaysian authorities for four months.

Many Japanese enterprises have plans to expand their investment activities in Vietnam, according to Nakajima Takeo, chief representative from the Japan External Trade Organization.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc will attend the state funeral of late Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in Tokyo, Japan, from September 25 - 28, the Foreign Ministry has announced.

The Central Highlands tourism city of Dalat has been covered in the sparkling yellow colour as mimosa flowers are now in full bloom.

Vietnam’s consistent policy is to protect and promote the basic rights of people, Spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang said during the ministry’s regular press conference on September 22.

The Ministry of Health has warned about a new Covid-19 outbreak amid rising numbers of infections and deaths reported by local hospitals.

An additional 1,928 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Thursday, raising the national tally to over 11.46 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

A single woman in Hanoi’s outlying district of My Duc is in desperate need of support as she is facing lymphoma while pregnant.

The southern province of Dong Nai has asked the government to fast-track investment procedures for two VND91 trillion (USD2.45 billion) railway projects.