VIETNAM TODAY

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.

Four rare monkeys have been handed over to Vu Quang National Park in the central province of Ha Tinh.

Cambodian and Vietnamese authorities completed procedures to repatriate 92 Vietnamese citizens on Wednesday at Moc Bai International Border Gate in the southern province of Tay Ninh.

A 31-year-old man in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang has been arrested for raping a tour guide at a local bungalow.

Universities nationwide are implementing more than 400 joint training programmes with foreign countries for the undergraduate level, as per statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training’s Department of International Cooperation.

Asian markets extended a painful Wall Street sell-off Thursday after the Federal Reserve unveiled a third straight jumbo interest rate hike, said more were in the pipeline, and warned the battle against inflation was straining the US economy.

The Ho Chi Minh City Ballet, Symphony Orchestra and Opera in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in HCM City will stage a special performance entirely devoted to Italian music on September 23.

HCM City’s Department of Construction has set up a task force to help quicken the renovation and rebuilding of old apartment buildings.

Four-fifths of developing Asian economies place toward the bottom in a global ranking of digital environments and support systems for entrepreneurs, according to a new index developed by the Asian Development Bank.

Vietnam beat Singapore 4 - 0 in a match of the international friendly football tournament in Ho Chi Minh City on September 21 evening.

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh will lead a Vietnamese delegation to the high-level general debate of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the United States, from September 21-25.

The Vietnam Business Integrity Index (VBII), the first of its kind in the country to assess enterprises in this regard, was launched on September 21.

An additional 2,287 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Wednesday, raising the national tally to over 11.46 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Fishing boats in many southern provinces are being left idle as local fishermen have been unable to buy diesel.

A four-year-old boy has become the youngest paraglider to participate in the ongoing paragliding festival in Yen Bai Province.

The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang has announced the cancellation of building a pair of carp-dragon statues by a local river following public controversy.

The Asian Development Bank has maintained its favourable economic outlook for Vietnam as it forecasts gross domestic product to expand 6.5 percent in 2022 and 6.7 percent in 2023.

Hanoi will need about 21 trillion VND (887.27 million USD at current exchange rate) in the coming years to replace all petrol- and diesel-powered public buses with electric alternatives.