VIETNAM TODAY

Ho Chi Minh City will host the Asia & Oceania Gala Ceremony of the World Travel Awards 2022 on September 7, launched to acknowledge excellence in the travel and tourism industry.

The organising board of Miss Universe Vietnam has just been fined VND70 million (USD3,043) for allowing a judge to wear a revealing ao dai in the final night of Miss Universe Vietnam 2022 on June 25.

Authorities of Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem District have decided to transform a local French-period villa and two other land plots into a primary school.

Thai retail conglomerate Central Group is in the process of planning to aggressively expand its efforts in the Vietnamese market in the hope of taping into an expected jump in demand when the COVID-19 pandemic ends, according to Nikkei

The 10th edition of a networking event marking its decade, hosted by the Association of Vietnamese Professionals and Students in the US, wrapped up on August 21.

The UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement has given a big push to Vietnamese exports, but insiders say firms still have much to do to make the most of the deal.

A man and a woman have just been arrested for trafficking Vietnamese workers to Cambodia following an investigation into the recent escape of 42 workers from a Cambodian casino.

Three children drowned and another was in critical condition after they went swimming in a pond in Vinh Phuc Province on Monday afternoon.

A 93-year-old man in the northern province of Thai Nguyen is taking care of her 67-year-old daughter who has been paralysed for four years.

As many as 2,921 works in Hanoi have not yet been approved for fire safety standards despite being put into operation already.

The Ministry of Health has issued temporary guidelines for monitoring and preventing monkeypox amid complicated developments of the disease.

National petrol prices were left unchanged in the latest periodic review made by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance at 3 p.m. on August 22.

A low tropical depression in the East Sea has strengthened into a storm, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

An additional 2,179 more Covid-19 infections were confirmed in Vietnam on Monday, raising the country's total tally to over 11 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Vietnamese female football striker Huynh Nhu has just arrived in Portugal to sign a two-year contract with Länk FC.

Seven students from Hanoi have earned prizes at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, according to the Hanoi's Department of Education and Training on Monday.

More than 1 million students in Ho Chi Minh City returned to school to prepare for the new school year on the morning of August 22.

The central city of Danang is calling for investors interested in the construction of phase two of the VND2.24 trillion (USD97.65 million) Hoa Cam Industrial Park Project.

A film crew from the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) are taking part in a fact-finding tour to the central province of Thua Thien-Hue as they prepare to make films relating to the tourism promotion of the Vietnamese locality.