VIETNAM TODAY

The Spanish Embassy in Vietnam on August 1 announced that it cannot accept Schengen visa applications from Vietnamese citizens using new-style passports until further notice.

The potential of renewable energy sources is one of the keys to Vietnam’s energy transformation towards carbon neutrality, but barriers stemming from the unresponsive transmission network and pricing mechanism is wasting the capacity of billions of kWh of electricity.

The Czech Republic has yet to officially recognise new Vietnamese passports after stating that they fail to meet International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) specifications, according to the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Hanoi.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Tuesday reported an additional 2,017 Covid-19 infections, an increase of nearly 700 cases compared to yesterday's figure.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed the pork supply for the coming Lunar New Year or Tet.

The southern province of Binh Duong has recorded two BA.5 sub-strain Omicron coronavirus variant infections.

China's population will begin to shrink by 2025, officials have said, as family sizes grow smaller and citizens age.

The Vietnamese national men’s football team will have extra opportunities to progress to the finals of the 2026 World Cup after the world’s governing football body FIFA adopted a new qualification format for the global tournament.

Countries must step up cooperation and dialogue, and strengthen mutual understanding for a common cause of eliminating nuclear threat, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ha Kim Ngoc told a New York conference.

The melodic songs from families of endangered monkeys ring out over the jungle near Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex -- a sign of ecological rejuvenation decades after hunting decimated wildlife at the site.

A rare wild monkey has attacked two local people in a residential area in the central province of Quang Tri's Hai Lang District.

A VND768 billion (USD33.39 million) waste treatment project in Hanoi has been left idle for over the past decade.

The United States, through US Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a five-year, $14.2 million partnership with three leading Vietnamese universities.

The Ministry of Health has held an online training session to guide medical facilities nationwide on the diagnosis and treatment of monkeypox in the context that the number of the cases worldwide is topping 22,000.

Three firefighters died on Monday afternoon while tackling a blaze at a karaoke bar in Hanoi's Cau Giay District.

A six-year-old boy in the northern province of Nam Dinh who was paralysed due to an intramedullary tumour is in dire need of community support.

Many parks in Hanoi are being left idle despite the city is facing a public space shortage.

The US travel magazine Travel & Leisure has named the northern province of Ninh Binh among the top 12 coolest movie filming locations to visit throughout all of Asia.

Zalo – the most popular over-the-top messaging app in Vietnam, started to charge users from August 1 and cut a number of features of its free version.