VIETNAM TODAY

Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has approved a plan to build Terminal 2 in Cat Bi Airport in the northern city of Haiphong.

Vietnam will send a contingent of 122 athletes to the 11th ASEAN Para Games in Surakarta, Indonesia, later this month.

Huge crowds of robed Muslim pilgrims prayed on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat on Friday, the climax of the biggest hajj pilgrimage since the pandemic forced drastic cuts in numbers for two years.

The nation’s export value to the EU grew further in the first six months of this year, resulting in a trade surplus of US$15.5 billion, a rise of nearly 39%, thanks to the bilateral free trade agreement in place

PM Pham Minh Chinh cabled a message of condolences to President of the Liberal Democratic Party and PM of Japan Kishida Fumio over the death of former PM Abe Shinzo on July 8.

Consecutive petroleum price hikes so far this year have further burdened travel firms in Vietnam which are trying to gradually recover after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hanoi People’s Council have approved the relocation of nine state-owned businesses from the city centre in the next five years.

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated on Friday by a gunman who opened fire at close range as the hugely influential politician delivered a campaign speech.

Vietnam confirmed an additional 800 Covid-19 infections on Friday, down 113 cases from the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health.

The voluntary blood donation programme entitled Red Journey 2022 and the Ho Chi Minh City voluntary blood donation festival were launched in Ho Chi Minh City on July 7, attracting the participation of 4,000 people.

After two years of postponement due to COVID-19, the Vietnam Summer Camp 2022 for young overseas Vietnamese will be held from July 19 to August 3 by the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The central city of Danang will develop a market network that focuses on serving tourists by 2030.

Grab users will have to pay an additional VND 3,000-5,000 surcharge if they order the services with bikes during hot weather.

A poor ethnic minority couple in Son La Province have received over VND 300 million (USD13,043) from the public to cover medical treatment for their small daughter who is suffering from retinoblastoma.

The index of industrial production in the first half of this year surged 8.48% over the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office.

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been shot, a government spokesman said Friday, as local media reported the ex-premier was showing no vital signs.

Health officials in Ho Chi Minh City are considering reopening field hospitals to receive and treat coronavirus patients following the emergence of new subvariants of the Omicron variant – BA.4 and BA.5 – in the city.

From laser beams and wooden satellites to galactic tow-truck services, start-ups in Japan are trying to imagine ways to deal with a growing environmental problem: space debris.

The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) has announced the top 10 largest securities companies this year.