VIETNAM TODAY

The number of international search volume for Vietnam’s tourism in June surged by 1,125% year-on-year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

Work on HCM City’s Belt Road 3 is scheduled to begin in June 2023, around six months earlier than scheduled.

The northern region of Vietnam has continued facing rain with whirlwinds and hail warnings for some mountainous areas, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov flew to Hanoi on July 5 for a two-day visit to Vietnam to mark the 10th anniversary of the comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia.

A resident has been found dead while three others remain missing after a flash flood swept through Bao Lam District's Pac Miau Town in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang late Tuesday afternoon.

Many health workers in Vietnam have resigned due to low pay.

Global tech giant Google is in the process of considering moving orders for future phones to Vietnam in an effort to avoid risks posed by ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China, as well as China's COVID-19

The Vietnamese passport has climbed four notches to rank 90th on a list of the world’s most powerful passports, according to the latest report compiled by Henley Passport Index.

Hanoi’s police have taken a man into custody as they are investigating his allegations of “making, storing, distributing or disseminating information, documents and items against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Article 17 of the 2015

Four commercial banks signed agreements to provide loans worth a total of 4.66 trillion VND (200 million USD) to 20 companies operating in Ho Chi Minh City-based industrial parks and export processing zones.

The United Nations in Viet Nam along with the Government of Vietnam and the Australian Government on Tuesday launched the Blue Heart 2022 awareness campaign towards ending violence against children and women.

Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh talked over the phone with his counterpart from the Republic of Korea Han Duck-soo on July 5, during which the two leaders compared notes on measures to boost the bilateral relations.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Tuesday reported an additional 989 Covid-19 infections, raising the country's total tally to over 10.75 million.

Chinese authorities said Tuesday they could dip into pork reserves and ordered suppliers to slaughter more pigs in a bid to rein in the cost of the staple meat, after prices soared by almost a third year-on-year.

HCM City has found three patients infected with the two new Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants through gene sequencing results provided by the Pasteur Institute.

A representative of the Ministry of Health has warned the SARS-CoV-2 virus would resurge in Vietnam as soon as herd immunity declines.

A poor family in the central province of Ha Tinh is in desperate need of support as the wife is struggling with cancer, but financial difficulties prevent her from treatment.

The central region from Thanh Hoa to Phu Yen is sweltering under a hot weather for several days, with temperatures exceeding 38 degrees Celsius in some places, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).

Vietnam attaches importance to the Mekong – Lancang Cooperation (MLC) and wishes to make a practical contribution to the mechanism to bring real benefits to the people.