VIETNAM TODAY

Around 650,000 international passengers came to Vietnam by air in May, up 45.87 percent compared to April.

A 227-kilo bomb left from the American War has been discovered by a stream in the central province of Quang Tri.

The Hue Festival 2022 is scheduled to take place from June 25-30 with eight major programmes and many sidelines events, the People’s Committee of Thua Thien-Hue province unveiled at a press conference on June 20.

The Hanoi Metro Company reported a loss of VNĐ63.7 billion (US$2.75 million) in 2021 after the Cát Linh- Hà Đông Urban Railway was officially opened on November 6 last year.

Vietnamese representative Phung Truong Tran Dai was awarded the Best Talent sub-title on June 20 at the Miss International Queen 2022 currently taking place in Thailand.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will increase its interference in the foreign currency market and stay ready to pump money to the market more frequently, according to Vice Director of the SBV’s Monetary Policy Department Pham Chi Quang.

The heaviest rainfall in decades has triggered floods and landslides in southern China, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, state media reported.

Vietnam and Japan on June 20 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) relating to the technical intern training programme for Vietnamese interns in Japan.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has approved a list of 197 projects worth 43 billion USD calling for investments in 2022, as proposed by the municipal Department of Planning and Investment.

Samsung Display Vietnam (SDV) and the Vietnamese Students Association (VSAK) in the Republic of Korea (RoK) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to arrange a workshop specifically focusing on personnel recruitment.

Six children in a poor family in the central province of Quang Binh are in desperate need of support after their parents died in an accident.

The southern province of Kien Giang has established a special group to fight against violations in land management and use.

Japan is the home of judo but a brutal win-at-all-costs mentality, corporal punishment and pressure to lose weight are driving large numbers of children to quit, raising fears for the sport's future in its traditional powerhouse.

Up to 51,000 batches of Covid-19 vaccines in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien are at risk of expiry due to the sluggish pace of vaccination.

An additional 521 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Monday, raising the national tally to over 10.73 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Sick of swiping and tired of Tinder? Old-fashioned love letters may be the answer, says one Japanese city whose unusual matchmaking scheme has been a surprising success.

Soldiers of Vietnam’s Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 4 have recently provided training and updated knowledge on the epidemiological situation, diagnosis, treatment of prevention of monkeypox for Level-1 field hospitals in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), according

Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-Covid strategy.

Local authorities in Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Dong Nai provinces are preparing to carry out an expressway route linking Bien Hoa and Vung Tau cities.