VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam and Russia are working hard on a project to erect a statue in honour of President Ho Chi Minh in Saint Petersburg, intending to unveil the statue in 2023.

The Drug Crime Investigation Police Department (C04) has broken up a transnational drug trafficking ring from Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City, seizing 115 kg of synthetic drugs.

An additional 774 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Thursday, raising the national tally to over 10.73 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Vietnam, like many other East and Southeast Asian countries, is further climbing up the global value chain thanks to the positive effect of the utilisation of foreign direct investment, according to the latest report by Hinrich Foundation.

Two streets in the central city of Danang officially went cashless on Thursday morning.

Local authorities in the central province of Ha Tinh's Ky Anh Town are investigating the mass deaths of 25 hectares of coastal protective forest in the area.

Hanoi eyes to welcome over 30 million visitors, including 7 foreigners, by 2025, according to the municipal Party Committee’ draft conclusion on tourism development for 2016-2020 and following years.

Vietnamese researcher Dr. Le Viet Ha and his associates have won 2022 Best Paper Awards by Micromachines, a peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of small structures, devices and systems.

People in a residential area in Hanoi are suffering from serious inundation after recent torrential rains and hydropower plant water discharges.

Apple iPhone assembler Pegatron Corp has recently unveiled its expansion plan in other countries including Vietnam due to COVID-19 restrictions in China, according to Reuters.

“Vietnam has been a good example on how to move from vision to action in strengthening communities with climate resilient, economic growth and decrease of poverty," said Ms Reehana R. Raza in her first official visit to Vietnam

Vietnam’s domestic aviation market is recovering at the fastest pace in the world with a growth rate of 123 percent compared to the same period of 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

Australia's new centre-left government submitted new, more ambitious, emissions targets to the United Nations Thursday, seeking to end a decade of footdragging on climate change.

The first phase of the Public Bike Sharing System – an innovative public bike-sharing scheme by the International Co-operation Agency of Germany, tech firm Vietsoftpro and the Thua Thien-Hue People's Committee – has been launched in Hue city.

International industry experts and businesses in the energy sector stressed the importance of cross-border cooperation and technology transfer for the region’s efforts to shift away from coal power at an online webinar on June 15.

The US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have just announced a three-year partnership to support Vietnam in strengthening systems to better protect

A woman in HCM City has saved hundreds of dogs and cats from slaughterhouses and given them a new home.

An additional 866 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Wednesday, raising the national tally to over 10.73 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Results of dioxin treatment technology tested at Bien Hoa airport, the most contaminated spot in Vietnam, were released at a seminar in Hanoi on June 15.