The newly-rebranded Ho Chi Minh City Public Security (CA TP.HCM) football club announced on Wednesday their lineup for the 2025–26 V.League 1 season, featuring high-profile coach Le Huynh Duc and national star Nguyen Tien Linh alongside a mix of retained talent and new international signings.

In the early hours of Wednesday, foamy mud erupted at lot 89A, Nui Truc Alley in Hanoi, following a heavy rain. This location had previously experienced similar incidents when the tunnel boring machine (TBM) of the Nhon-Hanoi Station metro project passed through.

Police in Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam have uncovered a business operated by Chinese nationals selling health supplements of unknown origin, with dozens of foreign and local staff involved, authorities confirmed on Tuesday.

Vietnam's 22-member team achieved a remarkable feat at the 2025 Asia International Mathematical Olympiad (AIMO) finals, held from August 3 to 5 in Japan, with all participants bringing home awards.

Vietnam has surpassed Thailand to become the world's second-largest rice exporter in the first half of 2025, Thai PBS reported on Sunday, citing data from the Thai Rice Exporters Association.

Vietnam and Egypt have elevated their bilateral relationship to a comprehensive partnership during Vietnamese State President Luong Cuong’s three-day state visit to the North African country.

TOKYO -- The temperature in the eastern Japan city of Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, soared to 41.8 degrees Celsius at 2:26 pm on Tuesday, marking a record high for Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

To control African swine fever (ASF), Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has urged provinces and cities to strictly follow regulations, promptly eliminate infection clusters, and prevent the outbreak from spreading widely.

Following days of extreme heat, a heavy downpour swept through central wards of Dong Nai Province in southern Vietnam on Tuesday evening, flooding several major roads and disrupting daily life.

As the first light of dawn stretches across the sky in Ho Chi Minh City, 31-year-old Nguyen Van Nguyen throws on his company-issued jacket, checks two mobile phones and a portable power bank, then heads to the small parking lot beneath his rented apartment.

With the price of exported coffee surging 55 percent in the first seven months of this year, Vietnamese coffee exporters reached a record of US$6 billion in revenue during this period.

Vietnam's exports in July rose 16% from a year earlier to $42.27 billion, while industrial production increased by an annual 8.5%, government data showed on Wednesday.

A torrential rain hit Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday evening, with the highest rainfall recorded in Thu Duc and former Binh Duong areas, resulting in widespread flooding and prolonged traffic congestion.

Far from the bustling tourist crowds of Vietnam’s more famous northern mountainous region, the golden season arrives quietly in Ngoc Linh, a remote upland commune in Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam.

Vietnamese retail giant Saigon Co.op has started work on its SenseFesti Vinh Long shopping mall, a large-scale commercial complex expected to be the province’s most modern hub for shopping, dining, and entertainment upon completion in September 2026.

Vietnamese football referee Tran Dinh Thinh passed away at the age of 43 in the early hours of Monday after collapsing during a pre-season fitness test in Hanoi.

KYOTO -- A Kyoto University research team has developed a pain-reliever that is comparable to morphine but does not have serious side effects.

PARIS - Some of Europe's ageing coal and gas fired power plants can look forward to a more high-tech future as big tech players, such as Microsoft and Amazon, seek to repurpose them as data centres, with ready-made access to power and water.

Blackened skies unleashed torrential rains on Hong Kong and the high-tech cities surrounding south China's Pearl River Delta on Tuesday, shutting hospitals, schools and law courts, and turning the Asian financial centre's many staircases into waterfalls.

BRASILIA -- Brazil is resisting calls to move the global COP30 climate summit, scheduled for November, out of Belem, even as it faces mounting pressure over soaring accommodation prices in the Amazonian city.

Australia will upgrade its navy with 11 Mogami-class frigates built by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Tuesday.

Nordic countries are relieved after battling an exceptional heatwave which shattered the hopes of foreigners seeking to cool off in the far north -- a disappointment meteorologists warn is likely to be repeated.

Fishermen in Lien Huong Commune, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam recovered a seven-metric-ton dead whale and held a traditional burial for it, local authorities said on Sunday.

Malaysian farmer Suratmen Mosman faces a dilemma that threatens to sap supply from the world's top palm oil exporters and drive up prices of the vegetable oil essential to billions of consumers worldwide in the next five years.

NAGOYA -- Police in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, have obtained arrest warrants for 29 Japanese fraud suspects currently detained in Cambodia, investigative sources said Monday.

The Division for Transport Infrastructure Maintenance and Operations under the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Construction has proposed expanding the existing time-limited restriction on sleeper buses in the inner city into a full 24/7 prohibition following a six-month evaluation of the current policy.

Tottenham Hotspur captain Son Heung-min played what is expected to be his final match for the club in front of 64,773 fans at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on Sunday, and teammate James  Maddison was carried off with a knee injury.

South Korean actor Jung Il Woo expressed his fondness for Vietnamese sour fish soup, exclaiming “So delicious!” after taking a sip from a bowl, according to a video posted on the HanQuocBros YouTube channel on Saturday evening.

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Charles Leclerc stunned himself and runaway leaders McLaren with an exceptional late lap to end Ferrari's barren qualifying run by claiming pole position for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.

OPEC+ has reached a preliminary deal to increase oil production by 548,000 barrels per day from September, three sources said on Sunday as concerns mount over potential supply disruptions linked to Russia.

An international team of four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked Saturday with the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).

August may bring one to two tropical storms or depressions to the East Vietnam Sea—possibly affecting the Vietnamese mainland—while torrential rains may strike northern Vietnam, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Amid a sharp drop in customers and sales at traditional markets in Ho Chi Minh City, many vendors and market managers have proposed solutions, calling for stronger state intervention to attract shoppers back.

A man reportedly fell from the fourth floor of Aeon Mall Long Bien in Hanoi at noon on Sunday.