Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev hosted an official welcome ceremony in Astana on Tuesday for Vietnam’s Party General Secretary To Lam and his spouse Ngo Phuong Ly, who are on a three-day state visit to the Central Asian country.

Vietnamese seafood exporters are accelerating shipments to the U.S. over the next two months in a bid to beat a looming July 9 deadline, when a 90-day delay on Washington’s global reciprocal tariff policy is set to expire.

A taxi company in Da Lat City in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong said it would give one of its electric taxi drivers the sack after a video surfaced on social media on Monday, showing the driver lowering the window on the driver’s side, resting his foot on it while driving.

A man residing in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, southern Vietnam has recently died after showing symptoms of suspected rabies more than a year after being bitten by a dog and not receiving a vaccination.

As more Vietnamese students look abroad for their education, experts are urging families to introduce English proficiency testing, including the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), from a younger age to better prepare students for academic and cultural integration overseas.

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A cassava breeding project funded by Australia is being implemented in Vietnam to develop disease-resistant varieties that enhance yield potential and contribute to improving farmer livelihoods in Vietnam and its neighbors.

U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs are increasingly clogging up the wheels of a world economy which for decades were greased by predictable and relatively free trade.

Marvel movie «Thunderbolts» brought in $162 million at theaters around the world over the weekend, providing a solid start to the summer movie season that is key to Hollywood's year at the box office.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) had pledged a substantial US$16.5 billion in loans, grants, and technical assistance to Vietnam's public sector as of 2023, spanning 458 projects.

The Vietnamese government has announced a target to reduce the number of civil servants and public employees by at least 20 percent following a comprehensive restructuring of its organizational apparatus.

Vietnam’s Politburo has issued Resolution No. 68-NQ/TW emphasizing the private sector as the most important driving force of the national economy and urging the implementation of key solutions to strengthen its role.

Vietnam faces more challenges than opportunities because of U.S. tariffs but will still aim to meet its target of at least 8% growth this year, the Prime Minister said on Monday, ahead of the start of trade talks with Washington later this week.

The under-construction VND11-trillion (US$423-million) Huu Nghi – Chi Lang Expressway in Cao Loc District, Lang Son Province, northern Vietnam is taking shape and is envisioned to hold strategic importance for trade between Vietnam and China when it is in place.

Authorities in Phu Quoc Island City, off the coast of Kien Giang Province in southern Vietnam, have issued a warning about jellyfish after a foreign tourist was reportedly stung while swimming near Ham Rong Cape.

Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City announced on Sunday that it had successfully performed organ transplants into six patients using organs donated by a brain-dead patient within just 24 hours.

Ten people died when «sudden strong winds» capsized four boats carrying tourists, plunging 84 people into a river in Southwestern China on Sunday, state media reported.

The ninth session of Vietnam’s 15th National Assembly (NA) opened in Hanoi on Monday morning, marking a critical milestone in the country’s political calendar, with a packed agenda including proposed amendments to the 2013 Constitution and the review of many major laws and policies.

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Vietnam's Ministry of National Defense, in coordination with relevant agencies, is preparing to organize a parade and march at Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the National Day on September 2.

On the Doha seashore, rows of wooden dhow boats line a pier, with scores of fish on display -- part of a festival seeking to revive the country's long seafaring tradition.

At a small high-end confectionery in Vienna, chefs put the finishing touches to one of Austria's signature souvenirs: Mozart chocolate balls filled with marzipan, pistachio, and rich almond and hazelnut nougat.

Massive planned US duties on solar panels made in Southeast Asia could be a chance for the region to ramp up its own long-stalled energy transition, experts say.

TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) by its lead EU privacy regulator on Friday over concerns on how it protects user information and was ordered to suspend data transfers to China if its processing is not brought into compliance within six months.

The administration in Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh Province, south-central Vietnam has issued a directive to temporarily suspend the operation of unqualified jet skis and speedboats in the city starting from May 2 following an incident in which a jet ski lost control and crashed into the shore, killing an eight-year-old girl and injuring three others.

A 43-year-old forest ranger lost his life after being attacked by a gaur during a routine patrol in a forest in southern Vietnam on Saturday.

Colonial powers once sought to wipe out cloves grown by locals on the eastern Indonesian island of Ternate to safeguard their monopoly over the prized crop. Today farmers say the gravest threat to their plants is climate change.

Eurovision host city Basel laid on a mass over-60s disco on Saturday to whip up the party mood ahead of the event's grand final in two weeks' time.

Authorities in Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam are verifying information shared by a tourist on social media accusing a floating eatery in Nha Trang Bay of overcharging, selling one kilogram of boxfish for VND3.5 million (US$134.7).

The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged diplomatic communications and delivered notes of protest to the countries concerned regarding actions that infringe upon its sovereignty over Hoai An Rock and other related features in the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago in the East Vietnam Sea.

The Myanmar Embassy in Hanoi on Friday received VND845,591,922 (US$32,600) from Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on behalf of its readers to support victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Myanmar in late March.

This year's Reunification Day holiday has marked a notable shift in Ho Chi Minh City, as the usual traffic chaos gave way to a more orderly scene, with thousands of residents choosing to travel by metro.

The Center for Disease Control in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai confirmed on Friday that a three-year-old child died of rabies after being bitten by a stray dog and not receiving post-exposure treatment.

With a deep commitment to “easing the pain,” Nguyen Hung Vu has donated more than 20 prosthetic legs to wounded veterans over the past three years, helping them take new steps and find renewed joy in life after war.

In response to impending tariff changes by the United States, Vietnamese firms are racing to deliver goods before the 90-day grace period expires, with local exporters active in seafood and wood working at full speed to minimize the impact of the new trade barriers.