Vietnamese and Indonesian defense leaders have agreed to further promote bilateral defense cooperation across various areas, aiming to leverage the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two nations.

African swine fever (ASF) has rapidly spread across Da Nang City in central Vietnam, hitting 39 wards and communes, while leaving over 4,770 sick pigs culled between July 1 and 28, according to the city’s agriculture department.

The Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Promotion Center, under the municipal Department of Tourism, has partnered with The Outbox Company to launch the HCMC Global Traveler Barometer, a system designed to monitor and analyze data on international visitors to Vietnam.

Vice-chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Van Dung on Tuesday received Hirose Noriko, tourism ambassador of the city in Aichi Prefecture, opening promising prospects for the city’s tourism industry.

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13 feet), damaging buildings and prompting warnings and evacuations that stretched across the Pacific Ocean.

A 30-year-old man from Da Nang City, central Vietnam has been sentenced to death for murdering his mother after she failed to prepare breakfast for him.

Nguyen Tung Son, a cardiologist from Viet Duc University Hospital in Hanoi, won first prize at the Young Investigator Award (YIA), held during the 2025 ASEAN Federation of Cardiology Congress (AFCC) from July 17 to 20 in Penang, Malaysia, the hospital announced on Tuesday.

All 36 students of Vietnam’s team participating in the 2025 World Mathematics Invitational (WMI) in Bangkok have secured awards, including two diamond medals and nine gold medals.

A weekend flash flood in Vietnam's mountainous north killed five people, authorities said Tuesday, while another person remains missing after the deluge.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh has requested the Ministry of Construction to propose solutions to address loopholes following a tourist boat accident in Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam, which left 39 people dead, and report the results to the prime minister before August 15.

Ho Chi Minh City has reached a milestone by ranking second globally among the cities where residents are least likely to move, according to City Pulse 2025: The Magnetic City, a global survey conducted by the U.S.-based Gensler Research Institute.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Industry and Trade has floated a pilot program offering essential goods and services at stations along the city’s first metro line, aiming to build a transit-oriented commercial ecosystem.

Vietnam has seen an influx of cheap hot-rolled coil (HRC) steel given a regulatory loophole that allows importers to bypass anti-dumping duties by slightly altering product dimensions.

Vietnam welcomes the recent immediate and unconditional ceasefire agreement between Cambodia and Thailand, which is a vital step toward de-escalation and peace restoration, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son said at an event in Hanoi on Monday.

Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have directed relevant agencies and the developer of a 36-story condo building in Tam Thang Ward to investigate a huge crack in an apartment on the 16th floor to ensure safety.

A sinkhole that appeared on Truong Chinh Street in Kim Lien Ward, Hanoi has been repaired after a section of the road surface collapsed into a deep hole, causing the front wheel of a motorbike to get stuck last weekend.

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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia -- The leaders of Cambodia and Thailand agreed to a ceasefire on Monday effective midnight, in a bid to bring an end to their deadliest conflict in more than a decade after five days of fierce fighting.

KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's economy is projected to expand by 4% to 4.8% in 2025, down from a previous forecast of 4.5% to 5.5%, its central bank said on Monday, warning that trade and tariff uncertainties could affect global growth.

Lam Dong Province in Vietnam’s Central Higlands is being positioned as a potential host for an international-scale trail race, as local leaders and event organizers highlight the region’s unique natural, cultural, and infrastructure assets.

BANGKOK -- At least six people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a market in Thailand's capital Bangkok on Monday, Thai police said in a statement.

Taiwanese residents holding plastic bags of rubbish stand on a footpath as a yellow garbage truck playing classical music over a loudspeaker pulls up.

Vietnam’s Regiment 940 of the Air Force Officer Training School conducted its first terrain familiarization flight at Kep Airfield in northern Bac Ninh Province on Monday, in preparation for aerial displays marking the country’s 80th National Day in September.

Authorities in Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam, in collaboration with the Executive Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s Quang Ninh branch, on Monday held a grand requiem for the 39 victims of the Vinh Xanh 58 boat capsizing incident in Ha Long Bay.

A Vietnamese TikToker has apologized after a female Malaysian tourist complained that he and his friends caused a disruptive noise disturbance at a hotel in Sa Pa, a popular destination in Lao Cai Province, northern Vietnam.

TURNBERRY, Scotland -- The U.S. struck a framework trade agreement with the European Union on Sunday, imposing a 15% import tariff on most EU goods - half the threatened rate - and averting a bigger trade war between the two allies that account for almost a third of global trade.

BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH - An immediate ceasefire in a deadly border dispute is the purpose of talks with Thailand on Monday, Cambodia's Prime Minister said, but his Thai counterpart said there were doubts about Cambodia's sincerity ahead of the negotiations in Malaysia.

“In my view, we need to stop recycling Western beliefs from the 1800s and instead regard food as a precious, finite resource.”

The Vietnamese women's sepak takraw team made history by coming from behind to defeat Thailand 2-1 in the final of the women's four-player event, claiming the world championship title at the World Sepak Takraw Championship Thai King’s Cup 2025 on Sunday.

An increasing number of home surveillance cameras in Vietnam are being hacked, with private footage leaked or sold online.

South Korean stars Kim Bum and Song Ji Hyo will attend the Beauty Summit 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City on August 29, the organizer said on Sunday evening.

Da Nang City in central Vietnam will begin operating a VND1.8-trillion (US$68.8 million) advanced packaging technology laboratory by the end of 2026, the project’s investor said on Monday.

Firefighters were battling wildfires across Greece and the Western Balkans on Saturday as the south of Europe sweltered under the third heatwave of the summer, with some villages and settlements being evacuated in Greece and Albania.

Authorities in Gia Lai Province, Vietnam are working on a plan to include Chu Dang Ya Volcano in the planning for the Bien Ho-Chu Dang Ya tourism area.

In a large-scale operation targeting traffic violations by passenger vehicles, Ho Chi Minh City traffic police have launched a coordinated campaign to inspect and penalize buses operating outside their approved routes and picking up or dropping off passengers illegally.