Tourism real estate is still attempting to get on the front foot amid reduced selling prices and slow liquidity.

Officials at Vietnam Social Insurance (VNSI) have emphasised the need for robust measures to curb the frequent and increasingly sophisticated misuse of health insurance funds, which has resulted in excessive spending affecting cardholders.

Mai Van Muoi, director of the provincial Department of Health, said the total number of people hospitalized was 91 cases, including 34 foreign tourists.

Hanoi authorities have decided to temporarily suspend all cultural events, sport games and entertainment activities from September 14 to 17 following the deadly mini apartment building fire that killed 56 people and injured 37 others.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Morocco has not received any information regarding Vietnamese casualties in the earthquake that seriously hit many cities in the African country on September 8, said the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Pham Thu Hang.

Tourists to Co To island district of Quang Ninh province will be banned from bringing plastic bags and single-use plastic products to its islands from September 15.

The Vietnam Design Week 2023 will take place at the Van Mieu (Temple of Literature) in Hanoi from September 23-29.

Minh, the owner of a pho (noodle soup) chain with eateries in Da Lat and HCM City, has introduced a new pho dish made of red and green artichoke flowers that has attracted many diners.

Representatives of lodging facilities said they will offer big discounts to those using high-end services in the last months of the year that mark the peak travel season.

CyRadar Information Security Co. informed that many Vietnamese Internet users were tricked to visit a fake Telegram site and have their account data stolen.

The number of trucks carrying export fruit stranded at border gates in Lang Son Province has surged in recent days, according to local news reports.

Vietnam's edtech market is continuing to receive an influx of fresh capital as home-grown edtech startups receive attention from purpose-driven investors.

Real estate firms SonKim, Hai Phat Invest, Van Phuc, and Bitexco, are among 42 companies listed for specialised audits this year, according to the GDT.

Authorities in the central province of Quang Nam are investigating a food poisoning case at a Banh mi baguette shop in Hoi A City after over 90 customers were hospitalised.

Binh Chanh District in HCM City has proposed to open a night street in Trung Son Residential Area to develop tourism.

High expectations placed on sports such as sepak takraw, Chinese chess, shooting, cycling, karate, weightlifting and archery

Universities should only offer privileges to students with IELTS certificates when enrolling students for a linguistics major or for a joint training program taught in English. The IELTS certificate must not be put before professional knowledge.

Social networks will be required to remove content found in violation immediately. Such accounts, community pages and content channels will be locked. The heavy sanctions are expected to help clean up cyberspace.

A group of 14 Jrai artisans from the Central Highlands of Gia Lai will participate in the 2023 Jeonju International Sori Festival, an event for traditional and world music, in Jeollabuk-do Province in South Korea from September 15-24.

VN aims to become a major global production hub to meet the demands of the international market with a diverse range of competitively-priced and high-quality products, said an official at an export forum which opened on Wednesday.

"As two friends from Vietnam and the Philippines, we would like to show you how two different cultures could build up a friendship despite our differences and travel worldwide together."

HCM City authorities plan to allocate an additional 550 hectares of land to build social housing as part of its effort to build 93,000 social housing units by 2030.

HCMC to clear forest land for transshipment port

Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh, former Deputy Minister of National Defense passed away at dawn on September 14 at home in the capital city of Hanoi.

The family of British antiquities smuggler Douglas Latchford handed over a 7th-century statue to Vietnam at a ceremony in London on September 13 (local time).