Vietnam experienced a year of extreme natural disasters in 2024, with record-breaking storms, floods, and heatwaves, as experts warn of intensified risks ahead with La Niña.

Russia will facilitate Vietnam's participation in the BRICS bloc of developing economies as a "partner country."

This world-class spectacle will debut with the innovative combination of pyro drones and high-altitude fireworks, accompanied by a distinguished artistic programme, promising an extraordinary aerial light display.

With a budget of VND5 million (US$196.8), a traveler can experience a joyful Lunar New Year, or Tet holiday, in the following destinations which are near Hanoi. Not far from Hanoi, Sa Pa Town in Lao Cai Province is an attractive mountainous destination to which tourists don't have to book a flight.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Beijing is ready to work with Hanoi to build a community with a shared future of strategic significance, China's official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. The

The Vietnam government said late on Wednesday that it will consider removing regulatory hurdles to allow aircraft manufactured by Chinese state-owned planemaker COMAC to operate in the country. COMAC is seeking to establish itself as an alternative to leading Western planemakers Airbus and Boeing.

A species of giant isopod, Bathynomus vaderi, has been named following its harvesting in the waters off Vietnam. According to scientists who wrote about the giant crustacean in the journal ZooKeys, it can grow to at least 12 inches long.

Vietnam and Russia signed an agreement on nuclear energy and several cooperation deals on Tuesday during a visit to Hanoi by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

Russia is willing to help develop Vietnam's nuclear power sector and provide it with crude oil and LNG, the two countries said on Wednesday.

Hanoi is restarting its civilian nuclear program nearly a decade after canceling it over cost and safety concerns.

A Vietnamese court jailed a prominent former lawyer for three years on Friday over Facebook posts, a ruling condemned by rights groups as a fresh attack on freedom of expression in the communist country.

Vietnam and Russia inked an agreement to boost cooperation on nuclear energy during Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s two-day visit to Hanoi.