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General Secretary & President Tô Lâm chaired the morning session, where delegates met in the plenary hall to discuss a proposal for the CPV Central Committee’s resolution on strengthening Party building and rectification

U.K. graduates face a shrinking job market, with advertised graduate vacancies plunging 45.6% year-on-year to a record low in July as employers cut hiring amid wider economic pressures and growing use of AI.

For more than fifty years, Việt Nam and Panama have enjoyed a growing friendship and partnership, strengthened by high-level visits, signed agreements, and teamwork in various international forums.

Over the past more than five decades, the friendship and multifaceted cooperation between the two countries have been nurtured through high-level visits, cooperation agreements and close coordination at various international forums.

More than 8,500 people joined CapitaLand Development’s Step For Kindness campaign, logging over 490 million steps and unlocking a US$98,000 donation to support education and skills development for vulnerable children and youth in Vietnam.

Belgian physicist Francis Halzen on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on subatomic particles at the South Pole, the award jury said.

The index hit a low session at 1,734.94 points. From its intraday low, the index recovered nearly 24 points.

The marathon is among the events reflecting the rapid growth of community sports in Việt Nam while encouraging a more active and healthy lifestyle.

Chinese scientists have built a 250-kilowatt plant that makes hydrogen and fresh water from seawater in a single system, reusing the electrolyzer’s waste heat to raise electrical efficiency by 14.4%.

Nearly 8,000 severely disabled Singaporeans from lower-income households have received almost S$50 million (US$39 million) in long-term care financial support through the government’s ElderFund scheme since its launch in 2020.

President of the Republic of Panama José Raúl Mulino and his spouse Maricel Cohen De Mulino, who are on an official visit to Vietnam, on October 6 visited Hà Nội’s Văn Miếu – Quốc Tử Giám (Temple of Literature – Imperial Academy), a landmark symbol of Việt Nam’s long-standing […]

As VIB marks 30 years of operations, its retail credit grew at an average annual rate of 23 per cent from 2017 to 2025, about 1.6 times the industry average.

The forum titled ‘Prospects of economic, trade and investment cooperation between Việt Nam and Tanzania’ was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Monday.

A Singaporean woman convicted of promoting prostitution at a chain of massage parlors in Washington state is the third citizen of the city-state named on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s “worst of the worst criminal aliens” list.

The U.S. dollar rose against the Vietnamese dong on the black market Tuesday morning, while the euro hovered near the lowest agains the greenback in 17 months.

Việt Nam’s low-altitude economy is at an early stage of development and is forecast to grow by around 13 per cent annually by 2035.

Seven travelers were caught trying to bring more than S$200,000 (US$156,300) in undeclared cash into Singapore during a Sept. 22-28 checkpoint operation that found 67 people breaking border rules.

Foreign tourists are forced to navigate flooded streets in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday afternoon following a heavy rain.

The HCM City exhibition will welcome manufacturers, importers, distributors, installation and maintenance companies, component suppliers, property developers, building management companies and other organisations interested in Việt Nam’s elevator industry.

The outlook for the pepper industry remains positive, but greater efforts are needed to standardise growing areas, improve product value and strengthen competitiveness.

British expat Barry Mattacott, 63, was traveling by motorcycle from Quy Nhon to Da Nang when Google Maps led him onto a mountainous road, where he got lost and suffered a flat tire before police came to his aid.

A 28-year-old laboratory technician at a Russian anti-plague institute died in Siberia on Oct. 2, days after she reportedly broke a test tube of plague bacteria, leaving about 200 people under medical observation.

The combination of rising output and consumption, alongside a moderate increase in inventories, suggests that industrial production continued to expand while demand remained relatively strong, which will support manufacturing in the final months of 2026.

The rankings reflect a major shift in the sector: technology is no longer about showcasing sophisticated equipment, but about cutting costs, boosting productivity and generating real returns.

Five public universities made the top 10 of U.S. News & World Report’s 2027 undergraduate business rankings, with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School at No. 1.

The ministry will finalise an information system for processing administrative procedures and integrate it with the National Public Service Portal to ensure seamless operations and improve service quality and user experience.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has once again saw his net worth topped US$1 trillion as stocks of his companies SpaceX and Tesla surged.