Ho Chi Minh City will not ban gasoline vehicles, relying instead on free buses, wider public transport and incentives to go electric, city Party chief Tran Luu Quang told voters on Thursday.
Students who spent several years preparing for IELTS now fear losing a university admission advantage after the Ministry of Education recently proposed scrapping bonus points for language certificates from next year.
A Singaporean father who has lived in Thailand since 2012 says he has no plans to move back, arguing that his children enjoy a life there that Singapore could not give them.
An Indonesian businessman is under investigation in Singapore after allegedly exchanging 28 counterfeit S$10,000 notes at the Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) casino and returning with six more.
Ho Chi Minh City plans to expand its metro network by nearly 90 km with three new lines, including one connecting Tan Son Nhat airport, built at a cost of more than VND254 trillion (US$9.6 billion).
Vietnamese spent more than VND1.37 quadrillion on lottery tickets from 2013 to 2025, or nearly VND105 trillion (US$4 billion) a year, according to a Finance Ministry report.
Vietnam plans to connect its national digital identification application VNeID with the electronic identification systems of Singapore and Laos, with a view to expanding the connection to other ASEAN countries.
China Huaneng, one of the five largest state-owned electricity generation enterprises in China, is building the country's first plant that stores surplus coal power as heat in molten salt and uses it to drive a turbine with carbon dioxide instead of steam.
A Malaysian man accused of masterminding a scam and money laundering syndicate in Singapore was charged in court there on Sept. 23, a day after Malaysian police arrested him and handed him over.
VNVC and Pfizer plan to expand cooperation on vaccination and disease prevention as Vietnam develops domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity, including plans to assess production of new-generation vaccines.
A total of 664 sets of war martyrs' remains have been recovered at Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City after three months of search and excavation, according to the municipal Military High Command.
Dr. Chakriwat Vivacharawongse, the estranged third son of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, is appealing to return home from Malaysia for emergency surgery on two large brain tumors.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology topped the latest U.S. News & World Report national university rankings, ending Princeton University's 15-year reign at number one.
More than an hour of heavy rain left Le Loi and Ham Nghi streets and Bui Vien backpacker street in central Ho Chi Minh City under deep water on Wednesday afternoon, snarling traffic as office workers and foreign tourists waded through the flood.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has proposed adjustments to the planning of several facilities at Phu Quoc International Airport in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang to serve the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting 2027 (APEC 2027).
An abandoned church by Hai Ly Beach in the northern Vietnam's Ninh Binh Province, whose bell tower now stands next to the sea, has been recognized as a "climate change heritage tourism site."
Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces will face continued heavy downpours through Friday, exacerbating flood risks as the severe weather collides with rising high tides.
Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam has proposed four major orientations to steer and manage change so that competition does not turn into confrontation, differences do not lead to conflict, and scientific – technological progress does not create new divisions.
Nguyen Ngoc Thuy, who ran English language school Apax Leaders, is accused of appropriating VND7.677 trillion (US$295 million) from more than 10,000 people and bribing a business partner to fake his company's revenue.
Lu Yixin, head of chemistry at the National University of Singapore, will join China's Eastern Institute of Technology in January 2027, the second senior academic to leave Singapore for the school in six weeks.
Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam delivered a policy speech at the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) in New York on Tuesday morning (local time).
Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam received Acting U.S. Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao in New York on Tuesday morning (local time), as part of his trip to attend the High-Level General Debate of the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Taiwanese police have arrested a 43-year-old man accused of strangling his Thai girlfriend and hiding her body in a suitcase inside his workplace freezer.
Hope Foundation, Long Chau pharmacy and vaccination network, and pharmaceutical partners launched the "Sharing the Burden for Cancer Patients" program on Sept. 16.
Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam has affirmed that Vietnam is ready to make greater contributions to peace, development and international cooperation, while pursuing a new development model driven by science, technology, innovation and high-quality human resources.
Authorities in the Malaysian state of Sabah have ordered an investigation into security lapses at a resort where a Chinese tourist was allegedly molested by an intruder.
OpenAI announced earlier this month that its AI had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, but a New York University mathematician says the company raced to the answer after learning of his work.
The Living Exhibition opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Sept. 21, featuring more than 25 projects by over 75 artists, photographers and designers from Vietnam and more than 20 other countries.
Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam met with Professor Sarah Anne Soule, Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, in New York on Sept. 21, proposing that the school cooperate with Vietnam in leadership development, AI and innovation, and research partnerships.
All-out efforts are underway at Long Thanh International Airport to complete key components, with trial operations targeted for late September and commercial operations in December.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the U.S. from Sept. 23 to 25 at the invitation of President Donald Trump, China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
BIS Hanoi's Class of 2026 achieved an average International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme score of 35.15, above the global average of 30.88, with two students earning the maximum 45 points.
When FPT chairman Truong Gia Binh proposed opening a school to raise and educate children orphaned by Covid-19, many people expressed doubt and also opposition.
Ho Chi Minh City authorities asked the city's People's Council on Sept. 21 to approve converting 4.57 hectares of mangrove forest for the Ben Thanh-Can Gio metro line.
American 15-year-olds recorded their weakest reading and math results in nearly two decades in the latest international assessment by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), while performance also declined across many developed economies.
From a major road corridor to an integrated transport axis combining roads, light rail and connections to air and sea gateways, Phu Quoc is accelerating the development of multimodal infrastructure as it prepares to host APEC 2027, while laying the groundwork for longer-term growth.
Typhoon Dujuan forced the cancellation of at least 275 flights in Japan on Monday and prompted warnings of potentially record-breaking rainfall as the storm nears Tokyo.
Italy is preparing to ban face coverings in schools and to cap the number of foreign students per class, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday as she played up her right-wing credentials at a youth event organized by her party.
A 35-year-old Russian woman has been permanently deported from Vietnam after repeatedly riding a high-powered motorcycle without protective gear and performing dangerous stunts across Khanh Hoa Province.
A Chinese man turned to AI to choose an auspicious date to bury his mother, but after his family experienced a series of misfortunes, he blamed the AI and sued the company behind it.
Vietnam's largest city climbed 81 places to 205th in Oxford Economics' 2026 global cities ranking, driven by gains in governance, human capital and economics.
Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam arrived in New York on Sept. 20 evening (U.S. time), beginning his participation in the High-Level General Debate of the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 81) and a series of bilateral engagements in the U.S.
A 13-year-old from Hangzhou in eastern China has drawn around 500,000 social media followers and the "future Elon Musk" nickname after winning various hackathon awards by using AI to solve everyday problems.
A Ho Chi Minh City restaurant owner claims he paid a police officer more than VND1.7 billion (US$67,000) to protect his establishments' prostitution activities, but the officer allegedly pocketed the bribe.
A local man has been put under investigation over the drowning death of a then 11-year-old Japanese boy at a five-star resort in Mui Ne in central Vietnam more than four years ago.
China has brought a third unit online at the Shuangjiangkou hydropower station in Sichuan, raising output to 1.5 GW while 27 heliostats help keep the record-breaking dam's clay core warm during winter construction.
Sweden's Nobel Foundation said it will increase this year's prize money for its prestigious annual awards by 9% to a total value of 12 million Swedish crowns (US$1.22 million) in each of the six categories.
Bai Rang Beach in Mui Ne Ward in central Vietnam has lied buried under extensive mounds of waste for two months, causing severe pollution and disrupting tourism operations.
Indonesian authorities are holding a Chinese diving instructor over the alleged killing and eating of a critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle in the Raja Ampat marine conservation area.
A Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight from London was diverted to Istanbul on Sept. 15 after a passenger fell ill, a day after another of the carrier's jets turned back to Singapore over a medical emergency.
