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.

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.

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.

Vietnam’s capital has been blanketed in toxic air for weeks with one index briefly making Hanoi the world’s most-polluted city on Friday, putting pressure on authorities to take tougher action to tackle the smog.

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.

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.

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.

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. Vietnam and Russia also agreed to continue to facilitate oil and gas projects on each others' continental shelves,

Russia will facilitate Vietnam’s participation in the BRICS bloc of developing economies as a “partner country.”

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.

Russia will facilitate Vietnam’s participation in the BRICS bloc of developing economies as a “partner country.”