Việt Nam News

The Embassy of Việt Nam in Greece advises Vietnamese citizens travelling in Greece that as there are currently gale-force winds, they should avoid standing close to cliff edges, boat sides, and refrain from going out to sea during storms to avoid tragic accidents.

Twenty-three prizes were presented at the Grand Final of the 8th Bach Khoa Innovation (BKI 2025) on August 9 in HCM City, with 21 going to Vietnamese schools and universities and two to overseas institutions.

Within the framework of the programme, around 600 local residents and people of Vietnamese origin received general health check-ups, basic tests, medical consultations, free medicine, and gift packages containing daily necessities.

Hailing the units’ efforts that help save three months of construction time and significantly reduce costs compared to the initial estimate, PM Phạm Minh Chính expressed his hope that they will strive to soon make the bridge’s parts joined and open it to traffic on schedule, thereby better facilitating local people’s travel.

The school, which was an initiative by the chairman of the FPT Group, Trương Gia Bình, has been a ‘love’ shelter for children who lost their parents to COVID-19 since 2021.

Leading ophthalmology experts shared their experiences in preventing blindness and treating eye diseases at the 2025 Ophthalmology Conference in Hà Nội on August 8-9.

Twenty crew members of the GT Unity were safely brought ashore after a fire broke out in the vessel’s engine room off southern Việt Nam. Rescue ships and patrol vessels worked together to contain the blaze and evacuate the crew.

Vietnamese language is now officially taught at four high schools and is one of eight optional second foreign languages in the national university entrance exam of the RoK.

After assaulting a traffic police lieutenant colonel and being taken to the police station, the Russian national was found to have alcohol in his breath.

Ahead of General Secretary Tô Lâm’s state visit, Park Nark Jong, former Director of the Korean Cultural Centre in Việt Nam expressed hope that the outcomes will enhance the quality of economic cooperation, expand training and human resource collaboration, and strengthen mutual cultural understanding.

Describing Agent Orange as one of the most severe and enduring legacies of the war in Việt Nam, Grand Ry warned that its impact – still affecting generations more than five decades later – could last another two to three decades.

All 20 crew members aboard the Vietnamese oil tanker GT Unity were successfully rescued from a fire in the vessel’s engine room, thanks to the swift response of the Liberian-flagged ship Androusa and Vietnamese maritime rescue teams.

Once completed, Diêm Điền port is expected to rival some of Southeast Asia’s leading seaports, expand the province’s maritime economic space and create a new growth engine for the locality and surrounding regions.

The networks bring together universities, research institutes and domestic and foreign businesses. Members will work closely in training, research, and technology transfer by sharing curricula, improving faculty capacity, providing access to laboratories and research facilities, and jointly implementing science and technology projects.

On this occasion, the VYF and TikTok Việt Nam signed a strategic cooperation agreement under which, the two sides will provide young people with life skills, including self-management, communication, problem-solving, self-protection, financial management, technology use, health care, information handling, and protection against harmful online content.

The 'A80-Tự hào Việt Nam' platform provides real-time updates, event details and tools for public engagement in the 80th anniversary celebrations.

Investigators later confirmed that financially vulnerable Vietnamese women were being recruited as surrogates, with some taken to China or Cambodia for embryo transfers before returning to Việt Nam for the remainder of their pregnancy.

The events, entitled 'Optimising Prevention of Invasive Meningococcal Disease: From Clinical Evidence to Real-World Data', were jointly organised by the Tâm Anh Research Institute (TAMRI) and Pfizer Vietnam.