Five Vietnamese businesswomen have been named among Fortune's 100 Most Powerful Women in Asia for 2026, with Pham Thu Huong, vice chairwoman of Vingroup, Vietnam's largest private conglomerate, ranking highest among the Vietnamese representatives, according to the U.S. business magazine.
STOCKHOLM - The Belgian-American Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work creating an Antarctic observatory of ice to detect high-energy neutrinos, elusive subatomic particles that can reveal otherwise inaccessible information about the cosmos.
A recent incident in An Giang Province, southern Vietnam, in which a boy was seen hanging from the string of a kite flying high above the ground, has sparked public concern, prompting kite-flying enthusiasts to warn that large kites can generate enough lift to raise objects weighing up to 200…
Vietnam recorded a US$19.42 billion trade deficit in the first nine months of 2026 as imports grew significantly faster than exports amid rising production demand, even as the country returned to a $1.27 billion trade surplus in September, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
A spell of downpours might batter central Vietnam through around October 10 or 11, posing risks of urban flooding, flash floods and landslides in mountainous areas.
Ho Chi Minh City and much of southern Vietnam are forecast to see several more days of rain, with heavier downpours from the afternoon into the night and rising tides expected to worsen flooding in low-lying areas.
A 63-year-old British tourist who became stranded in a remote mountainous area in central Vietnam after following Google Maps has praised local residents and police for coming to his aid, calling Vietnam an “incredibly safe” country worth experiencing.
Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh have agreed to strengthen people-to-people exchanges, particularly among young generations, ahead of 60 years of Vietnam-Cambodia diplomatic ties. Two major casino operators in Da Nang paid more than $46 million in taxes as the city's major businesses posted strong…
Vietnam's largest private conglomerate Vingroup and French rail technology group Alstom have signed a contract to supply Hanoi's metro projects with 200 Metropolis metro trainsets, 117 of which will be manufactured and assembled in Vietnam under a technology license agreement.