Soc Trang is home to the largest population of the Khmer people in Vietnam, with 362,029 people, accounting for 30.18% of the province's population.

US President Joe Biden paid a State visit to Vietnam from September 10 to 11 at the invitation of Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee.

Education has been one of the most prominent areas of cooperation between Vietnam and the US, with both sides designing many policies to strengthen bilateral partnership in this field based on the shared view that education is the foundation of national development.

Efforts to enable poverty reduction in the southern region are to be pushed ahead in the coming time to help better the lives of ethnic minority groups in the area.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front’s Ho Chi Minh City chapter raised 34 billion VND from the public to fund the “Vi bien dao que huong- Vi tuyen dau To Quoc” (for the homeland’s sea and islands – for the nation’s front) in 2023, according to an annoucement at an art exchange held on Sep. 7.

PSNews - A Boeing C-17 Globemaster III plane carrying supplies and vehicles for U.S. President Joe Biden's upcoming visit to Vietnam landed at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi.

All the four Vietnamese students competing at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2023 have secured medals, comprising one gold, two silver, and one bronze, the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) said on September 2.

The numbers of traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries in the first seven months of 2023 declined from the same period last year, reported the National Traffic Safety Committee.

PSNews - Many organisations, agencies, and thousands of people from across the country visited the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum on the occasion of Vietnam’s 78th National Day (September 2, 1945 – 2023).

The Ho Chi Minh City Centre for Disease Control (HCDC) signed a cooperation agreement on preventive medicine with the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) on August 31, aiming to make strides toward improving the disease control capability at the centre.

The Ca Dong, Xe Dang and Bh’noong ethnic groups in Nam Tra My district of Quang Nam province have taken President Ho Chi Minh’s family name “Ho” for decades. On the National Day of September 2, they jointly organize a ceremony in commemoration for Uncle Ho. Many of them have built the statue of Uncle Ho and temple dedicated to Him in their own homes.

This decision demonstrates the leniency and humanitarian policy of the Party and the State, creating conditions for prisoners to return to their families and the community.

Vietnam has received 7.8 million foreign visitors in the first eight months of this year, putting the country on track to fulfil its this year's 8 million target, according to the General Statistics Office.

More foreign citizens, particularly Chinese, have used e-visa to enter Vietnam via the Huu Nghi International Border Gate, according to authorities at the border gate in the northern province of Lang Son.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 30 cut the red ribbons inaugurating the second phase of Vinh Tuy bridge (Vinh Tuy 2) in the capital city of Hanoi, helping to ease traffic load between the two banks of the Red River.

The UK Embassy in Vietnam has announced a new wave of capacity-building support for low carbon projects which have the potential to benefit communities across the Southeast Asian nation.