VOV.VN - Vietnam has carried out nearly 11,000 successful organ transplants after more than 30 years of development, but shortages of donated organs, particularly from brain-dead donors, continue to pose a major challenge as thousands of patients still await transplants to survive.

VOV.VN - More than 230 businesses from 25 countries and territories are taking part in the 10th International Livestock, Dairy, Meat Processing and Aquaculture Exposition (ILDEX Vietnam 2026), which opened in Ho Chi Minh City on May 20, aimed at connecting agricultural and food supply chains, technologies and markets across the region.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese fighter Huynh Van Tuan will face Thailand’s Chokpreecha in a Muay Thai bout at ONE Friday Fights 155 in Bangkok on May 22.

Fitch Ratings has given a positive assessment of Vietnam’s economic fundamentals, highlighting the country’s macroeconomic stability and resilience amid continuing global uncertainty.

Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information, Education and Mass Mobilisation Tran Thanh Lam received a delegation from Cuba’s Fidel Castro Ruz Centre led by its Director Dr Rene Gonzalez Barrios in Hanoi on May 20.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Tran Thanh Man has demanded the NA's Committee for Economic and Financial Affairs to enhance its policy advisory capacity, stressing that robust and evidence-based policymaking is essential to achieving the double-digit economic growth while safeguarding macroeconomic stability.

Authorities in southern Tay Ninh province are accelerating efforts to renovate martyrs’ cemeteries and identify unidentified fallen soldiers through a large-scale DNA sampling and testing programme.

An editorial team met at the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) in Hanoi on May 20 to begin a sweeping review of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)’s century-long leadership, a process aimed at shaping the country’s long-term development roadmap ahead of the 15th National Party Congress.

The Hanoi People’s Committee on May 19 issued an official press release providing key details on the Red River Scenic Boulevard Axis project, which is identified as a strategic and long-term development orientation for the capital city in its new development phase.

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra on May 20 called for wider public participation in organ and tissue donation, describing it as a noble humanitarian act capable of extending and saving countless lives.