Vietnam sets a goal to reduce the stunting rate in under-5 children to below 15% by 2030, but this rate currently is still high at 18.2%.

VOV.VN - Liver cancer has surpassed lung cancer to become the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Vietnam, with 77% of cases occurring in men.

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has issued the final affirmative countervailing duty determination on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam, according to the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam.

The US dollar may further strengthen against the Vietnamese dong to hit VND25,400 per dollar at the end of this month, according to experts.

VOV.VN - Three Color Dessert (Chè ba màu) has been named among the 100 best desserts in Asia, as compiled by international food website TasteAtlas.

After cooling down in August 2024 and bottoming out at the end of September, the USD/VND exchange rate has shown signs of increasing again since the beginning of October.

Provinces, ministries and government agencies had allocated VND664.9 trillion (US$26.7 billion) for public investment as of the end of September, showed data from the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

The total social investment capital disbursed during January – September rose 6.8% to some VND2.42 quadrillion (US$97.2 billion) on the back of a fall in lending interest rate, robust production growth, and the continuation of tax incentives, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has issued a circular on interest rates applied to US dollar (USD) deposits of organisations and individuals at credit institutions and foreign bank branches.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese airlines, including Vietnam Airlines, VietJet Air, Pacific Airlines, VASCO, Bamboo Airways and Vietravel Airlines, operated a total of 176,307 flights, of which 45,889 were delayed, accounting for 26% of the total figure, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV)'s report.