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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- Danish jewelry company Pandora has opened the world’s largest fine-jewelry crafting facility in Vietnam, a $150 million factory powered entirely by renewable electricity and using 100% recycled gold and silver. The expansion highlights a broader challenge for the jewelry industry: reducing the environmental footprint…

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- It is the flood Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City has learned to expect. Forecasters warned on Sept. 27 that high tides could combine with heavy rain to increase the risk of flooding in Ho Chi Minh City, one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable cities.…

HANOI: Vietnam is extending a package of fuel-tax relief measures to the end of 2026, after having introduced them earlier this year to help stabilise the domestic market amid supply concerns due to war in the Middle East. Extending the package would help ensure energy security, stabilise the economy, contain…

A Vietnamese pro-democracy organisation has alleged that two of its members, who hold Norwegian and Australian citizenship, were abducted in Cambodia and taken to the border with Vietnam, where Hanoi authorities later accused them of illegally entering the country. Vietnam has charged the two men, along with a third alleged…

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Michele Bullock is addressing the press conference, explaining the reason behind raising the key interest rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 4.60% from 4.35% in the September policy meeting. Key quotes from the RBA press conference   Inflation is driven by domestic capacity pressures. …

BANGKOK — Over the course of 2025, the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined 746,168 hectares (1.8 million acres) of tree cover, an area roughly equivalent to the size of the Bangkok Metropolitan Area, according to Mongabay’s analysis*. Data published by the Global Land Analysis…

Driving the news: Five Saudi high school students entered a major international scientific arena in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi on 25 September, 2026. The students represent Saudi Arabia at the 19th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA 2026). The competition runs through 5 October, 2026, as it gathers…

TL;DR U.S. prosecutors have charged a Vietnamese national with money laundering tied to alleged cryptocurrency “pig butchering” schemes. Prosecutors say wallets controlled by the defendant received roughly $53.3 million linked to fraud schemes targeting U.S. victims. One victim allegedly transferred about $16 million after being directed to a fake crypto…

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). I leave my air-conditioned hotel room and step into Hanoi’s soupy humidity. It’s 4am and Duyen Phan is waiting outside, wide awake and ready for breakfast. Her short, straight hair falls just past her ears, and she’s dressed in light activewear…

Vietnamese group Sun Group and American hotel giant Marriott International formalised, on 23 September 2026 in New York, a strategic cooperation agreement aimed at developing upscale hotel complexes in Vietnam and positioning the island of Phu Quoc as a benchmark destination for business tourism...Read More