Lang Son becomes Vietnam’s 4th UNESCO Global Geopark
Travel 14:04 29/06/2025The UNESCO Global Geoparks Council has awarded a certificate to Lang Son Geopark in Lang Son Province, northern Vietnam, officially recognizing it as a UNESCO Global Geopark, according to provincial authorities.
Flooding isolates hundreds of households in mountainous Vietnamese province
Vietnam News 21:31 23/06/2025Prolonged downpours in Lang Son, a mountainous province in northern Vietnam, have flooded dozens of areas and isolated hundreds of households, prompting emergency evacuations by local authorities.
Dong Lam Steppe boasts surreal beauty, becomes the new face of Vietnam’s floating season
Vietnam Life 10:00 29/05/2022The grasslands of the 100-hectare Dong Lam were, at one point, considered to be “Vietnam’s Mongolia"
Vietnamese district police chief reportedly commits suicide due to post-COVID depression
Vietnam News 14:27 25/04/2022He suffered from insomnia and showed signs of depression following his COVID-19 infection
Two men get death sentence for trading 6.6kg of heroin in Vietnam
Vietnam News 14:49 24/12/2021They bought the heroin in Nghe An for US$104,700 and intended to resell it in northern Vietnam
Thousands of fruit-carrying trucks stranded at Vietnam-China border gates over sluggish produce clearance
Economy 15:50 19/12/2021Many tractor-trailers have been stuck at these border gates for nearly three weeks
Vietnam busts Chinese people smuggling ring
Vietnam News 17:42 17/05/2021Lang Son police officers have nabbed members of a smuggling ring who sneaked Chinese nationals into Vietnam
Vietnam police save one-year-old boys from being trafficked to China
Vietnam News 14:22 15/01/2021Officers have arrested the two women who attempted to bring the two boys to China
Border gate reopened for transport of Vietnamese exports to China
Economy 14:49 20/02/2020The Tan Thanh Border Gate was previously shut down to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Mass shooting suspect wanted in Vietnam
Vietnam News 15:39 19/01/2020The man gunned down seven people, most of whom are members of his ex-wife’s family
Man guns down 7 at house, auto shop in northern Vietnam
Vietnam News 15:07 14/01/2020The suspect was armed with an AK-47 assault rifle
Hanoi’s ‘ghost trains’ struggle to stay in operation
Economy 20:14 16/11/2018These trains serve only a dozen passengers daily
