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HO CHI MINH CITY -- Hoang Trang, who works at a cafe while seeking an IT job, took a bus from Ho Chi Minh City eight hours north to Dak Lak to spend Tet with family. [1]

This photo taken on November 20, 2025 shows people wading through floodwaters in Nha Trang in Vietnam’s coastal province of Khanh Hoa. [2]

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM – For a few months every year, before the dry season arrives, Hoa* leaves her hometown of Dak Lak in Vietnam’s Central Highlands for the southern metropolises to find seasonal work. [3]

AFP Typhoon Kalmaegi churned across Vietnam Friday, claiming five more lives after its devastating passage through the Philippines where the death toll rose to 188. [4]

Malaysians are being advised to postpone travel to Thailand and Vietnam due to unstable weather, causing severe the flooding affecting several areas of both countries, said Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan today. [5]

AFP A Thai court approved on Monday the extradition of a leading hill tribe activist to Vietnam, where he faces 10 years in jail over rare deadly attacks on police headquarters. [6]

NGHE AN, VIETNAM ― A trail of enormous footprints, crisscrossing slabs of cracked concrete, lead to a battered ranger station in Vietnam’s Pu Mat National Park. [7]

BINH DINH, CENTRAL VIETNAM ― Vietnam has supplied wood pellets to Japan and South Korea in their quest to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through an increase in biomass energy production. [8]

Sources
[1] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2026-03-09 · 71% match

Vietnam Lunar New Year now means holidaymaking or frugality

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Hoang Trang, who works at a cafe while seeking an IT job, took a bus from Ho Chi Minh City eight hours north to Dak Lak to spend Tet with family.

[2] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-11-24 · 75% match

Vietnam flooding kills at least 90

This photo taken on November 20, 2025 shows people wading through floodwaters in Nha Trang in Vietnam’s coastal province of Khanh Hoa.

[3] TH mekongeye.com · 2023-03-06 · 85% match

A lack of water leaves Vietnam’s coffee farmers high and dry

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM – For a few months every year, before the dry season arrives, Hoa* leaves her hometown of Dak Lak in Vietnam’s Central Highlands for the southern metropolises to find seasonal work.

[4] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-11-08 · 40% match

Deadly Typhoon Kalmaegi ravages Vietnam, Philippines

AFP Typhoon Kalmaegi churned across Vietnam Friday, claiming five more lives after its devastating passage through the Philippines where the death toll rose to 188.

[5] TH world.thaipbs.or.th · 2025-11-24 · 40% match

Malaysia issues travel advisories for Thailand and Vietnam

Malaysians are being advised to postpone travel to Thailand and Vietnam due to unstable weather, causing severe the flooding affecting several areas of both countries, said Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan today.

[6] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-10-01 · 40% match

Thai court approves extradition of Vietnamese hill tribe activist

AFP A Thai court approved on Monday the extradition of a leading hill tribe activist to Vietnam, where he faces 10 years in jail over rare deadly attacks on police headquarters.

[7] TH mekongeye.com · 2023-07-17 · 40% match

Vietnam’s last wild elephants on the brink of survival

NGHE AN, VIETNAM ― A trail of enormous footprints, crisscrossing slabs of cracked concrete, lead to a battered ranger station in Vietnam’s Pu Mat National Park.

[8] TH mekongeye.com · 2023-11-19 · 40% match

Smoke, mirrors, wood pellets: Vietnam clears native forest to supply ‘clean’ energy to Asia

BINH DINH, CENTRAL VIETNAM ― Vietnam has supplied wood pellets to Japan and South Korea in their quest to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through an increase in biomass energy production.

[9] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-01-21 · 40% match

Vietnam jails 100 over police station attacks

AFP Vietnam has jailed nearly 100 people on terrorism charges over shooting attacks last year on police headquarters in the country’s Central Highlands that left nine people dead, state media said Saturday.

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2018-04-03 · 33% match

Huge Haul of Smuggled Teak Seized in Southern Rakhine

YANGON — More than 30 tons of smuggled teak were seized in the village of Kaing Shae near Taungup Township in southern Rakhine State on Monday, according to a local forestry official.

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