The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is getting turned upside-down as a gritty drama set to be executive produced by Will Smith, Hollywood trade publications reported on Tuesday. 

A pair of pandas on loan from China to a Canadian zoo are facing a food shortage as their supply of fresh bamboo dries up, officials warned.

Artists performed four short plays at the Goethe Institute in Hà Nội on Monday to a limited audience. Việt Nam News reporter Nguyễn Bình spoke with Sĩ Tiến, Việt Nam Youth Theatre's deputy-director about theatre in a pandemic-hit world. 

Rap Việt and King of Rap are the first two competitions seeking talented rappers to be aired on Vietnamese television. Both shows have been screened during prime time at the weekend since August 1.

The Ministry of Health has called for a crackdown on illegal new modern cigarettes advertising and trading via e-commerce and social networks.

To serve breakfast on time for more than 900 people, the soldiers working in the kitchen have to wake up at 4am to buy ingredients and cook.

A 55-year-old man from the central province of Đà Nẵng died of COVID-19-related complications in the early hours Wednesday morning.

Each photographer can send up to five pictures from today till November 1 and the final results will be announced on November 15.

Three Vietnamese citizens repatriated from Japan have all tested positive for COVID-19.

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彭博社（Bloomberg ）12月19日发表文章称，2022年，越南可能超过英国成为美国七大贸易伙伴之一。

Le Vietnam et la Malaisie ont un grand potentiel pour promouvoir la coopération économique bilatérale dans la période post-COVID-19.

Fifty-two-year-old Kim Bumjae and 27-year-old Nguyễn Thị Hương from Tân Bình District's Ward 2 in HCM City were arrested for appropriating property by fraud.

A 37-year-old man from the central province of Quảng TrỊ has become the 16th person to die of COVID-19-related complications in Việt Nam, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn.

Le Vietnam a recensé 163.174 nouveaux cas de COVID-19 ces 24 dernières heures jusqu’à 16h00 ce vendredi 18 mars, une baisse de 10.157 cas par rapport à jeudi.

A la nouvelle du décès de Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, ancien président du Pakistan, le président vietnamien Nguyen Xuan Phuc a adressé ses condoléances au président pakistanais, Arif Av.

Đà Nẵng will extend social distancing measures from Wednesday (August 12) after the first two-week period ended on August 11.

The HCM City Department of Health should continue to thoroughly check transmission sources and risks in the community, the chairman of the city People’s Committee, Nguyễn Thành Phong, said at a recent meeting with the Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Hà Nội is striving to complete the implementation of RT-PCT testing, a real-time reserve transcription polymerase chain reaction, ahead of August 20 for 75,000 people who visited the central city of Đà Nẵng – a COVID-19 hotspot – and returned to Hà Nội from July 15, according to a leading official.