Author: OMN AI

Vietnamese Party General Secretary and President To Lam is beginning a major overseas trip that includes the United States and Canada, with the first part of the visit focused on the United Nations General Assembly. The diplomatic trip became a major Hanoi story on Sunday, September 20, as Vietnam prepared for a busy schedule of international meetings. To Lam is scheduled to attend the high-level general debate of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly and hold bilateral meetings with foreign leaders and international organizations. The visit gives Vietnam an opportunity to present its views on global issues and…

Vietnam is preparing for a major change in its financial markets as its stock market moves from frontier status to secondary emerging market status under FTSE Russell. The upgrade takes effect on September 21, making Sunday, September 20, an important moment for Hanoi’s financial sector and for investors watching the country’s market reforms. The change follows years of work to improve market access, trading systems and investor confidence. Vietnamese officials have described the move as an important milestone, while also stressing that it creates new responsibilities. The country will need to continue improving market infrastructure, governance and information disclosure after…

The 20th Asian Games open in Japan on Saturday evening. The ceremony takes place at the Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya. It runs from six to eight in the evening, local time. Athletes from 46 nations and territories will parade. The Games close on 4 October. Aichi Prefecture and the city of Nagoya are sharing the hosting duties. This is the third time Japan has staged the event. Tokyo held it in 1958 and Hiroshima in 1994. The motto for this edition is Imagine One Asia. Organisers expect about 10,840 athletes. The scale is vast. There are 469 medal events…

China and the United States have traded warm signals days before a summit. Chinese leader Xi Jinping is due in Washington on 24 September. It will be his first state visit to the US capital since 2015. Just before the trip, US officials handed back 64 items to China. Beijing calls the move proof that the two can work together. The handover took place in two parts. Fifty eight items were returned at the Chinese embassy in Washington. Another six were given back in New York the following day. Homeland Security Investigations led the first ceremony. The Manhattan District Attorney’s…

Vietnam is about to join a group of markets that global funds track closely. From 21 September the country moves into secondary emerging market status. The change comes from the index provider FTSE Russell. It ends a long wait for an upgrade. Officials marked the moment with a conference in Hanoi on Friday. The event was organised by the State Securities Commission with FTSE Russell. It drew fund managers, brokers and officials. The mood was upbeat but measured. Speakers stressed that the work is not finished. The upgrade is a beginning rather than an end. Finance Minister Ngo Van Tuan…

General Secretary and President To Lam, his spouse, and a high ranking Vietnamese delegation have concluded their official visit to the French Republic along with attendance at the International Space Summit in Paris, bringing to a close one of the most extensive overseas diplomatic trips undertaken by Vietnamese leadership in recent memory. The visit capped a journey that began with a historic state visit to Russia before continuing on to France for both bilateral talks and the multilateral space gathering. The France leg produced a substantial package of agreements spanning aviation, defense, technology, and economic cooperation, marking what officials on…

Vietnam’s textile and garment sector reached 49.3 billion dollars in exports during the first eight months of this year, up 7 percent from the same period last year, according to figures highlighting the industry’s continued importance to the country’s broader export economy. With this pace established, the sector now needs to generate approximately 24.9 billion dollars over the remaining four months of the year, averaging 6.23 billion dollars in monthly exports to hit its full year target. That required monthly pace represents a meaningfully faster rate than what the industry has averaged through the first eight months, when total exports…

Vietnam’s women’s national football team is working to regroup this week after suffering an unexpected one two defeat to Chinese Taipei in their opening Group E match at the Asian Games, held on September 14 at Shizuoka Stadium in Japan. Head coach Hoang Van Phuc has asked his players to clear their minds following the setback and focus squarely on their next task within the tournament. The result came as a genuine surprise given Vietnam’s recent form and preparation heading into the competition, having spent weeks training at an overseas camp in Suzhou, China specifically to sharpen tactics and fitness…

The 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games faces mounting criticism over athlete accommodations just days before its official opening ceremony this Saturday, with delegations from across Asia complaining about severe room shortages and poor conditions within a temporary container housing complex. Vietnam’s own delegation joins athletes from dozens of nations navigating this unusual housing arrangement, which organizers adopted specifically to cut costs and reduce the event’s environmental footprint. Rather than building a traditional dedicated athletes’ village, Japanese organizers arranged a decentralized accommodation plan spanning three distinct components, hotels across Aichi Prefecture, a chartered cruise ship docked at Nagoya Port, and roughly two…

Ho Chi Minh City and the broader southern Vietnam region are bracing for five consecutive days of heavy rainfall beginning today, driven by a low pressure trough linked to cold air moving down from the north. The forecast disruption comes at a particularly inconvenient time for the sprawling southern metropolis, with heavy traffic already choking streets around Tan Son Nhat airport even before the worst of the rainfall arrives. Meteorological officials have attributed this rain event to the interaction between northern cold air and existing low pressure conditions across the region, a weather pattern that has historically produced significant flooding…