Curvalle Bernard Francois, a French citizen has become the 6 millionth foreign visitor to Vietnam this year
Tens of thousands of Vietnamese people poured out into the streets to join with Catholics and Protestants on Christmas Eve. In Hanoi, crowds of young people were flocking to the city centre the early evening, packing major streets and causing traffic to grind to a halt. A Christmas atmosphere prevailed at churches such around the capital...
Senior Party officials and leaders of mass organizations visited and extended Christmas greetings to Catholic and Protestant communities across the country. During a visit to the Hai Phong city Bishops’ Office, Vice President and Secretary General...
Vietnam today marked the 67th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army and the 22nd anniversary of National Resistance Day
National Tourism Year program until 2017 will generate momentum for Vietnam’s inbound and outbound tourism. Since 2002, the program has brought concrete socio-economic results to localities and...
The Vietnam Catholic Unity Committee held a get-together on Monday in Hanoi to mark Christmas 2011
The People’s Army newspaper today ran an editorial on the strength of national great unity to mark the 65th anniversary of Vietnam’s Resistance Day which falls on December...
Vietnam aims to have 80% of its businesses having their own websites to update information about their products and promotion activities while half of providers of water, electricity, telecommunications and...
The 17th ASEAN Transportation Ministers’ Meeting has opened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to gear up for the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015
Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha told reporters in Hanoi on Thursday that the commitment was delivered at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2011
Vietnam and the UN have released the 2011 Vietnam Industrial Competitiveness Report. The document says that in order to restructure the industrial sector, the Vietnamese government should focus on five key areas. These include re-thinking industrial policies and strategies...
The volume of overseas remittances to Vietnam is estimated to reach nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars this year, 1.6 billion USD more than last year. According to the Ministry of Labor...
Titled “Vietnam and the East Sea”, the 40-page publication covers comprehensive issues relating to Vietnam’s waters in the East Sea, Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoàng Sa-Paracel...
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has announced that Vietnamese tra fish has been listed in the “Moving towards Certification” category in some European countries
Ha Hung, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Minorities, said the Vietnamese government has implemented various measures and national target programs to ensure social equality for ethnic minority people
The two countries agree to double bilateral trade revenue to 5 billion USD next year and encourage more investment activities in border areas, particularly within the development triangle
International donors have pledged nearly 7.4 billion USD in official development assistance to Vietnam in 2012. The commitments were made at the Consultative Group Meeting in Hanoi on Tuesday. At...
The 17th Conference of the Parties, COP 17 to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change began its high-level segment in South Africa on Tuesday. The Vietnamese delegation, led...
A seminar entitled “Volunteering for Peace and Development” took place on Monday in Hanoi as part of activities to mark the International Volunteer Day which falls on December 5th....
Activities to mark the International Day of Persons with disabilities were held in Hanoi today. Nguyen Huy Ban, Secretary General of the Vietnam Association for People with Disabilities calls for support for people with disabilities...