(VOVWORLD) - Visitors to the Culture and Tourism Village of Vietnam Ethnic Groups on the outskirts of Hanoi are being treated to a festival highlighting distinctive customs, art performances, folk games, and traditional dishes of ethnic groups across Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Australia’s independent think tank Lowy Institute has spotlighted Vietnam’s economic restructuring, saying the country’s cautious and sequenced adoption of market institutions has brought more than two decades of impressive economic performance.

(VOVWORLD) - Japan’s use of official development assistance (ODA) on promoting its “Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy” is one of the highlights in Tokyo’s White Paper on Development Cooperation 2017.

(VOVWORLD) - The Trump administration will open its Embassy in Jerusalem in May, the State Department announced Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Tan Trao historical, cultural, and ecological site in Tuyen Quang province will be developed into a national tourism site under a master plan until 2030, recently approved by the Prime Minister.

(VOVWORLD) -Construction of Vietnam’s largest petrochemical complex started on Saturday in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

(VOVWORLD) - Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong held a meeting in Hanoi on Friday with diplomats representing ASEAN countries who came to extend New Year greetings to Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - The 2018 spring festival has opened on M’nong plateau to promote Dak Nong province’s tourism potential and typical products. 400 artisans, athletes, young people, and thousands of locals attend the festival.

(VOVWORLD) - Japan plans to use aid to developing countries to promote its "free and open Indo-Pacific" strategy, the government said Friday in an annual report on its official development assistance.

(VOVWORLD) - President Tran Dai Quang received outgoing Mozambique Ambassador to Vietnam Gamiliel Munguambe in Hanoi on Friday.