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For the first time in Vietnam, classical music has been taken out of theatres and auditoriums to make it easier for the public to access at a classical music festival held in Da Lat city.

Authorities in the southern central province of Khanh Hoa held an inauguration ceremony on Wednesday for the Van Phong 1 BOT Thermal Power Plant with total capacity of over 1,432 MW.

Hundreds of hectares of land at the Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park are still left idle after 25 years of establishment.

Trains on the Nhon-Hanoi Train station metro lines have just been put on the last trial run period before official operation which is scheduled in July.

Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc chaired an investment promotion conference themed “Vietnam – Investment Destination” in Tokyo on March 12, which drew representatives from leading Vietnamese and Japanese financial institutions, banks, life insurance corporations, investment funds, and securities companies.

The national carrier Vietnam Airlines will open direct flights between Hanoi and Munich, one of the largest cities in Germany, starting from October 2024.

Authorities in the southern province of Kien Giang have asked fish farmers around the Phu Quoc International Cruise Ship Port project to remove their cages as the port will open later this month.

HCM City authorities have issued a decision to build 4,500 classrooms spanning from nursery to high school levels by 2025 to achieve the goal of 300 classrooms per ten thousand people.

Border guards at the Moc Bai international border gate in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh on March 12 received 15 Vietnamese citizens who had been rescued from forced labour in Cambodia.

The Foster Mother Programme, launched by the Vietnam Women's Union in October 2021, has changed the lives of thousands of needy children and orphans across the country.

Vietnam is ready to cooperate closely with other countries and international organizations to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, said Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan.

The Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) on March 12 released the Provincial Innovation Index 2023, the first of its kind so far.

Vietnam will soon open a tourism promotion office in Vientiane, Laos, in an effort to change the method of carrying out tourism promotion activities overseas, revealed Nguyen Trung Khanh, head of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

Airline watchdogs were on Tuesday investigating why a Boeing-made plane bound for New Zealand violently lost altitude mid-flight, injuring a host of terrified passengers.

The first-ever light show featuring a total of 200 drones will be held as a highlight of the opening ceremony of the Vietnam Tourism Year - Dien Bien 2024 and Ban (Bauhinia) Flower Festival in mid-March.

The Ministries of Natural Resources and Environment, and Industry and Trade, and the World Wide Fund for Nature in Vietnam have called on people to join hands in reducing carbon footprint, towards net zero emissions, in response to the

A couple from HCM City have just held their wedding in a cave in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

Tay Phuong Pagoda, a national special historical site in Hanoi's outlying Thach That District, has seriously deteriorated.

Asian markets mostly rose Tuesday following the previous day's sell-off, with focus on the release of US inflation data that could play a key role in the Federal Reserve's decision-making on cutting interest rates.