Society

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his spouse chaired a welcome ceremony with the traditional Maori ritual for Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh and his spouse who are on an official visit to NZ from March 10-11.

More than 100 artists are performing at the Vietnam Classical Music Festival which opened in the UNESCO Creative Music City of Da Lat, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on March 10.

The death toll from flash flooding and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to 21, an official said Sunday, with six people still missing.

Cities and provinces across the country are focusing on social housing development as part of a national strategy to meet the growing needs of their residents.

Both Vietnam and New Zealand should bring into full play untapped cooperation areas, striving to soon raise their two-way trade turnover to US$2 billion from last year’s US$1.3 billion.

2024 will continue to be a challenging year for the leather and footwear industry but there are still many prospects to increase exports this year, according to Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag

Non-cash payment transactions increased by 63.3 percent in volume and 41.45 percent in value in January, compared to the same period last year, reported the State Bank of Vietnam.

A number of artworks by well-known Vietnamese painters were sold at high prices at an auction sale organized by Aguttes on March 7.

International cruise liner Celebrity Solstice docked at Phu My port in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on March 9, bringing around 3,000 tourists of various nationalities to the popular beach city of Vung Tau.

A high-speed ferry service connecting Vung Tau City and Con Dao Island in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau operated its first trip on March 9.

Authorities of Can Tho and a delegation from Germany’s Wernigerode city led by Mayor Tobias Kascha agreed to strengthen cooperation in various fields, with a focus on sustainable green tourism.

The capital of Hanoi has scrambled to stamp out new outbreaks of the hand-foot-mouth disease, with the number of infections increasing considerably.

The Police Investigation Agency of the Ministry of Public Security on March 8 prosecuted and detained two top leaders of Vinh Phuc province over bribery charges.

The key southern economic region remains an attractive destination for foreign investors with a series of foreign-invested projects licensed in the past two months of this year.

Approximately 12,000 households in Vietnam’s southernmost province of Ca Mau are grappling with a scarcity of clean water due to a prolonged drought.

Around 1,000 Vietnamese are expected to be sent to Australia to work annually from this year.

Vietnam will build 98 more air quality monitoring stations in all 63 cities and provinces across the country till 2030.

Many boat operators in the UNESCO heritage site of Halong Bay have complained about new higher fees which are about to be applied at the two international ports of Tuan Chau and Halong.