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Vietnam’s new visa policy, applicable from August 15, will help the country lure more business travellers from Japan in September, said the Japan External Trade Organisation Chief Representative in Ho Chi Minh City Nobuyuki Matsumoto.

Vietnam’s exports are set to recover in Q4, driven primarily by a bottoming out of the US inventory cycle, but also by an acceleration in the relocation of manufacturing from China to Vietnam.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a welcome ceremony in Hanoi on Monday morning for his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong who is on an official visit to Vietnam.

Asian markets rose Monday after Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell said officials would take a careful approach regarding interest rate hikes, while Chinese shares soared after the government cut the duty on trades.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and a delegation from Singapore came to visit Hoan Kiem Lake on Sunday evening after arriving in Hanoi earlier the same day for a three-day official visit to Vietnam.

A 19-year-old man in the southern central province of Binh Dinh who is facing acute myeloid leukaemia is in desperate need of support.

Fruit and vegetable exports during the past eight months stood at an estimated US$3.5 billion, up nearly 56% over the same period from last year, hitting a record high for the fruit and vegetable industry.

HCM City has a team of volunteers who specialise in escorting ambulances at rush hours to get patients to hospitals.

Bo Chinh ginseng growers in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue are facing losses because of widespread crop failure.

Vendors at many traditional markets in HCM City, in a bid to attract customers, have been offering discounts, selling online and accepting cashless payment.

More than a thousand people fled their homes as floods unleashed by Super Typhoon Saola swept through mainly rural villages in the northern Philippines, rescue officials said Sunday.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has officially entered the top 10 international airlines of 2023, according to the rankings conducted by Bounce, a US-based luggage storage service company that operates in over 1,000 cities worldwide.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and a delegation from Singapore arrived in Hanoi on August 27, beginning a three-day official visit to Vietnams at the invitation of his counterpart Pham Minh Chinh.

The UK Embassy in Vietnam has announced a new wave of capacity-building support for low carbon projects which have the potential to benefit communities across the Southeast Asian nation.

This year, Vietnam has suffered its longest streak of falling exports in more than a decade. However, there are concrete signs that Vietnam’s exports are set to recover in the fourth quarter driven by a bottoming out of the

Vietnam and Singapore are top important partners of each other in many fields from trade and investment to diplomacy, security and defence, said Dr Le Hong Hiep, a Senior Fellow at the Vietnam Studies Programme and the Regional Strategic

HCM City has run 21 more bus routes connecting to the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro line.

The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade will hold a Flash Sale Holiday on September 8-10, giving people a good chance to buy discounted branded products.

The online learning platform congdanso.edu.vn has attracted more than 15,100 people since its launch, and nearly 3,000 students and workers in industrial zones are guided in learning on the platform.