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A total of 37 international delegations grouping 229 people have confirmed their attendance at the 8th Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival slated for March 10 – 14 in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, said the provincial Department

The Danang International Fireworks Festival will be resumed in June after a three-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Stocks were mixed in Asia on Thursday after the previous day's rally but trading was subdued as Federal Reserve interest rate hike worries returned to the agenda with two top officials warning more tightening will be needed to slay inflation.

Politburo member and permanent member of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee Vo Van Thuong pledged to fulfil assigned tasks after he was elected at an extraordinary session of the National Assembly in Hanoi on March 2 with

Vietnam received 1.80 million foreign tourists in the first two months of this year, nearly 25 percent of the year's target of 8 million, according to the latest report from the General Statistics Office.

As many as 51,400 Vietnamese enterprises closed their doors in the first two months of this year, up 14.5 percent on-year.

The 15th National Assembly (NA) will convene the fourth extraordinary session on March 2 to make a decision on the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The Ministry of Transport has agreed to a Vietnam Expressway Corporation’s proposal to expand the HCM City-Long Thanh Highway.

Fuel prices were again slightly reduced in the latest adjustment made by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday.

A US war veteran will arrive in Vietnam this weekend to return a wartime diary to a Vietnamese family in the central province of Ha Tinh this weekend, according to local authorities.

The Ministry of Health sent a telegram on March 1 to various chairman of People's Committees at municipal and provincial levels regarding drastic measures aimed at preventing the H5N1 avian influenza from potentially spreading from poultry to humans.

Two secondary schools in HCM City have seen a surge among students who are facing respiratory problems over the recent days.

Hanoi People's Committee has approved a plan to turn a major student dormitory project which has faced long construction delays into a social housing project.

The Asian Development Bank and Monsoon Wind Power Company signed a $682.55 million non-recourse project financing package to build a 600-megawatt wind power plant in Lao to export power to Vietnam.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism and the Vietnam Golf Tourism Association jointly launch the golf tour service to promote the new product in the city.

Nearly 500 pigs have died of starvation in the northern province of Bac Giang as local residents prevented the transportation of feed as a protest against the farm’s pollution.

Japan's biggest advertising agency and five other companies were indicted on Tuesday for allegedly violating an anti-monopoly law, in a corruption scandal over bid-rigging during the Tokyo Olympics.

Philippe Troussier, the newly appointed head coach of Vietnam’s national and U23 football teams, has announced an initial squad of 41 players for the upcoming SEA Games which will be held in Cambodia in May.

A Philippine fuel tanker partially sank in the country's waters on Tuesday, authorities said, as they tried to contain a diesel spill stretching several kilometres.