VIETNAM TODAY

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang has asked ministries, sectors and localities to promptly implement solutions to strengthen foreign investment attraction, according to a document released by the Government Office.

Nearly 200 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, were stranded on a beach in western Indonesia Sunday after local authorities said they would not accept the new arrivals, AFP witnessed.

The Hue International Music Week 2023 officially opened on December 8 in Ngo Mon Square of the Hue Citadel in the central province of Thua Thien Hue.

Doctors from the Ho Chi Minh-based Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine have provided free health check-ups and medicines for disadvantaged Vietnamese and locals living in Khammouane during a programme in the central Lao province from December 5-10.

China’s Sichuan Airlines started operating the first flight from Sichuan’s Chengdu City to Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Friday.

Vi Thi Anh spent half a decade doing monotonous low-paid work in industrial hubs near Vietnam's capital Hanoi, assembling mobile phones for global electronics companies including Samsung.

Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue had a meeting with Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin in Bangkok on December 8 as part of his ongoing official visit to Thailand.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Belarusian counterpart Roman Golovchenko witnessed the signing and handing over of co-operation documents between the two countries on the morning of December 8 after the conclusion of their talks.

A poor elderly ill couple in the northern province of Bac Kan will have a new home thanks to Dantri readers.

Hanoi has approved the planning of a second airport with the construction expected to be started in 2040 and completed in 2050.

Nearly three million people have used the Lao Cai-Hekou International Border Gate since early this year, including tens of thousands of Vietnamese tourists who have visited Yunnan Province.

The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued a decision promulgating a training and certificate granting programme for foreigners teaching English language at foreign language and information technology centres in Vietnam.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines opened a direct flight service between Ho Chi Minh City and the Australian city of Perth on the early morning of December 8.

Many markets in Hanoi have been abandoned.

Direct flights between the southern central province of Binh Dinh and South Korea will be reopened following a four-year suspension.

An explosion at a toy shop in the northern province of Ninh Binh on Thursday afternoon left two people dead.

The central city of Danang will hold a Christmas-themed market with 60 stalls on December 8-12 in Ngu Hanh Son District.

Asian markets mostly rose Friday as traders tried to track a Wall Street rally ahead of crucial US jobs data, while Tokyo took a hit from an extended yen rally on bets Japan will drop its ultra-loose monetary policy.

Some 11 fishing boats were burnt in a fire at a shipbuilding yard in the southern province of Phan Thiet on Thursday afternoon.