VIETNAM TODAY

Many apartments in decade-old buildings in Hanoi are attracting customers due to housing supply shortages.

HCM City will ban vehicles from the city centre on December 31 to serve the firework displays for the New Year.

Average life expectancy in Vietnam has been on the rise with women having longer life expectancy than men, according to the local Ministry of Health.

Vietnam’s stock market is set to grow in a stable, safe, healthy, effective and sustainable fashion under a freshly-approved strategy.

Police in the northern province of Quang Ninh have just seized 28 wild animals which were being illegally transported to China.

Nearly 400 Vietnamese workers have been repatriated after escaping conflict zones in Myanmar.

HCM City authorities want to increase the number of firework display locations for the coming Tet Lunar New Year’s Eve to eight.

Reuters on December 28 published an article on Vietnam’s “Bamboo diplomacy”, highlighting the country's increasingly dynamic foreign policy approach and its most important diplomatic agreements over the last 12 months.

About 12.6 million international tourists have visited Vietnam this year, a 3.4-fold rise from 2022, surpassing the target of 8 million set earlier, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported on December 29.

The headquarters of the HCM City People’s Committee will be opened to welcome visitors during the new year holiday.

Ho Thi Truc Mai was among three first-grade students of the first primary class which has just been opened on Con Co Island District in the central province of Quang Tri.

As many as 10 tonnes of dead animal parts confiscated from a smuggling case have been destroyed in the central province of Quang Nam.

Vietnam’s consumer price index in 2023 is estimated to rise 3.25% year-on-year, meeting the target set by the National Assembly (NA), the General Statistics Office reported on December 29.

The highest bonus for the coming Tet Lunar New Year in Hanoi will be around VND205 million (USD8,471), down from VND400 million last Tet.

Vietnam’s gross domestic product growth rate is estimated at 5.05% in 2023, the General Statistics Office announced on December 29.

The HCM City Department of Tourism and authorities in District 8 will pilot the purchase of all flowers and bonsai that traders are unable to sell during the coming Tet Lunar New Year.

Another pangolin has successfully given birth at the Saigon Zoo in HCM City.

HCM City is making preparations for setting up Nguyen Hue Flower Street to welcome the coming Tet Lunar New Year.

Asian stocks opened cautiously on Friday, largely continuing an end-of-year rally that has been boosted by investors' expectations of a US Federal Reserve rate cut as early as March.