VIETNAM TODAY

A market for the Tet Lunar New Year is being held in the central city of Danang’s Hai Chau District.

Vietnam’s GDP growth is expected to reach 8.02 percent this year, the highest rate between the 2011-2022 period, according to a report from the General Statistics Office.

HCM City Transport Department has just announced the pilot operation of 14 bus routes connecting Tan Son Nhat Airport to local urban and tourist centres.

Vietnam recorded year-on-year growth of 3.15% in the 2022 consumer price index (CPI) while core inflation increased 2.59%, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said on December 29.

As many as 10 people have died in a fire at a Cambodian hotel-casino on the border of Thailand, with photos showing groups desperately huddled on ledges as fierce flames surround them.

Vietnam Airlines has announced plans to add more than 500 flights, equivalent to 90,000 seats, in order to meet increasing travel demand during the upcoming Lunar New Year, the country’s biggest festival of the year.

The agriculture sector in 2022 posted a new record in the agro-forestry-fishery export value, hitting more than US$53.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9.3 per cent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

A hot-air balloon festival, the first of its kind to be held in Da Lat City in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong, kicked off on December 28 as part of the Da Lat flower festival 2022.

One person died during a highway pile-up involving hundreds of vehicles in central China, state broadcaster CCTV reported Wednesday, with images of the accident showing scenes of chaos.

The authorities of the central province of Quang Nam’s Hoi An City have kicked off a project to restore Chua Cau or the Japanese Covered Bridge.

HCM City Department of Transport has proposed banning sleeper buses from entering the centre of HCM City from January 10 next year.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 28 tasked the banking sector with ensuring monetary security and safety, as well as legitimate rights and interests of people, businesses and relevant subjects in 2023 and the following years.

The US Mission to Vietnam has announced the opening of the recruitment season for Vietnamese host institutions interested in hosting a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) during academic year 2023-2024.

A poor ill couple in the central province of Quang Binh are in desperate need of financial help to cover the costs of medical treatment and support their three small children.

The National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting has reported that the central region is witnessing torrential rain.

The southern coastal city of Nha Trang will expand by 8.8 square kilometres by 2040 when parts of Dien Khanh District are merged into the city.

A man in HCM City has just handed over a five-metre-long, 53-kilo Indian python to local forest rangers.

The General Department of State Reserves under the Ministry of Finance supplied 107,000 tonnes of rice to localities in 2022.

Hanoi has set a target to welcome about 22 million visitors next year, 17.6% higher than that of this year.