VIETNAM TODAY

HCM City has planned a variety of cultural and arts activities to welcome the coming Lunar New Year Holiday.

Indonesia aims to export natural gas to Vietnam starting 2026 from the Tuna offshore block located near the Indonesian and Vietnamese maritime border, according to Indonesian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Arifin Tasrif.

J-League 1 Football Club Yokohama has signed a two-year contract with Vietnamese football star Nguyen Cong Phuong to play for the 2023 season, Yokohama announced on December 25.

Due to a lack of knowledge about origin regulations, many Vietnamese firms have yet to optimise advantages from the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, which has been effective for two years and generated great benefits for both sides, according to insiders.

The HCM City will host its annual floating flower festival in District 8 to celebrate Tết holiday (Lunar New Year).

Asian stocks started on a positive note Monday, buoyed by gains on Wall Street last week although spiralling Covid-19 cases in China weighed on sentiment in thin holiday trade.

Christmas Day floods in the Philippines forced the evacuation of nearly 46,000 people from their homes, civil defence officials said Monday.

A delegation of the High Command of the Naval Region 2 carrying Tet gifts has just left for a visit to DK1 Platforms for the Tet Lunar New Year Festival.

2023 will be a year of forming and exploiting data to create new values, stated Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a meeting on December 25 to review one year of implementing a project on developing the application of

Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Nguyen Thi Ha, has just visited and given presents to people in Que Phong District in the central province of Nghe An.

Vietnamese automobiles imports increased sharply this year, with 163,333 cars worth over USD3.62 billion brought into the country as of December 15, surpassing the record figure of nearly 160,000 cars imported in 2021.

A transport infrastructure project costing VNĐ2.1 trillion (US$88.1 million) has been approved to increase the transport capacity of inland waterways in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, according to the Ministry of Transport.

A flight of Tigerair Taiwan, carrying 170 passengers from Taipei (China), landed at Da Nang International Airport in the central city of Da Nang on December 24 evening, marking the launch of the carrier’s first route to Vietnam.

Several foreign aid groups announced on Sunday they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the country's Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs to stop women staff from working.

Both foreign and domestic fintech firms are promoting connections with commercial banks to lend unsecured loans to individuals, and small and micro enterprises as demand for consumer and business loans at the end of the year is rising.

The number of Thai tourists visiting the country is on the rise amid many popular destinations reopening without restrictions, while a weaker currency against the baht is also supporting the outbound tourism market, according to Yuthasak Supasorn, director general

Rescuers were working Sunday to reach 18 people trapped underground after a cave-in at a gold mine in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state media reported.

Vietnam’s e-commerce revenue in 2022 maintained an increase of about 15% compared to last year, according to the Vietnam E-commerce Association.