VIETNAM TODAY

“Children of the Mist”, a documentary film by Ha Le Diem, has been included into the shortlist of the top 15 documentary films advanced in the Documentary Feature Film category of the 95th Academy Awards (2023 Oscar).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has suggested Samsung expand its investment activities, considering Vietnam an important base, and a global strategy for developing key products to the international market.

The north and northern central regions are forecast to see more strong cold spells in the first two months of 2023, which will cause temperatures to plunge, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Vietnam and Indonesia have agreed to lift two-way trade to 15 billion USD or above before 2028, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo told the press following their talks in Jakarta on December 22.

The US Embassy in Vietnam has announced the Fulbright Vietnamese Student Scholarship Programme for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The southern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to see a series of high tides on December 24-26, the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting reported.

Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper has just completed a new kindergarten in a remote mountainous district of Yen Bai Province.

The Vietnamese traffic police have fined up to 40,000 drivers nationwide for excessive blood alcohol levels between November 15 and December 14.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has set a target of welcoming 110 million tourists including 8 million international visitors, earning revenues of VND650 trillion (USD27.08 billion) in 2023.

The northern province of Bac Giang has planned to build 13 golf courses by 2030 and a vision until 2050, said Duong Van Thai, the provincial party secretary.

The Investigation Security Agency under the Ministry of Public Security has decided to arrest and launch criminal proceedings against Vice Chairman of the Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung on charge of receiving bribes.

Vietnam bagged a record-high of around USD50 million from durian exports to China in October this year, up 4,120 percent on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Hai Ba Trung pedestrian street project in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue’s Hue City is behind schedule due to its stagnant implementation.

Ngoc Chau, a Vietnamese representative at Miss Universe 2022, unveiled her outfit for the upcoming national costume segment of the global pageant which is set to get underway in the United States in January next year.

At least five people were killed and over 70,000 rushed to evacuation centres in Malaysia after monsoon-triggered floods inundated the country's north, authorities said Wednesday.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his delegation on December 21 departed Hanoi for a state visit to Indonesia from December 21 to December 23 at the invitation of Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

More than 100 wooden artworks are being displayed at an installation in a pine forest in the central highlands tourist city of Dalat.

It is expected that the total Vietnamese aviation market will reach 55 million passengers by the end of this year, an increase of 3.7 times compared to the previous year, recovering by nearly 70 per cent compared to 2019,

Tran Van Trung, the winner of a logo design competition on Australian-Vietnamese relations, has received a prize and certificate from Australia’s Consul-General, Sarah Hooper.