Although the time is ripe for selling incense sticks, people do not see many of them in Le Minh Xuan incense-making village in HCM City.

The rice-wine making of the S’Tieng ethnic minority in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has been recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage in folk knowledge and traditional craft.

The Chinese side has yet to agree to restore a regular flight route with Vietnam due to concerns about Covid-19 pandemic developments.

The UK and Vietnam have a strong and growing bilateral trade relationship and share a strategic commitment to global trade, and the free flow of capital and investment.

Located in Bat Trang ancient pottery village, Hanoi, the Bat Trang Pottery Museum is not only a place to preserve the cultural values of the village but also a destination for visitors far and wide.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has made tremendous efforts to fulfil its tasks, contributing to the country’s economic targets for 2021. 

Diem My, a 10th grader at Le The Hieu High School in Quang Tri province, has won first prize at the 10th Youth Creativity Competition.

On the evening of January 20, American singer and musician John Legend performed at an event in Hanoi. He arrived in Vietnam on January 19 and did not have to be quarantined.

New regulations for domestic travellers

Solid waste classification at source and volume-based waste fee collection must be implemented by 2024, according to the roadmap of the new Environment Law which took effect on January 1, 2022.

Vietravel Airlines opens new route connecting HCM City and Quy Nhon

Vietnam is to focus on the development of 6G – the sixth generation standard currently under development for wireless communications technologies – in 2022.

Viettel once again claimed the top spot as Vietnam’s fastest mobile provider during the last quarter of 2021.

Over 15,500 licensed tour guides have been put out of work for more than two years due to the pandemic and many of them have decided to leave the tourism sector permanently to earn a living elsewhere.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has advanced at lightning speed over the past decade and has become the hot topic of many domestic and international seminars.

More than 30 antiques and documents bearing images of tigers are on display at the National Museum of Vietnamese History in downtown Hanoi.

Passengers, including children, wishing to fly on domestic routes are no longer required to undergo a COVID-19 test at the airport even when they have not received a single vaccine dose.

For the first time Vietnamese doctors at Cho Ray hospital in HCM City have successfully conducted a renal transplant with a kidney taken from a relative who has a different blood group.

2022 represents a special year for Vietnamese sports, particularly as the country will play host to the 31st SEA Games and send athletes to the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou (China).

Vietnam’s seafood industry is projected to enjoy strong growth in the 2021-2030 period thanks to the increasing per capita seafood consumption in the world.

Zen Monk Thich Nhat Hanh passed away at Tu Hieu pagoda in his birthplace Hue city, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, early January 22 aged 95.

When one door closes, another opens. The pandemic has caused serious consequences, but it also brings opportunities.

Vietnam has lost over 120,000 hectares of sugarcane in the 2016-21 period, a staggering 45 per cent decrease.

Before being appointed Deputy Minister of Public Security by the PM, Major General Nguyen Van Long, as Director of the C03 Agency, together with coworkers cracked a number of major corruption cases.

In the digital era, advanced technologies have wider implementations in various aspects. Many startup businesses in Vietnam have chosen technological products and services as their development direction and have achieved impressive results so far.