Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous and financial hub in Vietnam, has planned to launch a variety of activities to welcome the start of 2024.

The first International Rice Festival will be held in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang from December 11 to 15, aiming to turn Vietnam into a high-quality rice producer in a green and sustainable direction.

The Vietnamese national men’s football team retained their leading position in Southeast Asia following their recent FIFA World Cup qualifiers, the world’s football governing body said in its latest rankings released on November 30.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Hanoi on December 1 for a two-day visit to co-host the 15th Meeting of the China-Vietnam Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation.

Vietnam’s e-commerce services have grown considerably at between 16% and 30% annually over the past few years, with market size likely to hit US$20.5 billion this year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

The Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) in Ho Chi Minh City will hold a French fashion film festival from December 5 to 7, featuring numerous documentaries about the fashion industry.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue held talks with his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Khuon Sudary after an official welcome ceremony for the Cambodian NA leader in Hanoi on December 1.

The regulations on fighting transfer pricing and preventing thin capitalization are not expected to have a big impact on foreign-invested enterprises. But it will cause difficulties for Vietnamese-owned enterprises.

Of 10 serious security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s products identified by the Authority of Information Security (AIS), three are being exploited.

One-hundred and seven thousand tonnes of sugar were assigned to eight traders.

HCMC to add more 4,000 ha of land for industrial production

A six-week-old girl in Hanoi has been diagnosed with whooping cough, the first case in the city this year.

Two Vietnamese players are invited to take part in Thailand’s futsal league, one of the best local tournaments in Asia.

Fashion model and movie actor Nguyen Quoc Tri is representing Vietnam at the Mister Tourism World 2023 in Brazil this week.

In recent years, information technology and telecommunications growth has impacted every field and everyone’s life, including children.

During long national holidays like April 30-May 1 (the South Liberation and May Day holiday) or National Independence Day on September 2, the number of arrivals did not see much improvement.

Glamour Universe Official, the world’s prestigious publication on beauty pageants, has selected Vietnamese representative Le Nguyen Ngoc Hang among the top 10 in its hot picks for the Miss Intercontinental 2023 contest.

As the nation’s top female badminton player, Nguyen Thuy Linh has returned to the world top 20 following the latest world rankings announced by the Badminton World Federation (BWF).

The world-famous classical ballet The Nutcracker will be back at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on December 8, 9 and 10 to welcome the Christmas season.

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia will host a joint border defense friendship exchange in mid-December 2023, a press briefing heard in Hanoi on December 1.

Ho Chi Minh City attracted more than 3 billion USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first 11 months of 2023, down 12.9% year-on-year, the city’s Statistics Office has announced.

Vietnamese firms and their Chinese peers inked 21 agreements and economic contracts in agro-forestry-fishery import and export, trade, logistics, and high-tech agriculture at a November 30 business networking forum held in Quang Ninh.

President’s speech at Japanese National Diet makes headlines

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) on November 30 launched a management support platform to assist agencies and organisations in ensuring safety of their information systems.

The Quang Tri People's Committee has recently issued a decision approving the selection of the investor for a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) airport construction project worth over 5.82 trillion VND (239.408 million USD).