President Tran Dai Quang has urged the APEC Business Advisory Council in Vietnam to join hands with relevant agencies and organisations to thoroughly prepare for the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week slated for November in Da Nang. 

The fifth foreign affairs and defence strategic dialogue at the deputy ministerial level between Vietnam and Australia was organised in Canberra on September 27.

Streets in Hanoi’s Old Quarter are full of colours as the Mid-autumn Festival nears.

The event “Pattern Story” including an antique Thai fabrics showcase, talk, embroidery workshop and weaving experimentation will be held from September 30 through October 8 in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hungarian painter Anna-Maria Ory’s exhibition “West Lake” will be held at the Dong Phong Art Gallery, 3 Ly Dao Thanh Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi from October 1 to 30.

Views among Vietnamese consumers towards brands, both local and foreign, continue to change over time.

 Nominations for the 2017 Golden Lotus Bud Awards have been announced for three categories - short films, teen films and documentaries.

 Central Quang Binh Province officials today began clearing an abandoned warehouse storing toxic chemicals that was discovered after typhoon Doksuri swept through the locality in mid-September.

 Some four to five storms and tropical depressions are forecast to appear on the East Sea from October to this year-end, according to the National Hydrometeorological Forecast Centre.

With limited manufacturing capability, Vietnam has to import 55 percent of drugs it needs every year.

Developing sustainable tourism in combination with preserving and promoting national cultural values, and protecting landscapes and the environment is among targets set in Vietnam’s master plan on tourism development by 2020, with vision to 2030.

 HCMC will soon open seven more waterway routes and implement projects to build wharfs and boat stops to continue developing waterway tourism.

Many high-skilled craftsmen in Phu Binh Parish in District 11 have tried to preserve the 50-year-old traditional lantern making village. 

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with foreign diplomats in Vietnam attending the Conference on Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Development of the Mekong Delta in Can Tho on September 27, calling for more support from foreign countries for the delta. 

 An exhibition featuring more than 1,000 ancient artefacts of Oc Eo culture will be displayed in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang from September 29-October 30.

Trang An landscape complex has met the criteria of UNESCO on outstanding universal values of World Heritage, for this reason, the complex has been officially recognised as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

The Vietnamese government has begun conducting an inspection of the Ministry of Health for granting licences to the drug company VN Pharma to import and then distribute counterfeit cancer medication.

 The World Economic Forum’s latest Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) presents a mixed picture for East Asia and the Pacific, with big gains by Vietnam, Indonesia, and Brunei Darussalam and demotions for some others.

 In the race for market share between traditional taxies and Uber and Grab, along with Vinasun, Mai Linh Group also saw a decrease in employees and net revenue in the first half of this year, according to newswire Vnexpress.

 Vingroup officially appointed James B. Deluca, the former executive vice president of General Motors’ (GM) global manufacturing operations, as CEO of VinFast on Monday.

  State capital at the two brewers, Sai Gon Alcohol-Beer-Beverage JSC (Sabeco) and Ha Noi Alcohol-Beer-Beverage JSC (Habeco), may soon be transferred to the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC).

 Local firms are demonstrating their strength in winning hearts of Vietnamese consumers in e-commerce, an interactive E-commerce study conducted by iPrice has revealed.

 Inspectors in the southern province of Kien Giang have revealed various violations in land management by the leaders of Phu Quoc Island District.

The Ministry of Public Security has announced the arrest of three officers of OceanBank Hai Phong branch for their involvement in an alleged fraud that caused total losses of $17.63 million from its clients.

 The Hanoi-based Saint Paul Hospital has successfully performed two kidney transplants on Monday, bringing the hospital’s total kidney transplants to 23 since the first operation in December 2013.