The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong plans to invest 510.2 billion VND (22.35 million USD) in a project to preserve biodiversity in the province to 2020 with a vision to 2030.

 A delegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport (MoT) is visiting Geneva, Switzerland, from February 20-24 at the invitation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

 Listed automobile companies will face a challenging and volatile year in 2017 on policy changes and rising competition from imported products.

 Delegates attending a seminar in HCM City on Wednesday urged the Government to amend or revoke a decree on rice exports which they said impedes exports of the grain.

 The Government has issued an action programme to implement the policies on economic restructuring and building of a new growth model for the period between 2016 and 2020.

 Taxi firms are calling for fair competition with tech-based rivals Uber and Grab, which have seen a rapid development in the past two years in Viet Nam.

 Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Viet Nam reached US$3.4 billion in the first two months of the year, up 21.5 per cent, compared to the same period last year, the Foreign Investment Agency’s latest statistics has revealed.

 The National Table Tennis Championships is scheduled to kick off on June 10-18, the event’s organising board announced in a briefing on Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central island district of Ly Son plans to restore a whale skeleton and an exhibition centre for whale skeletons with an investment of VND10 billion (US$442.477).

 HCM City on Wednesday installed an automatic public toilet at 116 Nguyen Du Street in District 1.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 600 workers have been trained to serve in the 13-km long Cat Linh – Ha Dong Elevated Railway Project in Ha Noi.

 Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam lost in the men’s singles second round of the China F2 Men’s Futures tournament yesterday in Anning city.

 From the busy streets of Hanoi to the lush green mountains of Sapa here are the top 14 photos of Vietnam as selected by Fodor’s Travel and recently featured on its website.

 Nothing goes together like coffee and books. Reading in coffee shops is a favourite pastime of book lovers around the globe. Here are eight literary coffee shops in Hanoi that will feed both your mind and body.

About 200 km northwest of Hanoi, Moc Chau is one of the most pristine beautiful plateaus in the northern mountainous region.

 A 10-member Vietnam mixed team has arrived to participate in the 2017 Asian Cycling Championships that will take place February 26-March 2 at the Bahrain International Circuit.

 A deeply moving film debut by a promising director from Vietnam, Father and Son has been praised by foreign film critics as one of the best works from the Vietnamese cinema world in the past decade.

 Vietnamese budget airline Vietjet Air will start trading 300 million shares on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HoSE) on February 28 at VND90,000 (US$3.9) per share.

 The Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) will take drastic measures to recover around VND33 trillion (US$2.6 billion) of non-performing loans (NPLs) this year, VAMC chairman Nguyen Tien Dong said.

 The Government has issued an action programme to implement the policies on economic restructuring and building of a new growth model for the period between 2016 and 2020.

 For the first time Vietnamese doctors successfully performed a lung transplant from two living donors. 

 The festival has been an indispensable part of life in fishing villages in the city and is an important spiritual and cultural event, staged in the hope of winning favour with the sea god.

 There isn’t much room for pottery in the fast-paced modern world but for the residents of Phù Lãng ceramic village in Bac Ninh province, their products are proving not only popular but highly lucrative.

 The cherry – Yen Tu yellow apricot blossom festival is to be held in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh on March 11-15, the organising board said at a press conference on February 23. 

 Vietnam won a berth in the semi-finals of the Junior Davis Cup, Asia Oceania Pre-Qualifying Tournament in New Dehli, India on February 23.