People’s credit funds need to be restructured to provide proper support to rural and agricultural businesses.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s Traffic Safety Committee and Transport Department has said it plans a series of strong measures in order to reduce traffic jams.

 The practice of ‘wife catching’ is a longstanding tradition. However, the tradition has a new obstacle: camera phones.

 Early this month, the government issued Resolution 19 on the continued improvement of Vietnam’s business climate and economic competitiveness for 2017, with a vision to 2020.

 Le Trong Hoang won a gold medal at the Thailand Open International Jujitsu Tournament 2017 held February 17-19 in Bangkok.

 Around 350kg of ivory hidden in a shipping container has been seized in Vietnam, an official said today (Feb. 21), the first major bust of the illegally-trafficked product this year.

 The central coastal city’s high-tech park has attracted six projects valued at US$180 million from two Japanese and four domestic investors, said the head of the park management board, Phung Tan Viet.

Huawei Technologiesannounced that it will spend US$2 million for corporate social responsibility programmes in Viet Nam, which mainly focuses on training and developing ICT human resources of the country between 2017 and 2019.

 The Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, one of the country’s four largest State-owned commercial banks, plans to open subsidiaries in Laos and Cambodia this year, a bank official has said.

 Viet Nam’s export value for leather and footwear gained stable growth every year during the 2011-16 period to reach US$57.5 billion in total.

 A tour inside a home facility Dai Hoang village, in the northern province of Ha Nam, that cooks and sells the local renowed braised fish on a large scale.

The first-ever Hanoi Mardi Gras Festival, which aims to highlight and celebrate the city’s LGBT community, will hold its main celebration March 24 at the Australian Embassy.

 The Ministry of Defence on February 21 signed the minutes on the handover of nearly 20 hectares of military land at Tan Son Nhat International Airport to the Transport Ministry to enable the airport expansion.

 Vietnam and Israel should promote cooperation in technology transfer and research & development, said President Tran Dai Quang at a reception for Chairman of the IMI Systems Ltd from Israel Yitzhak Aharonovitch in Hanoi on February 21.

More than 100 delegates from 21 APEC member economies, APEC financial officials, and experts from a number of international financial organisations attended a seminar on disaster risk financing and insurance policies in Nha Trang.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam and Russia’s Federal Council to continue all-level delegation exchanges and diversify channels of cooperation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A small stall auctioning origami works like flower vases, dinosaurs and bugs attracted visitors to the Viet Nam-Japan Cultural and Commercial Festival held in Can Tho City recently.

 France will cull a further 600,000 ducks as part of efforts to prevent a spread of the H5N8 bird flu virus, the country's farming minister Stephane Le Foll said on Tuesday.

Vietnam’s shrimp has experienced many highs and lows in the last 10 years, but it may see more stable growth in the future. Recently, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc decided that Vietnam would aim to become a major shrimp production base fir the world.

The first train of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway has been installed safely on the track, the Railway Projects Management Unit (under the Ministry of Transport) announced early Tuesday.

 Wide range of customs issues tabled at APEC meeting, Footwear exports tend to rise from midyear, Barriers challenge Vietnam investors in Laos, Cambodia, Ministry told to seek ways to catch up with new industrial revolution

 HCM City’s authorities want to draw int’l tourists to Dam Sen Park, Patrols increased in Chu Mom Ray National Park to protect wildlife, APEC 2017: anti-illegal logging group convenes session

With unique architecture, Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica and St. Joseph's Cathedral in Hanoi are attractive tourist destinations across the country.

The northern mountainous province of Ha Giang attracts tourists to its cool climate and pristine natural landscape.

Visitors to Ninh Binh these days will have an opportunity to enjoy buckwheat flowers blooming in Thung Nham Bird Park in Ninh Hai Commune, Hoa Ly District.