The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced that the Via Ba Chua Xu festival in An Giang Province will be selected to be Vietnam’s nomination in 2024 for UNESCO's recognition as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) will inspect accommodation services at star-rated hotels in some localities from June to October this year.

Repair has been finished on two of the five broken undersea cables linking Vietnam with the world, namely Intra Asia (IA) and SMW3, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC).

PM Pham Minh Chinh to attend expanded G7 Summit in Japan

A walking route on the rampart of the Hue Imperial Citadel in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has been temporarily shut after being graffitied.

The HCMC Department of Tourism has proposed that the City Hall be opened to tourists on public holidays in the upcoming time.

South Korean singer-songwriter Paul Kim recently collaborated with Vietnamese singers in Eye Contact Live, a famous YouTube show featuring music performances on the streets across Vietnam.

The HCM City People’s Court on Tuesday (May 16) sentenced two men from Da Nang, Ho Ngoc Tai, 34, and Tran Ngoc Hoang, 40, to life imprisonment for stealing cryptocurrency worth more than VNĐ37 billion (US$1.5 million).

Vietnam imported 3.26 million tonnes of oil and petrol worth around US$2.77 billion during the first four months this year, down 4.8% in volume and 16.3% in value year on year, reported the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Vietnamese students have won five awards in their maiden appearance at the VEX Robotics World Championship held in Texas, the United States.

Three Vietnamese dishes have been listed among the top 10 Best Rated Southeast Asian Meat Dishes, as compiled by renowned international food magazine TasteAtlas.

Vietnam’s logistics industry is gaining recognition in the global market, with growing expectations that it will emerge as a “rising star” in Asia.

President Vo Van Thuong has signed a decision approving the agreement on mutual judicial assistance in civil matters between Vietnam and Thailand.

After a decade, Vietnam’s first remote sensing satellite, the VNREDSat-1, has completed 53,000 rounds around the Earth, totaling 2.4 billion km.

U22 Vietnam beat U22 Myanmar 3-1 on May 16, bringing home bronze in the men’s football at the 32nd SEA Games in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Vietnamese athletes won 12 more gold medals on May 16, the last official competition day of the 32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 32) which is taking place in Cambodia.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), tea exports in the first four months of this year reached 30,000 tonnes, worth 50 million USD, down 4.8% in volume and 5.8% in value compared to the same period last year.

A Vietnam Week has opened in St. Petersburg with a series of culture, sports and business activities aiming to strengthen friendship and cooperation between the Russian city and Vietnam.

After three years of the La Nina weather pattern which is the other phase of ENSO, the El Nino phenomenon is likely to return in Vietnam in late May or early June, with a probability of up to 80%, and this phenomenon may last into early 2024.

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) continues to support a luxury tax on online games, though other ministries believe that such a tax will discourage the development of the industry.

Many hydroelectric reservoirs are experiencing critically low water levels while the hot summer season has just begun. The power sector has urgently suggested measures to cut down and save electricity during the challenging summer of 2023.

The Telecommunications Authority informed that only 20 percent of 1.15 million mobile subscribers that have their SIM card locked have come to certify their information so far. After May 15, nearly 1 million SIM cards will be retrieved.

Decisive action taken by Vietnam’s central bank on restructuring failing banks signifies a considerable stride towards revamping and fostering a sound financial landscape.

In Nùng tradition, silver is a sacred material thought to possess talismanic qualities that can exorcise evil, prevent "poisonous winds", protect health, bring happiness, as well as protect the soul.

Thanked to cultural interferences, Kinh, Hoa and Khmer ethic groups have created three extremely attractive cakes with ingredients mainly from white radish, wheat flour, rice flour, pork and shrimp.