The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is making extra effort to realise the target of welcoming five million foreign visitors amid a decline in the number of tourists from China and Russia.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Party and Government officials on Saturday paid tribute to late President Ho Chi Minh and heroic martyrs in the central province of Nghe An, as Vietnam’s War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27) approaches.

Vietnam will send a young but strong team of athletes to compete at the World Pencak Silat Championship 2022 in Melaka, Malaysia.

The HCMC government has set a target of building 93,000 new social homes in the next 10 years, creating good business opportunities for many companies in the industry. However, there is a lot of work to be done to achieve the target.

Adopting strong credit risk management strategies and tools plays an important role in protecting businesses against customers failing to pay, experts said.

In An Giang Province, visitors can see attractive red sausages being dried in the sun in the yards of houses, a popular specialty in the Mekong Delta province. The Cham ethnic people in the province who created this delicacy call it “tung lo mo”.

Phan Hoang Thu, Miss Southeast Asia, felt both sad and funny when hearing from a singer that “In Vietnam, the fastest way to become an A-class star is to attend beauty contests.”

The demand for personnel in the IT sector continues to rise, with an increasingly strong rising recruitment serving post-pandemic business recovery and growth, according to a report on the Vietnamese labour market in the second quarter

The Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point (SPS Vietnam) announced three EU countries have sent warning against Vietnam’s noodles.

The country’s ambitious targets of wooing foreign investments this year are expected to be within reach, in defiance of uncertainties affecting global funding flows.

Many banks have so far not only closed their doors to real estate development borrowers but also restricted loans to home buyers.

The People’s Committee of Ha Giang and Fauna & Flora International (FFI) Vietnam on July 21 signed a memorandum of understanding on the conservation of the endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkey and flora species in this northernmost province

More than 50 professional theatre artists will perform in the national traditional theatre contest, Trần Hữu Trang Cải Lương Talented Performers 2022 in HCM City in September.

HCM City's iconic Turtle Lake (Ho Con Rua) has been identified by the local authority as so important, it needs to be preserved.

Five additional survivors of fishing vessel BTh 97478 TS, which sank at sea on July 10, were rescued on the morning of July 22 by a pass-by ship.

As the number of COVID-19 cases is increasing, experts have issued new warnings on the importance of preventive measures and vaccine boosters.

The Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports and local art troupes are organising several art programmes paying tribute to war invalids and martyrs on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Invalids and Fallen Soldiers’ Day (July 27, 1947-2022).

Local chess player Le Quang Liem secured the championship title in the Grandmaster Triathlon on July 22 at the Biel International Chess Festival 2022 in Switzerland.

There will also be meeting between foreign ministers of ASEAN and partner countries within the framework of ASEAN+1, ASEAN+3, the East Asia Summit (EAS), including the first ASEAN-UK Foreign Ministers’ Meeting

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed that land needs to be used in the right way to create value and jobs, and that real estate development must not be the priority.