The French Embassy in Vietnam, in collaboration with the French cultural center L’Espace, will organize a French festival at Ly Thai To Square in Hanoi from January 10 to 12, 2020.

Vietnam’s cashew exports in 2019 are expected to top US$3.6 billion, according to the Viet Nam Cashew Association (Vinacas).

The country’s trade surplus reached a record high of US$9.9 billion in 2019, the General Statistics Office’s monthly report has revealed.

Fitch Ratings has assigned a first-time long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating (IDR) of 'BB' and long-term local-currency IDR of 'BBB' to ANZ Bank Vietnam Limited (ANZV).

2019 has been a good year for the banking sector. Most commercial banks performed well with profit results exceeding the targets set earlier in the year.

Vietnam’s wood exports this year are set to reach up to US$11.5 billion, exceeding the industry’s own target of $10.5 billion, a 20 per cent increase compared to last year, according to the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has proposed fines of between VND20 million (US$876) and VND50 million for the act of printing fraudulent invoices.

The musical drama Ngẫm Kiều (Song of Kiều), a production based on the 18th-century Vietnamese epic poem Truyện Kiều (The Tale of Kiều), will be staged on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in HCM City. 

The most outstanding event in 2019 is Vietnam’s completion of the third cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) with very positive results.

Artworks in various genres and materials depicting the beauty of nature when the season changes are on display at an exhibition in Hanoi.

Six men were sentenced to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 22-year-old girl in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien on Saturday.

The Ministry of Public Security will assign 500 students from the People’s Police Academy to direct traffic before, during and after the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.

A cold spell is expected to hit the northern region at the start of the new year, bringing rain and lowering temperatures.

Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has officially announced ten outstanding events in 2019 in economic field, society, culture, national defense and security and diplomacy.

Fake news on the internet is posing major challenges to Vietnam’s national construction and defense destabilizing national politics, and eroding people’s trust in the Party. Government agencies are taking steps to deal with this fake news.

The achievements of Vietnamese beauty queens throughout the year have earned the country a total of 386 points according to Missosology’s global beauty rankings, leaving the country in eighth position.

The rapid growth of the swift-breeding industry across the country could lead to negative effects if there is no long-term development plan, according to Ha Thuy Hanh, deputy director of the National Agriculture Extension.

The number of unemployed workers with bachelor’s degree is four times higher than the number of unemployed workers who have graduated from junior college and intermediate school.

Despite being hailed as a high-income sector with massive potential, IT continues to face shortages and a weak labour force that requires comprehensive changes through earlier education and training.

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