The Ministry of Transport and the Australian Government on Friday signed an agreement to launch Aus4Transport, a US$24 million programme for the development of transport projects in Viet Nam.

Reporters from several member states of the International Organisation of the Francophonie, including Vietnam, have a chance to experience the 2018 Winter Olympics taking place in Gangneung, the Republic of Korea from February 9-25.

 Vietnam’s coffee exports are expected to rise in 2018 thanks to projected annual increases of 7.1 percent for domestic yield and 1.3 percent for global consumption in 2017-18 crop.

 The Ho Dynasty Citadel, a World Cultural Heritage Site site in the central province of Thanh Hoa, will offer free entrance to both domestic and foreign tourists during February 15 – 17 or the first three days of the Lunar New Year. 

The UK Space Agency's International Partnership Programme (IPP) allocates 6 million GBP for Vietnam to build an early warning system of dengue fever outbreaks, said UK Science Minister Sam Gyimah.

The HCM City People’s Procuracy on February 9 proposed life imprisonment for Huynh Thi Huyen Nhu, former deputy chief of the Risk Management Section of VietinBank’s HCM City branch, for “swindling to appropriate assets.”

Following are a couple of places worth visiting during the Lunar New Year (Tet), Vietnam’s biggest and longest holiday.

Streets leading to Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Saigon Railway Station, Mien Dong and Mien Tay coach stations have been overloaded with traffic jam prolonging in HCMC.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship China 2018 recorded a historic high in television viewership ratings and social media engagement in Vietnam as the nation took on Uzbekistan in the momentous final on January 27.

 In January 2018, Crossbow Labs has issued the PCI DSS v3.2 certificate to CMC Telecom, Vietnam’s first and unique Data Centre, for meeting the latest security requirements.

Yellow apricot trees are more expensive this year, said local traders at Van Phuc flower market in Ha Dong district, Hanoi.

Vietnamese designer Audrey Nguyen has been invited to present her latest designs at the prestigious New York Fashion Week, scheduled for February 17 in the US.

Thuy Dung, Mau Thuy, Diem My and Will 365 have made a video clip of themselves in Ao Dai (Vietnamese traditional dress), sending best wishes to Vietnamese people on the occasion of Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

 Two locations in Vietnam – Sapa and Hoi An towns – have been named among the top ten places to visit in Southeast Asia in 2018, as selected by the readers of the UK-based travel website Rough Guides.

There has been an increase in the number of foreign tourists arriving that has coincided with the Lunar New Year in Vietnam.

The lack of a common voice among managers, the changes in business strategies, and the weak role on the board of directors are some of the reasons foreign shareholders have left Vietnamese banks.

 Domestic commercial banks on Thursday continued devaluing the US dollar against the Vietnamese dong for the second consecutive session, despite a rise of the greenback in the global market.

 Credit is forecast to accelerate from the end of the first quarter this year to maintain the same growth rate as 2017.

 Trade promotion in Viet Nam is facing many difficulties as many importers, such as the US, China, Japan and the European Union, were now protecting their own farm production.

 State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) made a net cash injection of VND13 trillion (US$572.9 million) into the economy in the past week to support the liquidity of commercial banks.