Based on its 2017 success, HCM City aims to attract between seven and eight million international visitors and a whopping 29 million domestic visitors in 2018.

 The implementation of tariff reduction to zero per cent under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) from January 1, is an obsession with the Vietnamese sugar industry.

 The consumer price index (CPI) in January rose by 0.51 per cent over the previous month and 2.65 per cent over the same month last year.

 The number of firms using e-invoice has increased significantly in recent years due to its convenience and cost effectiveness.

 Authorities in central Quang Binh Province last Friday prosecuted two men for killing the goat-antelope Indochinese serow, which is listed as a near threatened species by the IUCN.

 A series of cultural and sports activities will be featured during the fifth Japan – Viet Nam Festival, which will kick off today at the September 23 Park in HCM City’s District 1.

The life of Cuban people is reflected truthfully and colourfully through the lens of Italian photographer Fulvio Bugani. 

 The HCM City Fire and Rescue Police Department and the Sài Gòn Water Supply Corporation will install 11,000 more fire hydrants by 2025 after being instructed to do so by the People’s Committee at a conference on fire hydrant management on Thursday.

Nguyen Thi Hong Thuong, 33, runs a large ginseng garden with more than 600 plants and many other traditional herbal medicine plants in Tra Cang Commune in Nam Tra My District in the central province of Quang Nam.

HCM City’s Science and Technology Department plans to launch a Science and Technology Development Fund while seeking to focus State science and technology organisations on activities relevant to the market and wean them off public funds in 2018.

 More Americans are seeking medical care for flu than at any time since the "swine" pandemic of nearly a decade ago, say US health officials.

Just a short time after thaituancoin, a cryptocurrency trading floor, shut down, another appeared calling for people’s contributions. 

 The courage and passion of Vietnamese U23 players seemed to melt the snow, OSEN, a news website based in the Republic of Korea commented on the final between Vietnam and Uzbekistan in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted Vietnam’s significant achievements in 2017 in an article published in a special issue titled “The Year Ahead 2018: Hope Against Rage” of the international media organisation Project Syndicate.

 The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched a project on January 26 on flood-based livelihoods in support of the water storage strategy in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.

 The first container train from Russia to Vietnam has recently arrived at Yen Vien station in Hanoi.

 Prosecutors in Cambodia have charged 10 foreigners, including five Britons, with producing pornographic images.

 Eight survivors from a ferry missing in the Kiribati archipelago have been rescued in the Pacific Ocean.

A cold wave which hit the northern region on January 28 has lowered temperatures in the northern and northern central localities down to around 10 degrees Celsius. The cold snap is expected to last for the next 10 days. 

 Vietnamese stocks are expected to rise further on expectations of positive corporate earnings reports from the financial-banking sector and a strong inflow of foreign investment, analysts said.