It is Vietnam’s consistent policy to take Russia as one of the most important and reliable partners of Vietnam, Party Chief Nguyen Phu Trong reiterated during his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi city on September 6.

 A man in Hanoi with a special passion for reptiles is raising and living with 30 snakes from around the world.

 As the Mid-Autumn Festival nears, many streets in Hanoi’s city centre have been illegally used by mooncake stalls.

 The Ministry of Finance has proposed an increase in the registration fees for pickup trucks and vans with carriage capacities of less than 1,500kg and fewer than five seats in order to ensure fairness for cars with fewer than nine seats.

 Viet Nam continued to lead the ASEAN Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rankings in August, despite a slower improvement in its goods-producing sector, Nikkei’s IHS Markit reported on Tuesday.

 Air pollution in HCM City caused by vehicles has become even more serious than the level of pollution emitted by industrial zones, environmental experts say.

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 Since its inception, the Saigon Hi-Tech Park has become an incubator for innovation and a centre for technology transfer in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern region.

 Da Nang city in central Vietnam is the most popular summer vacation destination of tourists from the Republic of Korea this year, a shift from last year’s preference for Japanese cities.

The show, Tam Hon Lang Viet or “the soul of the Vietnamese countryside”, vividly depicts the everyday activities of countryside people in the north, from early morning flute sounds to the noisiness of a rural evening marketplace.  

 VKFrontier Co., a cosmetics company of the Republic of Korea, has announced its a sponsor package worth 12,000 USD for Vietnamese athletes who will compete at the upcoming 2018 Asian Para Games in Indonesia, which begin in October.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition by Vietnamese surrealist artists will take place on Thursday in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In a song performed by saxophonists Quyen Van Minh, Quyen Thien Dac and Tran Manh Tuan, diva Thanh Lam sings: “When you send your love to the soil, you will have trees weighed down with fruits”. 

 The northern coastal province of Quang Ninh has taken measures to improve the quality of the fleet of tourist ships operating on Ha Long Bay – a UNESCO-recognised World Heritage Site.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Offroad Cup is scheduled to be held on September 29 and 30 with the participation of 80 teams.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese film about arranged marriage and forbidden love will have its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Friday.

 Many provinces and cities have licensed projects worth billions of US dollars through their investment forums this year. But experts said the key issue remains how to push these projects from the planning to the action stage.

 Private higher education plays an important role in promoting human resource quality, however, policies to develop private universities still face obstacles. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2018-19 schoolyear already started on Wednesday across the country, but a shortage of textbooks for the first, sixth and tenth grades is still reported in some major cities.

The Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA) and Japan’s Industrial Science and Technology and Environment Bureau signed an agreement on September 4 to promote cooperation in human resources development in the field of pollution control in Vietnam.