Rows of brightly coloured butterflies, flowers, animals and playing children now welcome passers-by through the streets of the village of Dan Phuong on the outskirts of Hanoi.

VN Air Traffic Management Corporation announced on Monday that it had conducted operational trials of the Distributed Multi-Nodal ATFM Operational Trail between Viet Nam and Singapore.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will complete the reduction of administrative procedures in the third quarter of the year, with two-thirds out of 443 being removed.

 This year’s professional national basketball tournament, sponsored by Jetstar, will be held from September 05 to December 03.

The Vietnamese feature film "The Way Station" was awarded the Certificate of Appreciation by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) last Friday.

The People’s Committee of Tay Ho (West Lake) District of Hanoi has reacted to the recent rumour related to filling up the West Lake for building hotels.

 Vietnam lost both its matches at the classification round of the Asian Women’s Senior Volleyball Championship being held in the Philippines.

Designer Do Trinh Hoai Nam’s ao dai (Vietnamese national dress) collection, called Golden Lotus, has been chosen for the first catwalk event at the 26th Couture Fashion Week New York.

 Capital movements across the Southeast Asian region have begun to take shape, evidenced by the growing interest in international investment.

 The expanding non-alcoholic drink segment has pitted domestic and foreign sector companies in a tight race to see who will ultimately control the country’s estimated US$4 billion market.

The development of high-tech agriculture in Vietnam remains sluggish due to unplanned and small-scale production, and is not commensurate with the country’s comparative advantages and efforts.

 Leaders of Cambodia hailed their country’s relations with Vietnam during separate meetings with Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man in Phnom Penh on August 14.

Vietnam will send seven young golfers, of average age 18, to take part in the upcoming Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Malaysia.

A red-shanked douc langur was handed over to the Cuc Phuong national park by forest rangers in Phu Loc district, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 14.

The Hanoi Railway Transport Joint Stock Company has successfully conducted a trial run of an international container train connecting China’s Guangzhou province and Hanoi’s Yen Vien town.

 The State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) had invested in 141 businesses as of July 31 with total State capital of $860.6 million among their combined charter capital of $4.18 billion.

 Lawmakers of Vietnam and Thailand should continue to share common viewpoints and support each other in issues of common concern at international and regional inter-parliamentary forums.

Several villas with European-style windows in the central coastal city of Nha Trang are a new check-in location for many Vietnamese young people.

HCM City, the country’s commercial hub, is a food paradise not only for Vietnamese but for people from all over the world, including tourists and diverse communities of expatriates 

VN’s exports of gems and precious metals drops, Equitisation plans of seven more SOEs receive approval in July, Thua Thien-Hue, Vietnam Airlines cooperate in tourism promotion, Mekong Delta set to focus on three national seafood products