The Federal Minister for European and International Affairs of Austria Alexander Schallenberg will pay an official visit to Vietnam from April 16-18 at the invitation of Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.

The Ministry of Health on April 12 sent an urgent dispatch on strengthening the prevention and control of COVID-19 to the People's Committees of all 63 provinces and centrally-run cities.

The Asian Record Organisation has recognised nine Asian records for famous Vietnamese dishes/food groups and specialties nominated by the Vietnam Records Organisation (VietKings).

With 1,350 craft villages, including over 300 traditional handicraft villages, Hanoi capital city has abundant resources for the development of cultural industries throughout its metropolitan area.

The business community was happy to hear that the Prime Minister has released urgent instructions requesting ministries, branches and localities to quickly solve  problems that are obstructing enterprises’ operations.

A giant wood bas-relief depicting a pastoral landscape has recently wowed the public with its elaborate designs.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has pointed out violations made by cross-border platforms in the Vietnamese market. The breaches were found on TikTok, Facebook and YouTube.

Huu Lien Commune has recently attracted tourists for its peaceful and poetic scenery. This area has diverse terrains with high mountain ranges, poetic rivers gently flowing around the valley, and flat grasslands along the Dong Lam Steppe.

Large-scale farming will open up a new way of development, helping to remove bottlenecks in agricultural production, which is small and fragmented, thus making it difficult to organize production and apply mechanization.

Taking advantage of the many resources and good weather, tourism activities in many localities in the Southeast and the Mekong River Delta continue to prosper and build momentum.

Vietnam's agricultural exports to China are facing increasing difficulties due to tightening export requirements, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Cambodia, the host country of the 32nd SEA Games, will feature never-before-seen sports in previous events and the Vietnamese sports delegation will not only participate but aim to win medals too.

In June 2022, the Ministry of Public Security revealed that 60 per cent of first-time illegal drug users are aged between 15-25 and are mostly students.

The percentage of people aged above 15 who use e-cigarettes rose from 0.2 per cent in 2015 to 3.6 per cent in 2020.

Hoi An has decided to postpone collecting entry fees from tourists until it can draw up a plan that can receive wide support from the public.

Seeing that sensitive information leaks have been reported recently, SGGP Newspaper has conducted an interview with Deputy Head Trieu Manh Tung of the Department of Cyber Security and Hi-tech Crime Prevention (under the Public Security Ministry).

Fifty-two administrative units at district level and 1,037 administrative units at commune level have met criteria in natural area and population scale to be subject to rearrangement and merger in 2023-2025.

The latest preliminary check of the Authority of Information Security (AIS) under the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has found that at least 90 websites with content such as ads, card playing and gambling.

Policies needed to boost production linkage, localisation rate

Around 1.2 million mobile phone numbers blocked from making calls, sending text messages or use the Internet since March 31 will be deactivated if their data is not updated within four days.