Fireworks  teams from the UK, Australia and Italy will compete in the final night of the 2017 Da Nang International Fireworks Festival  on June 26, heard a  press conference on June 4. 

 Minister of Public Security To Lam had a meeting with Robert Kaliňák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of Slovakia, in Hanoi on June 3.

 Vietnam wishes to deepen strategic partnership with Japan for peace and prosperity in the region, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has told Japanese media agencies. 

 French photographer Réhahn Croquevielle will open his photo exhibition, The Ageless Beauty photography, at Da Nang’s Fine Arts Museum on June 6-18.

In Trung Phu 2 Village, Dien Minh Commune, Dien Ban District, Quang Nam Province, Central Vietnam, there is a house of bamboo almost a century old.

When imported, foreigners’ motorcycles are liable to excise tax, which will be calculated based on the taxed price and tax rate. 

Xoan singing is a kind of performing art, attached to cult of worshipping Hung Kings and performed by farmers growing wet rice in the midland areas, mainly in Phu Tho Province. 

Vietnamese goods have to go through many intermediaries to enter foreign supermarket chains. As a result, enterprises have to pay high costs to sell their goods, and cannot develop their brands. 

The Hanoi Opera House would be a copy of the Opera Garnier in Paris, though smaller, 2,600 square metres, one-third of the original.

 Defence cooperation between Vietnam and the US would be developing further, after having reaped new and practical progress, said Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Do Ba Ty.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hailed the socio-economic performance in May as the best since early this year during the monthly government meeting in Hanoi on June 3. 

The Sai Gon Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Sai Gon Zoo) in HCM City’s District 1 on June 1 opened a new flamingo garden, mini water park and eatery area for visitors.  

 From February this year, 59 out of 63 Vietnamese cities and provinces had their area codes changed, under a decision issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The province of Phu Tho is known for lang fish, which is a type of catfish caught in the rivers that flow through the area. 

VietNamNet Bridge - More and more Vietnamese travelers are choosing outbound tours instead of traveling domestically as the tours are getting cheaper.

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of apartment buildings has been increasing in new urban areas, but there are no clinics and schools in some of these areas. 

 Quan Chuong is one of the Eastern gates of the earthen fortification that surrounded the Thang Long Citadel. 

 According to Government Decree No. 07/2017/ND-CP of January 25, 2017, the grant of e-visas for foreigners who wish to enter Vietnam will be made on a pilot basis for two years, starting from February 1 this year.

John Hawksworth, chief economist for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the UK, recently came to Vietnam to attend an APEC-related meeting as speaker. The Saigon Times Daily spoke with him about his views ...

Holding a long ladder, Paul George Harding gave a smiling hello to a group of young students who were scraping dirty advertisements pasted on the walls of Nguyen Ngoc Vu Street.