A representative of Ricardo Quaresma has rubbished claims that the Portuguese footballer was gearing up for a move to Vietnam.

Vietnamese artists Phan Thị Thanh Mai won the first place prize and Ngo Duy Hien took fourth at the recent 26th International Statue and Painting Exhibition in Seoul, South Korea.

To reduce the population pressure on Da Lat, Lam Dong Province authorities should not expand it but build satellite areas around it, an architect has said.

The total average income from all jobs of wage earners increased in the first quarter of this year, while the unemployment rate dropped significantly during the period, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

Vietnam hopes that no people who made special contributions to the nation will belong to poor households by 2020.

US plugs its cotton at HCM City event

HCM City will begin implementing preferential policies this week to attract and retain talented people who can contribute to the city’s economic, social and cultural development.

Low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific will launch three direct flights a week between the central city of Da Nang and Kaohsiung, Taiwan from August 10.

South Korean player Myung-Woo Cho won the International three-Cushion Billiards Tournament that ended in the southern province of Binh Duong on Sunday.

The number of students from kindergarten to high school levels in HCM City will increase by more than 75,400 in the 2019-20 academic year, according to the city’s Department of Education and Training.

Among nine subjects in the National High School Examination this year, History remained the subject with lowest average score despite all subjects seeing increased averages from last year's exam,

A handmade lacquer work from Vietnam has become the first contemporary handicraft object from Southeast Asia to be displayed at the Guimet Museum of Asian Art in Paris.

The Vietnam Puppetry Theatre will stage Truyện Kiều (The Tale of Kiều) for the first time as an experimental performance.

An inner-city exhibition space showing mementoes of Truong Sa and Hoang Sa can satisfy all who have no chance to visit the remote islands but desire to learn about them and national sovereignty.

Five-star hotels in the country increased room rates by 4.1 per cent last year while four-star hotels dropped theirs by 2.3 per cent, according to the Vietnam Hotel Survey released on Thursday by Grant Thornton.

As of June 20, Vietnam had 723,667 businesses using e-tax declaration services, 99.8 per cent of total operating firms, according to the General Department of Taxation.

VN labour market records positive figures in six months

On Sunday afternoon, a vessel of the High Command of Marine Police reached a fishing vessel that had been stranded at sea with a broken engine in the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands since June 30 and took over the rescue effort 

Information from a map featuring Tu Duc King’s (1847-1883) tomb area, drawn during the revolutionary regime after 1975, will be used to assist efforts to rebuild the tomb of one of the wives of King Tu Duc of the Nguyen Dynasty.

The 26th HCM City International Track and Field Viet Nam Open 2019 will take place at Thong Nhat Stadium from July 17-19, the organising board has announced.