The Hanoi People’s Committee recently issued a plan on building a ‘Hanoi - creative city’ dossier to apply to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

The African swine fever (ASF) in pigs has appeared in 55 out of 63 provinces and centrally run cities in Vietnam, forcing the cull of 2.5 million pigs, or 7.5 percent of the total pig stocks.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security and Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior organised a conference in Tay Ninh on June 13 to launch a joint crackdown on drug crime along the two countries’ shared borderline.

Vietnam spent 1.1 billion USD importing mobile phones and spare parts in May, up 36.2 percent from the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

FTA opportunities remain largely untapped: trade official

Vietnam’s top underground dance music festival returns to Phu Quoc Island again this year, bigger and better than ever.

National Assembly (NA) deputies on Thursday passed the draft amendment of the Law of Tax Management with 91.32 per cent of all deputies approving the draft law.

The first Vietnam Venture Summit held in Hanoi recently saw venture capital funds commit millions of USD to Vietnamese startups, illustrating the confidence foreign investors have in the Vietnamese market.

US Science Envoy for Space, Major General Charles Frank Bolden, Jr. has completed a four-day visit to Vietnam during which he promoted space co-operation between the two countries.

Local governments have become more transparent with how they spend public money, but more needs to be done, according to a report.

The enlightenment of lobster farming with cages and rafts in Binh Ba has brought the products of lobster, blue lobster and red lobster into specialties of the whole South Central region.

Authorities in the northern province of Hoa Binh has just proposed to the government to allow vehicles to travel for free after drivers protested against the toll at the newly built Hoa Lac - Hoa Binh Toll Station.

A 11-year-old girl died while her grandmother and five cousins were found unconscious while sleeping HCM City, according to local police who said that they might have been suffocated by a power generator.

Heritage Space will present a music night featuring famous percussionist Tran Xuan Hoa, on June 22.

V.League 1's Viettel ended their contract with coach Lee Heung-sil yesterday due to poor results after 13 matches.

Vietnam’s U20 futsal team beat Mes Sungun U20 team of Iran 6-3 in their second friendly match in Iran on Tuesday.

À Ố Làng Phố, one of the most well-known Vietnamese bamboo circus shows, will wow Australians at the Sydney Opera House, becoming the first Vietnamese art show be introduced at this iconic theatre.

Nguyen Tuan Anh, a standing member of the National Assembly Committee on Science, Technology and Environment, talks to Vietnam News Agency about how to make best use of e-government to speed up administrative reform.

Professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighting may finally be coming to Vietnam.

Ly Hoang Nam of Vietnam won his opening match at the M25 Hong Kong Men’s Futures tennis tournament yesterday.