From September, people in Hanoi can enjoy public bicycle service at a cost from 5,000-10,000 VND (0.21-0.42 USD) for 30 minutes of use, Do Ba Dan, Chairman of Tri Nam Group, the investor in the project, said on July 5.

Nearly 1.46 trillion VND (61.4 million USD) will be spent on an eco-tourism, resort, and entertainment project in U Minh Ha National Park by 2030, according to the Ca Mau provincial People’s Committee.

The Steering Committee on External Information Service held a conference at the headquarters of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) in Hanoi on July 5 to review its first-half performance and lay out tasks for the remaining months of this year.

The representative board of Hoa Hao Buddhism in Ho Chi Minh City on July 5 held a ceremony to celebrate the religion’s 84th anniversary (May 18, 1939 - 2023).

Vietnam moves up four places in 2023 Global Peace Index to 41st position

The People’s Council of Hanoi, during its 12th session on July 4, approved a resolution clarifying 12 specific groups of policies encouraging the development of agriculture and rural areas until 2030.

A conference was held in Hanoi on July 4 to evaluate the role of green hydrogen in Vietnam’s energy policy, contributing to implementing the National Power Development Plan for the 2021 - 2030 period, with a vision to 2045 (PDP VIII).

Do Van Son, former chief accountant of the Advanced International Joint Stock Company (AIC Group), who has been wanted for further investigations into a medical equipment bidding scam, has turned himself in to police.

One more suspect in the case of "terrorism aimed at opposing the people's administration" in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has been put on the special wanted list, the investigation security agency under the provincial Department of Public Security said on July 4.

A multi-purpose hall of the Laos-Vietnam Friendship School in Laos’ central province of Savannakhet was inaugurated on July 3.

At the Government's teleconference with localities and the regular Cabinet meeting in Hanoi on July 4, the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI) presented two growth scenarios for the third quarter and the whole year 2023, indicating that the tasks for the remaining months of this year are heavy, with a growth rate of 8.0% or higher.

President of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) Nguyen Ngoc Bao has suggested stronger cooperation between the Netherlands' Agriterra agricultural development support organisation (Agriterra) and the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA), towards intensifying contributions of collective economic areas to Vietnam’s economic development.

Localities must focus on drastic measures, especially in the management of fishing vessels and the traceability of their origins, directed Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien.

A man residing in Mo Lao ward, Hanoi’s Ha Dong district has been sentenced to six years in prison for “making, storing, distributing, or disseminating information, documents, and items against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.”

Improving access to opportunities for workers in the digital age is a must, said Vu Quoc Huy, director of Vietnam National Innovation Centre.

Vinh International Airport in the central province of Nghe An is being closed for 24 hours from 10:50 am July 3 to fix cracks in the runway, according to the Northern Airports Authority.

Vietnam’s new visa policy may help the country welcome 12 million foreign tourists this year, far surpassing the target of 8 million set previously, said Hoang Nhan Chinh, Secretariat Director of the Vietnam Tourism Advisory Board (TAB).

The Investigation Police Agency of Da Lat city in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong have launched criminal proceedings against a case violating construction regulations in accordance with Article 298 of the Criminal Code 2015 (revised and supplemented in 2017), which resulted in a landslide that left two dead and five others injured on June 29.

From August 15, people with Vietnamese e-visas can enter and exit the country any number of times within 90 days, a long-awaited and major overhaul of the country’s visa system that is expected to revive tourism and hospitality, according to industry insiders.

The number of Vietnamese guest workers working overseas under contracts exceeded 59,600 in the first five months of this year, or 54.2% of the annual plan and over 1.9 times higher than the same period last year, showing positive signals from overseas employment, according to the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.