Vietnam has set a target to climb at least two places in the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI) by 2025.

Phu Quoc island in the southern province of Kien Giang has emerged as a new trending destination, spurred by the introduction of new air routes by Korean Air.

Improving qualifications of guest workers and developing foreign labour markets that suit Vietnamese labourers' standards and skills have been considered as key tasks in 2024 in order to stepping up the sending of labourers to work abroad.

Deputy Prime Minister, Trần Lưu Quang, held a reception in Hà Nội on January 16 for a delegation of Vietnamese and Japanese students participating in the Teenage Ambassadors' Programme.

President Vo Van Thuong and a working delegation paid homage to President Ho Chi Minh at Chung Son temple, a sacred site dedicated to ancestors of the revered leader, and at the Kim Lien special national heritage site in Nam Dan district, the central province of Nghe An on January 16.

A delegation of the Vietnamese Consulate General in Osaka on January 15 handed over thousands of essential supplies to authorities of Higashiosaka city so as to deliver relief goods to people affected by a recent earthquake in Ishikawa prefecture.

Border guards and police from the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien completed procedures to receive 69 citizens handed over by the Phong Sa Ly provincial police of Laos, at Tay Trang international border gate on January 16.

In a joint effort to address urban development challenges, authorities of Da Nang City and leaders of Japan’s Yokohama city convened the 12th urban development forum in the Vietnamese central city on January 16.

To implement and monitor key public projects in 2024-2030, identify those in need of investment, and deal with arising issues, the HCM City plans to establish a steering committee.

The project ‘Transforming Rice Value Chains for Climate Resilient and Sustainable Development in the Mekong Delta’ (TRVC) was announced on Tuesday.

Văn Lang University (VLU) in collaboration with Korea Institute of Culture Product and Design (KICD) on Monday (January 15) co-organised a winter international symposium and exhibition for the first time in Việt Nam.

The Coast Guard has seized 15,000 litres of smuggled diesel from a wooden fishing boat off the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang.

The Hồ Chí Minh City Department of Health views this success as an initial outcome in the specialised field of foetal congenital heart intervention.

Cambodian people will never forget the end of the Pol Pot regime 45 years ago and the whole-hearted support and sacrifices made by Vietnamese voluntary troops. Those efforts have helped create an unbreakable bond between the two nations.

The HCM City Student Assistance Centre is stepping up efforts to support disadvantaged students and workers as Tết (Lunar New Year) approaches.

The Vietnam–Malaysia Business Association (VMBIZ), with the support of the Business Association of Overseas Vietnamese (BAOOV), on January 15 held a ceremony to present a bronze bell to Ti-Ratana Heights pagoda in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The People’s Court of Đắk Lắk will open the first-instance trial on Tuesday for 100 defendants involved in a case of the terrorist attacks in Cư Kuin district in the Central Highlands province on June 11, 2023.

Sok Eysan, the speaker of the Cambodia People Party, confirmed that the Cambodian people are lucky to have survived the genocide regime thanks to the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation with the effective support of Vietnamese voluntary troops.

The project was co-implemented by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Việt Nam and the Police Department of Firefighting, Prevention and Rescue under the Ministry of Public Security.

More than 80 per cent of overseas Vietnamese are living in industrial and developed countries and major global economic hubs.