Tour packages to Japan are being offered at more reasonable prices, lower than VND22 million each, at many travel firms, thus encouraging more local tourists to visit Japan, according to tour operators.

British military officials are supporting their Vietnam People’s Army counterparts in a United Nations Peacekeeping Operations medical field training exercise, according to the British Embassy in Vietnam.

An exhibition of 19 photos showcasing the German-Vietnamese relations since the early 1950s opened at the Hue Cultural Museum on June 25, the Goethe Institut has announced.

Electronic products from Asanzo Vietnam, known as an electronics manufacturer supplying high-quality Vietnamese products in the local market, have been discovered to be Chinese goods being sold as Vietnamese products.

The fifth International Day of Yoga has been organized in several cities and provinces across Vietnam, according to the Embassy of India in Vietnam.

Amberstone Media in partnership with the Italian Consulate General in HCMC will for the first time bring the world-renowned Italian saxophonist Enzo Favata and his Glocal Report Quartet to Ho Chi Minh City.

An exhibition on air pollution titled “Feel The Air” unfolded in Saigon recently. On display were 34 photos selected from a contest named “Portray Air, Expose Pollution” which aimed to raise public awareness about more serious air pollution in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s wood and wooden product exports to the United States may be subject to higher import duties due to a surge in export revenues and China’s foreign direct investment in the local industry, experts said at a recent seminar in Hanoi.

In the context of a tense global trade war, while a new wave of investment inflow into Vietnam has yet to unleash, risks facing Vietnamese enterprises as well as the entire economy have surfaced. 

Japanese experts will provide various services such as consultancy and capacity building to update internal operation guidelines and revise the related legal framework for the securities market in Vietnam, sources said.