Vietnam should learn from the tourism industry of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore or China, says Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue. 

Vietnam, with increasingly high income per capita, has become an attractive market targeted by foreign travel firms.

From now until the end of the year, total public debt could reach VND3,000,000 billion (US$134.5 billion) and each Vietnamese will shoulder an additional VND4 million (nearly US$180) of public debt.

Below are color and black and white photographs selected from hundreds of photos taken in northern Vietnam during the resistance war against the US and the 1979 border war by German war correspondent Thomas Billhardt.

Rents of hundreds of millions of dong a month have forced many coffee chains to leave the market.

Considered a lucrative market with value worth of up to billions of dollars, the seed market can only attract five to six Vietnamese companies, leaving openings for foreign seed companies.

Five days after typhoon Dianmu went through Hanoi, many houses in Tu Lien Ward in Tay Ho District are still flooded.

Investors have poured money into industrial zone (IZ) projects again and many large-scale projects will be completed in the time to come.

While many airports in the Mekong Delta are still idle, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) is considering building new ones.

Since Vietnam heavily relies on China, a major import/export market, it has encountered difficulties as China has tightened cross-border imports and set barriers to Vietnamese farm produce.