After joining WTO, Vietnam laid the red carpet out to welcome foreign investors with huge investment projects worth billions of dollars. But some of these projects never started or have lost licenses.  

Trang An, Hue, My Son, Hoi An are among the country's World Heritage sites and top tourist attractions.

Vietnam has great advantages for agricultural production, but in the last 10 years, domestic enterprises have been focusing on the services sector and abandoning the field.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is expected to continue the shift of investment flows into industries of high pollution risk in Vietnam like textile-dying, paper, iron and steel.

Vietnam will provide special tax incentives to enterprises in the science and technology and agriculture sectors.

Myanmar has jumped into large markets, getting ready to become the No 1 in the world in rice exports, according to Vo Tong Xuan, the leading rice expert. 

In Vietnam, South East Asia's largest market, brewers spend hundreds of billions of dong to hire promotion girls to serve marketing campaigns.

This year Vietnam’s Hoi An ancient town ranks 6th among the ten best cities in Asia, voted by readers of Travel & Leisure.

The first Miss Vietnam Bui Bich Phuong holds the record as the shortest beauty queen of Vietnam. She was crowned in 1988, at the age of 18, with the height of 1.57 meters.

The Hanoi Transport Corporation (Transerco) in July will complete the installation of devices to provide free Wi-Fi services on 200 buses. In the future all buses in Hanoi will have free Internet services.