Coffee export turnover to most traditional markets has increased sharply since the beginning of the year.

The hotel industry is lagging amid low occupancy rates, though room rates are almost at 2019 levels in most areas, according to Savills Hotels.

Vietnam welcomes the UN Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime’s adoption of the draft UN Cybercrime Convention as an important first step for the UN General Assembly to consider and adopt it, said Nguyen Minh Vu, Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam.

An event promoting agricultural products from Poland was held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 8.

Politburo member and Chairman of the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information and Education Nguyen Trong Nghia hosted separate receptions in Hanoi on August 8 for the Indian and Japanese ambassadors to Vietnam.

A wide range of wood products and cutting-edge technologies in the wood industry are being showcased at the Binh Duong International Woodworking Machinery Exhibition that opened in the southern province on August 8.

The cremated ashes of Merle Ratner, a left-wing and anti-war US activist and a friend of Vietnam, left New York for Vietnam at a ceremony held by the Permanent Mission of Vietnam in New York, her relatives and friends on August 7.

Vietnamese Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien paid a courtesy visit to Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence General Tea Seiha on August 8 as part of his working trip to the neighbouring country to attend the seventh defence policy dialogue between the two nations.

Amidst a global aviation market facing shortages and rising travel demand, Vietjet is expected to add 10 new-generation aircraft to its modern fleet in the last months of 2024.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt and Lebanon on August 8 advised the Vietnamese citizens in Lebanon to leave the country as soon as possible due to the deteriorating security situation in the region, particularly the escalating tensions between Israel and the force of Hezbollah.