Cat Ba National Park in the northern port city of Hai Phong has been a safe haven for thousands of creatures, including many rare animals.
Developers of infrastructure for industrial parks (IP) and export processing zones (EPZ) in HCMC are piloting schemes to construct multi-storey workshop buildings for small and medium manufacturers, according to The Saigon Times Daily.
Vietnam earned an estimated US$1.95 billion from exports of agro-forestry-fishery products in January, a year-on-year decline of 13.8%, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
A US$12 million coffee processing plant was officially launched by the German group Neumann Gruppe on January 26 in the An Phuoc Industrial Zone, Long Thanh district, southern Dong Nai province.
Advising the Government on specific support policies for regional localities to maximise their strength should be one of the key tasks of the Steering Committee for Central Highlands in 2015, said Head of the Committee, General Tran Dai Quang.
Vietnam is rapidly urbanising, both spatially and demographically; despite a large amount of urban expansion, its cities are becoming denser, said a report released by the World Bank (WB) on January 26.
The Cambodian Artillery High Command inaugurated its new headquarters in Kampong Speu province, funded by the Vietnam Ministry of Defence.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on behalf of the Vietnamese State and Government leaders came to the Saudi Arabian embassy in Hanoi to express sympathy over the death of its King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz on January 26.
Material support is scheduled to be delivered to the poor as well as beneficiaries of preferential policies for those who rendered services to the nation as the Lunar New Year is drawing near, said Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen.
A troupe from the British TNT Theatre will perform Frankenstein – The Monster and the Myth from March 17 to 21 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.