The tourism sector of the central province of Khanh Hoa is ready to welcome an estimated 154,000 tourists, including 35,000 foreigners, in the first lunar week of the Year of the Horse (January 31-February 5).
The central province of Quang Ngai has announced that four of its local specialties have won national accolades: Tra River bong fish, keo guong (transparent candy), don (shellfish) and Tra Bong cinnamon.
President Truong Tan Sang has stressed the need for the country’s experienced citizens to set a greater moral example to the next generations.
Ho Chi Minh City wants to boost its bilateral partnership with the Japanese city of Nemuro, especially in agriculture and fisheries.
The Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Le Thanh Hai led a delegation to pay a pre-Tet (Lunar New Year) visit the southern office of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha Central Committee (VBFCC) on January 24.
Police in the southern province of Tay Ninh on January 24 arrested five local people for involvement in a human trafficking ring.
A southern traditional cake festival is taking place in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho’s Cai Khe Islet, with more than 100 kinds of traditional cakes on show.
Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Le Hoang Quan has thanked foreign consulates, organisations and businesses for their significant contribution to the city’s development, asking for intensified cooperation in the time to come.
Credit rating firm Fitch has revised Vietnam’s credit outlook to Positive from Stable due to economic movements in the past time.
The Prime Minister has requested ministries, agencies and localities to combat avian influenza by cracking down on cross-border smuggling of poultry and poultry products, in the face of rising new virus strains in regional countries and territories.