Analysts expect 2014 will be a more successful year for the Vietnamese real estate market, after the year began with an increase in the number of apartment transactions.
Officers of the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department on February 11 seized 4.22 kg of heroin, worth some VND15 billion (US$714,300), being smuggled to Australia via express delivery.
Poverty reduction efforts during the 2005-2012 period produced positive outcomes across Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
Provinces and cities are on high alert and taking all possible precautions as bird flu epidemic has broken out in neighbouring China.
The Prime Minister has passed the National Action Programme on the prevention of domestic violence through 2020, according to the Government Portal.
The 12th Vietnamese Poetry Day will be held at Temple of Literature in Hanoi on February 13-14.
Transport Minister Dinh La Thang and his Singaporean counterpart Lui Tuck Yew have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the transport sector.
Thousands of people from different regions across the country have flocked to Tien Du district in northern Bac Ninh province to attend the Lim festival which is dedicated to Quan Ho (love duet singing), part of the world’s intangible cultural heritage.
An annual festival that features the cultural colours of Vietnam’s 54 ethnic groups through their New Year celebrations will take place at the Culture Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups in Hanoi from February 15-17.
The border gates of Chang Riec and Vac Sa in the southern province of Tay Ninh will be upgraded to national fifth-tier border urban areas by 2020.