(VOV) -As part of the ongoing flower festival at the Vietnam Centre for Art and Cultural Exhibitions at 2 Hoa Lu Street, the first ever festival honouring Ong Cong (the Land Genie) and Ong Tao (the Kitchen Gods) will be held on February 3.
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) released its Vietnam Manufacturing PMI (Purchasing Managers’ Index) in January, 2013, which showed that Vietnam’s economy is recovering despite many difficulties in the coming time.
(VOV) -A 130-member delegation of the Vietnamese community in Cambodia joined other mourners at a procession on February 1 to move the body of the late Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk from the Royal Palace to a crematorium in a city park.
The Vietnam Fisheries Association (VFA) has protested against the US Department of Commerce (DOC)’s launch of investigation into an anti-subsidy lawsuit against frozen warm-water shrimp imported from seven countries, including Vietnam.
Consumer purchasing rose by 8.1 percent in January, compared to the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Con Dao, an island district in the southern province of Ba Ria–Vung Tau, has been included in Lonely Planet's travel magazine as one of the top nine mysterious islands in the world.
A 10-volume book named “The Continuation of the Dai Nam Administrative Records” (Kham Dinh Dai Nam Hoi Dien Su Le Tuc Bien) has been published by the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre in coordination with the Vietnam Institute of History.
Vietnam has earned nearly US$50 million from exporting 800,000 tonnes of coal in January, up 17.1 percent in volume but down 22.9 percent in value compared to the same month last year.
More Vietnamese workers are expected to work in Japan this year, according to the Department of Overseas Labour Management.
The Kon Tum Church under the Communion Evangelical Episcopal Church of Vietnam officially opened on January 31 in Kon Tum city, capital city of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum.