Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a broad plan to establish a new economic corridor to enable goods to flow more freely between Vietnam, China and Cambodia.

Top Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam has emerged as both the men's singles and doubles champion of the 25th Sarawak Chief Minister's Cup (I) ITF Junior Tennis Championship (Grade 1) in Malaysia.

President Truong Tan Sang, accompanied his wife and a high-ranking delegation, began a three-day official visit to Laos on March 23.

Vietnamese engineers have worked to master advanced oil rig construction technology and have now exported their giant oil platforms.

The Can Cau market is not as spacious as the markets found in Sa Pa Town or Bac Ha District, but it attracts people from all over due to the cultural diversity of the ethnic groups residing in the border region of Si Ma Cai District.

The 140th anniversary celebration of Bizet's opera Carmen will be held at the HCM City Opera House on March 29 with a two-part performance, featuring excerpts from the opera and a ballet staged by P. A. Kim Quy.

A teenager's passion for stone lions has given them an imposing global presence via a website on which he uploads photographs that can be seen in three dimensions.

Organisations and individuals can now easily access socio-economic data at provincial and district levels in both English and Vietnamese at the new website www.worldbank.org/mapvietnam/, launched by the World Bank on March 20.

Vietnamese seafood exporters are expected to encounter difficulties due to bad weather in the United States and the recent depreciation of the euro against the US dollar.

The application of regional or international labour standards for Vietnamese domestic workers would be unlikely to work at present, despite an ASEAN model introduced by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) last month.