The 10th Korean Culture & Food Festival will begin on November 30, offering festival-goers a chance to enjoy food and music performances by popular artists from the Republic of Korea and Vietnam.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) is drafting a new circular on foreign currency lending, allowing credit institutions and foreign bank branches to extend loans to some borrowers in 2019 instead of cutting them off at the end of this year as planned.

Prevention of smuggling of goods across the country’s borders is becoming more difficult as the New Year season approaches, according to border authorities.

Vietnam had won a three-year dispute with Indonesia regarding safeguards on certain iron and steel products, according to the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam.

The HCM City Fine Arts Museum is hosting a permanent exhibition showcasing work by female painter Le Thi Luu, the first Vietnamese woman to graduate from Indochina Fine Arts College (now the Hanoi Fine Arts University).

Vietnam’s laws on waste disposal at sea put the marine ecosystem, aquatic resources and people’s livelihoods under severe threat, according to experts.

National Cancer Control Plans (NCCPs) must be comprehensive and funded since the global cancer burden is huge and would increase, Dr Alexandru Eniu of the European Society For Medical Oncology’s executive board has warned.

Vietnam remained the smallest local currency bond market among nine economies of emerging East Asia, according to the latest edition of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Asia Bond Monitor.

Bronze casting in Che Dong village in the central province of Thanh Hoa has officially received a certification recognising it as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage, making it the seventh local heritage to receive the title in the country.

One of the main achievements of Vietnam’s agricultural restructuring plan over the last five years is the formation of three product categories – national key products, local key products and those under the programme “one village, one product”.