The Prime Minister has approved the allocation of VND3,000 billion or US$140.6 million from the State budget in 2015 for climate change projects.

The head of Ho Chi Minh City's Psychological Hospital has recommended that drug addicts be given mental-health therapy after they complete detoxification services.

The Republic of Korea (RoK) and Japan have been defined as the primary markets of Hanoi’s tourism thanks to their high growth in the number of arrivals to the capital.

The next round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations will take place in New York in late January, taking up outstanding issues that were not solved at the previous talks in Washington in December 2014.

Vietnam is intensifying quarantine over its vegetables and fruits to facilitate the export of these products to foreign markets, with a focus on the US, Japan, Australia and the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Several measures have been suggested by economic experts to help the banking sector reduce the non-performing loan (NPL) ratio to less than 3% in 2015, as required by the Government.

More and more foreign investors in the educational sector have decided to expand their operations in provinces instead of major cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Visitors will enjoy free entrance to Khai Tuong Lau showroom in An Dinh palace, a tourist attraction in the Hue Imperial City, from January 20 to March 3, according to the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre.

The Prime Minister has recently approved a project on support for wind power use with a total investment of EUR7 million from the German Government’s non-refundable official development assistance.

The first group of students being sponsored by the Australian Government's New Colombo Plan to undertake short-term study in Vietnam this year has arrived in Hanoi.