The State-run Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (SBIC) is to restructure 152 subsidiaries in 2015, General Director Vu Anh Tuan revealed at a conference setting the year’s tasks on January 16.

Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Le Ba Trinh wished Protestant dignitaries and followers a happy new year while receiving executive members of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Vietnam in Hanoi on January 16.

Vietnamese people living in New Zealand have established an organisation called VietkidsNZ with the goal of teaching the mother tongue for children of Vietnamese origin in an effort to preserve homeland culture for the next generations.

(VOV) -Terrorism has cast a shadow over France, the EU, and several other countries after last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris killed 17 people. The massacres have pushed European countries closer to each other in the fight against terrorism.

The Goethe Institute in Hanoi is hosting a display of “Ao Dai” (Vietnamese traditional long gown) in combination with a multimedia installation as the first cultural activity in a series to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Germany and Vietnam in 2015.

Japanese businesses, including those in Osaka city, are interested in studying the investment climate in Ho Chi Minh City, especially in the fields of infrastructure, economy and education.

Honda Vietnam (HVN) sold as many as 6,492 automobiles in 2014, up 41% from 2013, according to Director of the Automobile Division at Honda Vietnam Tomohiro Maruno.

The Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in collaboration with the provincial Museum of Nam Dinh and the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts on January 15 opened an exhibition on old Vietnamese lion and “Nghe” sculptures.

Hashima Vietnam, a 100 percent owned affiliate of Japan’s Hashima Sewing Machine Corporation, opened its first factory in the northern province of Ha Nam on January 15.

Officials from the Dutch city of Eindhoven had a working session on January 15 with authorities of Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Duong, seeking a cooperation deal for both localities’ socio-economic development.