To make Ho Chi Minh City more attractive to local and foreign travellers, the city’s authorities have decided to build Sai Gon Cultural and Tourism Village.

This year, over 280 CapitaLand properties around the world, including all 34 CapitaLand properties in Singapore, participated in the global World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Earth Hour movement, which officially kicked off on 25 March 2017 at 8.30 pm local time.

Multiple streets across Ho Chi Minh City do not have the luxury of sidewalks as local homes were built close to the road, creating immense challenges for pedestrians.

Construction overkill on the Son Tra Peninsula, home to the biggest langur population in Vietnam, could be turning the popular central city of Danang into the most suffocating city in Vietnam.

Nine Vietnamese men are missing after their cargo ship collided with an unknown vessel and sank in the waters off the country's southern coast early on March 28 morning, search and rescue forces have reported.

A colony of 15 Antarctic gentoo penguins are being kept at the heart of one of Vietnam’s largest and most modern aquariums on Phu Quoc Island.

Ho Chi Minh City is expanding the “Proper Care” programme to some other districts in 2017 in an effort to accelerate the eradication of tuberculosis (TB), said chairman of the city’s Public Health Association Dr. Le Truong Giang.

The Institute for Africa and Middle East Studies (IAMES) under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and the Moroccan Centre for Studies and Research in Social Sciences on March 28 inked a cooperation agreement to promote the exchange of scientific information.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) held a press conference on March 28 to update the media on the unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination and the settlement of post-war UXO consequences in Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City and the Lao province of Xieng Khouang have agreed to boost friendly ties, firstly in the fields of library, museum and high-tech agriculture. 

VOV.VN - Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has affirmed the city's willingness to provide all possible support for the Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV) project.

VOV.VN - Hundreds of guests attended a gala organized on March 27 by Vietnamese students studying at the Sejong University in the Republic of Korea (ROK).

The final outcomes of the Knowledge Sharing Programme (KSP) launched by the Republic of Korea (RoK) in Vietnam were announced at a workshop in Hanoi on March 28.

The central province of Quang Nam aims to send at least 400 labourers to foreign countries this year, targeting high-income markets like the Republic of Korea, Japan, Taiwan (China), and those with suitable requirements such as Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates.

Growing vegetables on sandy fields is helping farmers out of poverty in a coastal commune in the central province of Thua Thien- Hue.

VOV.VN - US Ambassador Ted Osius has once again organized a bike ride through the Vietnam countryside for staff of the US Embassy, this week taking them on a ride to the Hung Kings Temple.

The process of administrative procedures through the online public service system at http://pus.customs.gov.vn of Hanoi Customs prove effective, contributing to facilitating import-export activities of local enterprises. 

Some 200 people from oil exploiting and transporting companies and organisations in the northern province of Quang Ninh were provided with necessary knowledge and skills to respond to oil spills during a training course held in the locality on March 28.

Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan has highlighted that Vietnam always welcomes and creates all favourable conditions for Indian firms to join programmes and projects on information technology in Vietnam.

The presence of 21 Vietnamese pagodas in Thailand has demonstrated the two nations’ cultural interaction, thus helping promote the bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership.

Traffic accidents have killed 2,100 people and injured 3,800 others in the first three months of 2017, which is a decrease compared to the same period last year.

The Government has told the Ministry of Transport (MoT) to put the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway into operation by the first quarter of 2018. 

A court in Vietnam's Central Highlands has sentenced a Vietnamese man to four and a half years in jail for “giving bribes” in a corruption case that he himself had exposed, local media reported.

VOV.VN - Miss Vietnam 2008 titleholder Tran Thi Thuy Dung and other beauties recently donated food and supplies to disadvantaged children living in Gia Nghia commune, the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong.

VOV.VN - Leaders of the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) and Vietnam Airlines met in Hanoi on March 27 to outline cooperative contents between the two agencies in the time ahead. 

Authorities in Lam Dong Province are looking into reports of unauthorized tours to a zipline over the Golden Stream in Lac Duong District, an area that is not licensed for adventure tourism.

At least two people have been killed and 10 others wounded after two passenger buses collided head-on in Vietnam on the afternoon of March 26.

The Vietnamese and US travel societies are expected to sign an agreement in Hanoi on April 7 to boost tourism cooperation.

VOV.VN - An ASEM conference will take place in Central Hue City on March 30-31 to discuss innovative education and human resource building for sustainable development. 

Bamboo rat is a species of rodent that makes a popular delicacy in both Vietnam and China.