Japanese consumers are increasingly turning to Vietnamese rice as an alternative to domestic varieties, thanks to its comparable quality and lower price.

Mexico has witnessed Vietnam’s remarkable achievements in national construction and development, considering it a model for not only the Latin American region but also countries across the world, said Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz, chair of the Asia-Pacific Foreign Relations Committee of the Mexican Senate.

Sappers of the Quang Tri provincial Military Command on March 18 successfully detonated a magnetic bomb left over from the war.

VOV.VN - As many as 138 Vietnamese and foreign golfers are competing for the biggest prize money at the Lexus Challenge, one of the largest golf tournaments of the year at the Bluffs Grand Ho Tram in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.

VOV.VN - Models of dinosaurs, deer, and birds created from discarded plastic toys are on display at the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese enterprises exported commodities worth US$964 million to Canada in the first two months of the year, down 1.3% compared to the same period last year, according to Vietnam Customs.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and Permanent Secretary of the Thai Ministry of Defence Gen. Sanitchanog Sangkachantra co-chaired the 6th Vietnam-Thailand Defence Policy Dialogue in Bangkok on March 18.

VOV.VN - Renowned Vietnamese filmmaker Victor Vu is making a return to the horror genre with his latest movie, Thám tử Kiên: Kỳ án không đầu (Detective Kien: Headless Horror), which is expected to be a major blockbuster for Vietnam’s Reunification Day holiday, according to US entertainment website Deadline.

VOV.VN - Domestic gold ring prices surged in line with global trends, breaking previous records to reach VND100 million per tael as of 11 a.m. on March 19.

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung on March 18 met with Tang Feifan, Mayor of Zhejiang province’s Ningbo city – a key economic, trade, and maritime transport hub along China’s eastern coast, as part of his working visit to the country.