Ho Chi Minh City has great potential to become a UNESCO ‘World Book Capital’ thanks to having a number of venues and events promoting reading, according to local officials.

VOV.VN - The first-ever book festival on gender equality is being held from March 4 to March 11 at the Vietnam Women’s Museum in Hanoi.

The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City on March 1 organized a ceremony to launch the publication “Tranh dau cho hoa binh” - the Vietnamese version of the book “Waging peace in Vietnam” which details efforts by US soldiers to oppose and resist the US war in Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City is planning to apply for the title of UNESCO World Book Capital (WBC) in 2025, according to Lam Dinh Thang, director of the municipal Department of Information and Communications.

Bookings for flights from the UK to Malaysia and Vietnam are up by more than 2,200% against early last year when both countries were still closed to international tourists, according to CNN, which cited data from travel service provider Flight Centre UK.

VOV.VN - A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) led by Vu Trong Lam, deputy editor-in-chief of the Communist Review, paid a working visit to Cuba from February 9 to February 14.

VOV.VN - Online hotel booking site Booking.com has listed Phong Nha cave in the central province of Quang Binh among the top seven most inspiring destinations across the world for Valentine’s Day.

VOV.VN - Booking.com, a hotel booking app covering 228 countries and territories globally, has revealed the Top 10 most welcoming places in Vietnam this year for travelers to experience the best in hospitality to enjoy a truly memorable travel experience.

The Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and Fine Arts Publishing House have collaborated to release a bilingual book on nine national treasures that are now preserved in the museum.

Vietnam’s e-commerce is projected to continue booming in 2023 and developing firmly in the following years, aided by a series of growth drivers such as the wave of digital transformation, consumers’ trust, technological infrastructure, and favourable mechanisms and policies issued by the Government.