VOV.VN - Vietnam still enjoyed a trade surplus of US$28 billion despite a fall in trade exchanges in 2023, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said in a report released in Hanoi on December 29.

A cultural exchange and tourism connection between the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong and the Indian region of Ladakh kicked off in Da Lat city on December 27.

VOV.VN - The second Ninh Binh - Trang An Festival officially kicked off in the northern province of Ninh Binh on December 26 evening, featuring a wide range of interesting programmes.

Experts have predicted that gold prices, which reached a record high last week, may continue to rise in the short term, but the upward trend would be hard to sustain in the medium and long term.

Hong Kong and Vietnam have numerous areas in which they could closely cooperate with each other, especially in professional financial services, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of Hong Kong Christopher Hui said following his trip to Vietnam from December 13-15.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese gold prices continued to soar on the afternoon of December 19, hitting a new record high of VND74.9 million per tael on the back of the ongoing global market rally.

Hoang Quoc Long, head of the Ministry of Home Affairs’ youth affairs department, and Lee In-hyuk, Director-General of the Korean Foundation (KF) ASEAN Culture House, signed an extension of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in youth-related experience sharing and exchanges in Hanoi on December 14.

A delegation from the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Chungcheongnam province held talks and signed a cooperation agreement with authorities of the northern province of Bac Giang on December 5.

VOV.VN - Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia will host a joint border defense friendship exchange in mid-December 2023, a press briefing heard in Hanoi on December 1.

Vessels 264 and 265 together with a delegation of Naval Region 5 of the Vietnam People’s Navy arrived at Songkhla Port, south of Thailand, on November 30, starting a visit to the High Command of Naval Region 2 of the Royal Thai Navy.