Ho Chi Minh City housing is among the least affordable in the Asia Pacific region with a median home price representing 32.5 times the median annual household income, said a report by Urban Land Institute (ULI).

VOV.VN - SCImago Institutions Rankings recently announced their global ranking of research institutes and universities in 2023, with the Top 10 Vietnamese universities being unveiled.

VOV.VN - The US Embassy partnered with the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion on June 13 to conduct the ninth “Give Blood and Keep the World Beating” blood drive in Hanoi aimed at supporting the national blood supply.

The building of a regulatory sandbox for circular economy development in Vietnam was discussed at a forum held on June 12 by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) and the Programme for Sustainable Economic Development under the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).

VOV.VN - A delegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence led by Deputy Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien attended the 20th Shangri-La Dialogue that officially opened in Singapore on June 3.

VOV.VN - The two-day visit to Vietnam starting on June 3 by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese indicates that Australia attaches great importance to and desires to further boost ties with the nation.

The Vietnam - Myanmar Friendship Association and the International Investment Research Institute (ISC) on May 31 launched a book on Vietnam’s direct investment abroad and in Myanmar.

VOV.VN - The Institute for Applied Geopolitics Studies (EGA) hosted a workshop on the South China Sea (known as the East Sea in Vietnam) at the headquarters of the French Senate in Paris on May 26.

The Moscow State Linguistic University, known as Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages (MGLU), on May 24 organised the Vietnam Day to mark the 133rd birth anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh.

Vietnam is seeing a great opportunity to access the mRNA technology for vaccine production, said Patrick Haverman, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Vietnam, at a workshop held by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Health Strategy and Policy Institute (HSPI) under the Ministry of Health in Hanoi on May 22.