VOV.VN - The Kim Dong Publishing House and the French Institute in Hanoi have jointly launched a comic contest to seek Vietnamese writers to the Angoulême International Comics Festival due to be held in France in January 2025.

An immense light festival will be held as part of the Hue Festival 2024 with the support of the French Embassy and the French Institute in Vietnam (IFV), expecting to bring visitors an immersive experience in a fantasy universe of light and sound.

VOV.VN - A number of international financiers have expressed their optimism about Vietnam’s economic growth in 2024 which is likely to be higher than last year’s figure, reported by Tuoi Tre (Young Age) newspaper.

VOV.VN - An earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale hit the northern border province of Tuyen Quang on April 27, and fortunately it caused no casualties.

A delegation of the State Audit Office of Vietnam (SAV) led by Deputy Auditor General Nguyen Tuan Anh attended the 26th symposium co-organised by the United Nations (UN) and the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) in Vienna, Austria, as part of their working trip from April 15-21.

A total of 86.2% of credit institutions expect their profit this year to grow compared to 2023, according to the latest survey of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the State Bank of Vietnam to direct banks to further lower lending rates to increase the economy’s access to capital.

VOV.VN - The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) has just delivered the first batch of 500,000 doses of 5-in-1 DPT-HBV-Hib vaccine to Pasteur Institutes across the country to address vaccine shortages for the National Expanded Programme on Immunization.

Challenges to the energy sectors of Vietnam and Russia, as well as solutions to them were discussed at an international roundtable held at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MEI) on April 16.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai received Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister and Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), in Hanoi on April 16.