VOV.VN - Local chefs brought home 60 awards at the 2024 Penang Culinary Competition which was recently held in Malaysia.

Two Vietnamese umpires will work at Wimbledon, beginning on July 1 in London, the UK.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese culture and food left a positive impression on international friends at the 16th Bagnara ethnic culture festival, which was held from June 27 to June 30 in Italy's Emilia-Romagna region.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese economy maintained its upward trajectory in the first half of the year, with its growth expanding by 6.93% in the second quarter of the year, helping to raise its first-half growth to 6.42%, reported the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Vietnam exported 4.68 million tonnes of rice in the first six months of this year, earning US$2.98 billion, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The export value of Vietnamese coffee to Canada reached over US$4.4 million in the first quarter of 2024, up 12.2% compared to the same period last year.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called on businesses of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to expand investment cooperation in areas where the RoK has strengths and Vietnam has high demand, at a joint business forum in Seoul on July 1.

The association of Vietnamese experts of science and technology in Sweden was set up at a ceremony in Stockholm on June 29, aiming to connect and promote the potential of Vietnamese scientists in the host country.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expected that Vietnam and the RoK would explore and promote new frontiers of cooperation during a working breakfast with leaders of the RoK’s major corporations operating in the fields of industry, energy, finance, information technology, and medicine, among others, during a working breakfast in Seoul on July 1.

Vietnam will need about US$2.7 billion to implement its project of planting 1 million hectares of high-quality rice from now to 2030, according to an official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).