A new building of the Lao Ministry of Industry and Commerce’s Department of SME Promotion, built with funding from the Vietnamese Association in Vientiane, was handed over to the Lao ministry on December 15.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has taken note of problems and difficulties faced by foreigners when applying for visas to enter Vietnam, said deputy spokeswoman Pham Thu Hang during the ministry’s regular press conference in Hanoi on December 15.

Night flights will be doubled to meet increasing travel demand before, during, and after Lunar New Year Festival – the biggest one in Vietnam and other Asian countries, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

VOV.VN - Dinh Thi Thanh Huong, vice chairwoman of Galaxy Media and Entertainment JSC, received the “Distributor of the Year” Award at the CineAsia 2022 ceremony which was recently held in Bangkok, Thailand.

Nearly 100 athletes representing Vovinam Viet Vo Dao (Vietnamese martial art) Federations in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Romania, Spain and Vietnam have attended the International Vovinam Cup 2022-Grand Master Nguyen Van Chieu held recently in Montichiari city, Italy.

The south-central province of Binh Dinh is determined to have no local fishing boats violating foreign waters in the next six months before the European Commission (EC) review the “yellow card” against Vietnamese fisheries sector, according to Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Ho Quoc Dung.

VOV.VN - Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr auction house presented for the first time a sale entitled La Modernite Vietnamienne for Vietnamese art in Paris, France, on December 14.

A series of seven movies themed on Vietnamese soldiers will be screened during a film week that will take place from December 18-21.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese women's national football team remain the leading team in Southeast Asia and retain their 34th place in the world, FIFA, the world football’s governing body, announced in its latest rankings.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese tourists are tending to choose destinations in Northeast Asia such as Japan, Taiwan (China), and the Republic of Korea (RoK) for short New Year holidays, according to survey conducted by travel firms.