VOV.VN - Vietnamese rice exports to the Philippines last year exceeded the US$1 billion mark for the first time, according to statistics compiled by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Musicians Association (VMA) held an awards ceremony on January 17 in Hanoi to present the 2020 Music Awards to a total of 78 outstanding local musical works by various Vietnamese artists.

“Mot thoang Viet Nam” (Vietnam at a Glance), a tourism park recreating the beauty of Vietnam’s thousand-year-old traditional culture located on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, was reopened on January 16 after 10 years.

The Hanoi-based Vietnam National Puppetry Theatre has launched an experimental art programme named “Trang” (The Moon) that features different types of puppetry to offer the audience a new experience of the Vietnamese culture.

VOV.VN - The yearly amount of remittances sent by Vietnamese guest workers to Vietnam from abroad is between US$3 billion and US$4 billion per year, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

VOV.VN - The local coffee industry has been urged to develop its value chain, strengthen connectivity between production and trade, whilst developing export markets and building brands to achieve the export target of US$6 billion by 2030.

VOV.VN - The nation has surpassed Germany for the first time to become China's sixth largest trading partner, marking a positive achievement in trade relations between both sides, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs of China.

The Vietnam’s first vacation exchange platform, VPASS, has been officially launched after a signing ceremony of strategic cooperation between VPASS and partner resorts nationwide.

VOV.VN - Only Vietnamese citizens who are left stranded overseas due to COVID-19 but have urgent needs for returning to the homeland will be considered for repatriation from now till the Lunar New Year holiday (Tet).

VOV.VN - Vietnam is accelerating negotiations to export greater volumes of durian to China through official channels following pilot shipments of the fruit to Australia last June.