The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has assigned the authority of the northwestern province of Yen Bai to submit a dossier of the Xoe dance of the Thai ethnic people to UNESCO to seek the title of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity....
A Vietnamese consortium between Vietnam Construction and Import-Export JS Corp. (VCG), known as Vinaconex and Intelligent Building Solution JSC has won packages worth VND552.5 billion ($24.55 million) in total for the Danang-Quang Ngai expressway....
Authorities of Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai have proposed the government extend a metro route in Ho Chi Minh City and expand several expressways to enhance transport connections in the southern economic zone. The province’s People’s...
The Asia Development Bank (ADB) will provide technical assistance for the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang to implement a basic infrastructure project for comprehensive development. During a working session with officials from the...
The U.S. Embassy in Vietnam has launched a contest encouraging the contributions to advance the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) persons in the workplace and to build a coalition between LGBTI-focused civil society...
Vietnam are recalling two lots of antibiotics manufactured in India for not meeting quality standards, according to documents recently issued by the Department of Drug Management under the Ministry of Health, state media reported. The two drugs are...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health plans to expand the family doctor model to 80% of provinces and cities nationwide by 2020, according to an online conference held on July 15, state media reported. The model will provide continuous basic healthcare...
A U.S. business delegation, led by Arun M. Kumar, assistant secretary of Commerce for Global Markets, on July 18 met with authorities of Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City to seek investment opportunities in water infrastructure. At...
Police of Hoang Mai district in Hanoi discovered six sacks containing dozens of elephant tusks in a raid of the house of a man named Phan Trong Kien in Hoang Liet commune on July 17. The sacks were found in a room on the third floor of the house and...
Hundreds of Vietnamese holiday-makers have been suffered food poisoning in Vietnam’s central coastal region where sea water has been polluted by a huge volume of toxic waste discharged by the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant, state media has reported....
