Hanoi Tourism Day opens

Hanoi Tourism Day opens

Hanoi Tourism Day opened on Sunday in Hanoi as part of the ongoing Hanoi flowers streets festival to welcome the New year 2012
Red Star Awards shining way to the future

Red Star Awards shining way to the future

Ten young entrepreneurs have been presented with Red Star awards in recognition of their outstanding business activities this year. The awardees are leaders or managers of prestigious businesses which generate billions of USD in revenue and...
Christmas jubilantly celebrated across Vietnam

Christmas jubilantly celebrated across Vietnam

Tens of thousands of Vietnamese people poured out into the streets to join with Catholics and Protestants on Christmas Eve. In Hanoi, crowds of young people were flocking to the city centre the early evening, packing major streets and causing traffic to grind to a halt. A Christmas atmosphere prevailed at churches such around the capital...
Vietnam seeks to boost its e-commerce

Vietnam seeks to boost its e-commerce

Vietnam aims to have 80% of its businesses having their own websites to update information about their products and promotion activities while half of providers of water, electricity, telecommunications and...
UN advises Vietnam to rethink industrial policies

UN advises Vietnam to rethink industrial policies

Vietnam and the UN have released the 2011 Vietnam Industrial Competitiveness Report. The document says that in order to restructure the industrial sector, the Vietnamese government should focus on five key areas. These include re-thinking industrial policies and strategies...
Overseas remittances soar

Overseas remittances soar

The volume of overseas remittances to Vietnam is estimated to reach nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars this year, 1.6 billion USD more than last year. According to the Ministry of Labor...
Book on Vietnam's East Sea launched

Book on Vietnam's East Sea launched

Titled “Vietnam and the East Sea”, the 40-page publication covers comprehensive issues relating to Vietnam’s waters in the East Sea, Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoàng Sa-Paracel...
WWF upgrades Vietnamese tra fish

WWF upgrades Vietnamese tra fish

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has announced that Vietnamese tra fish has been listed in the “Moving towards Certification” category in some European countries