Vietnam strongly committed to promoting gender equality, women's rights: Ambassador Delivering a speech at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) of the UN Economic and Social Council in New York, Vice State President Vo Thi Anh Xuan expressed Vietnam's high-level commitment to ensuring gender equality and women's rights as well as its multifaceted engagement and contributions to this priority area, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang has assessed. 21:52 | 15/03/2024
2024 National Press Festival opens in Ho Chi Minh City The 2024 National Press Festival kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on March 15 as a significant preparation step towards the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Revolutionary Press Day. 21:56 | 15/03/2024
Hue – Da Nang heritage train route to become operational in late March A train route connecting the central city of Da Nang and Hue city of the central province of Thua Thien – Hue named “Central Heritage Connection” will be put into operation in late March on the occasion of the Liberation Day of Thua Thien – Hue (March 26) and Da Nang (March 29). 11:14 | 15/03/2024
Quang Ninh province to attract 7 FDI projects in March Quang Ninh expects to receive an additional seven foreign direct investment (FDI) projects from the US, China and Taiwan (China) in March. 16:15 | 15/03/2024
Quang Ninh boasts unique cultural values Quang Ninh has not only been famous as the largest coal industrial region in Vietnam but also its precious natural and cultural heritages, both given by nature and created by humans. Its culture has interference, convergence, and unity in the diversity of Red River civilisation including marine culture, mine worker culture, the unique culture of ethnic minorities and the Buddhist culture of Truc Lam Yen Tu. 08:25 | 16/03/2024
Viet Nam Airlines to launch new routes to Germany The national flag carrier Viet Nam Airlines will launch two new routes from Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City to Germany’s Munich from this October. 10:05 | 14/03/2024
Domestic coffee prices at record high New records have continuously been set in the prices of coffee in Central Highlands localities recently, now standing at over 90,000 VND (3.65 USD) per kilo. 16:05 | 14/03/2024
Vietnam remains high human development country: UNDP Resident Representative Vietnam has remained a high human development country through the difficult years of the COVID-19 pandemic, and human development continues to be a focus of the country’s development strategy, UNDP Resident Representative Ramla Khalidi said, as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced its new report on late March 13. 16:05 | 14/03/2024
Insurance premium revenue rebounds in the first 2 months Total insurance premium revenue in the first two months of 2024 was estimated at 33.9 trillion VND (1.4 billion USD), up 1.6% over the same period last year, the Ministry of Finance’s latest data showed. 16:05 | 14/03/2024
Viet Nam-ADB partnership should focus on new fronts Viet Nam and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) should focus their partnership on such key areas like climate change and strategic infrastructure works and new fronts like semiconductor chip, digital economy, green transformation, sharing economy, circular economy, and private sector development. 09:30 | 14/03/2024
