Society
Tourism links would boost activity in each locality, contribute to the promotion of local tourism brands in the domestic market and enhance the competitiveness of Vietnamese tourism in the international market, vice chairwoman of the HCM City People's Committee Phan Thị Thắng said at a recent forum on linking tourism development.
Life & Style
For the first time ever, young Tinder users joined an iconic double-decker bus ride “Tinder Khám Phá - Bus nhịp trái tim” (Tinder Explore - Match Your Vibe bus) to explore exciting dating spots in HCM City.
Sports
Quách Thị Lan has earned a place at the World Athletics Championship in Eugene, Oregon, the US, where she will face off against the best athletes in the world this month.
Life & Style
The first ever media trip titled Visit Huế has just been organised by local authorities for popular Vietnamese travel bloggers and tiktokers to advertise the destination to young people in Việt Nam and all over the world.
Life & Style
Thừa Thiên - Huế has not been famed with the former royal citadel with valuable architecture of palaces, royal tombs, and spiritual institutions, the province also host various natural landscapes including spectacular lakes.
Environment
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bạc Liêu is speeding up afforestation and stepping up protection of existing forests.
Politics & Laws
Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Trần Thanh Mẫn and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China Wang Chen held online talks on June 29.
Media-OutReach
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Economy
Supply of goods and services for the domestic market during the first half of the year has been ample with a slight uptick observed for a number of commodities, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) during a conference in Hà Nội yesterday.
Society
The number of foreign tourists visiting Việt Nam in the first two quarters of 2022 increased 6.8 times over the same period of 2021, reaching 602,000, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Society
Chợ Rẫy-Phnom Penh Hospital was put into operation in 2014 under a project of investment cooperation between Việt Nam and Cambodia. Most of the doctors there were transferred from Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City to work at the hospital.
Media-OutReach
Warner Bros. Discovery partners with Shell in ‘Dare to Ride’
Society
The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant BA.5 has been detected in Việt Nam and may overwhelm the variant BA.2 which is dominant in the country, according to Prof. Dr. Phan Trọng Lân, Director of the Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine.
Life & Style
The central province of Thừa Thiên Huế has been drawing in tourists with this year’s Huế Festival, promoting its image after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Nguyễn Thanh Bình, vice chairman of the provincial People’s Committee.
Society
UNWTO's Destination Tracker tool showed that 52 countries have fully reopened their borders to foreign tourists as of June 17 and Việt Nam is one of only four in the Asia-Pacific, said Harry Hwang, executive director of the Asia-Pacific region for UNWTO.
Talk Around Town
Local residents and environmentalists have been spreading the news that UNESCO Việt Nam has opposed an official letter from the Đồng Nai People's Committee consulting on a contractor's proposal to build a 40km highway with a bridge across the core zone of the Đồng Nai Biosphere Reserve.
Society
Hà Nội's Department of Transport has proposed the municipal People's Committee to allow passenger cars with 24 seats or more, official vehicles, ambulances and fire trucks to use Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lanes in the capital.
Media-OutReach
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Society
Technology in remote health centres is helping improve the quality of life for patients living in mountainous areas.
Economy
Việt Nam is predicted to have high growth prospects in the region, at more than 6.5 per cent in 2022.