Heavy rains in the past weeks has resulted in high level of water and strong curents on streamlines and rivers in northern provicne of Điện Biên. Despite the danger, local children have taken risks to gather floating woods in fierce streams.

An exhibition of 200 photos and documents of the Nghê – a sacred animal that guards temples and communal houses – has been in display at the central city’s Fine Arts Museum, promoting the unique feature of the traditional art of Việt Nam that had been preserved in the community for centuries.

The Food and Tourism Week opens today in the Golden City area in Long Xuyên City in southern province of An Giang.

 France-based Vietnamese film director Trần Anh Hùng will host a talk on the Special Language of Cinema on August 17 and 20 in HCM City.

Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh on Thursday chaired a meeting in Hà Nội with representatives of ministries and agencies to review preparations for the World Economic Forum (WEF) on ASEAN slated on September 11-13 in the capital city.

The timber and forestry products processing industry must strive to achieve exports of at least US$9 billion this year and $12-23 billion by 2020, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has said.

The Việt Nam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment (VACNE) has recognised a group of 400 Pơ Mu (Fokienia hodginsii) trees in the forest of mountainous Tây Giang District in Quảng Nam Province as Heritage Trees.

Bestselling author Haruki Murakami, who rarely appears in public, delighted fans on Sunday as he made his radio debut with a one-off music show.

Recently, children living near Nậm Mức stream in Búng Giắt Village in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên have started to risk their lives fishing wood from the swiftly-flowing floodwaters.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc will chair a meeting on wood processing industry and forestry exports in HCM City on August 8, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Việt Nam Administration of Forestry has announced.