Customs officials in Ho Chi Minh City discovered around 500 kilograms of ivory hidden in wooden blocks in two containers imported from Africa on November 24 night. This is the fifth shipment stopped by customs officials in Ho Chi Minh City since...
The Australian Embassy has announced that a new group of 53 Australia Awards scholars will leave Vietnam in early 2017 to undertake postgraduate studies in Australia. Among these scholarship recipients are 38 women and one disabled person. The...
A French-Vietnamese woman has returned to her home country to claim damages from the U.S. chemical companies that manufactured Agent Orange, a defoliant used by the U.S. during the American war in Vietnam, and work together with U.S. filmmakers on a...
A charitable art program raising fund for the poor will be organized at the Ho Chi Minh City Television’s Theater on November 25. The event will be jointly held by the Vietnamese Fatherland front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and Ho Chi Minh City...
Authorities of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho have requested the municipal Board for Religious Affairs and relevant agencies to roll out measures to preserve Khmer culture, which is on the verge of oblivion. Le Hung Yen, Deputy Director of the...
The second Gong Festival of the Muong ethnic minority group opened in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh on November 16. The event is part of activities to celebrate the 130th founding anniversary of the province and its 25 years of re-...
Belgium has committed to finance EUR3 million to support local governance in Vietnam’s provinces of Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Kon Tum under a newly-signed agreement, according to the Belgian Embassy in Vietnam. Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Planning and...
A Vietnamese company will operate a wind power plant costing VND1.1 trillion ($49.2 million) from Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), a German government-owned development bank, in the central province of Binh Thuan next week. Thuan Binh Wind...
A delegation from the World Bank (WB) early this week worked with authorities in the Mekong delta city of Can Tho to help the locality reduce flood risk amid worsening consequences caused by climate change in Vietnam. The WB’s Project Manager Marc...
The U.S. Agency for International Development will fund a $10 million project on preserving rare species through reducing demand for illegal wildlife products. U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius announced the project at a round-table talk on...
