Gathering more than 600 delegates, the Việt Nam-Australia Forum 2024 marks an important milestone following the elevation of their bilateral relations to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in March, as well as Việt Nam’s upcoming 40th anniversary of Đổi Mới (Renewal).
Việt Nam's culture has been brought closer to the Sri Lankan people through various programmes held by monks at the Trúc Lâm Zen Monastery in Kandy city.
This figure surpasses the record set by the Cát Linh – Hà Đông railway line, the first one to be operational in Hà Nội and in the country, which saw 25,680 passengers on the opening day.
Hundreds of people queued at the stations to receive free tickets on the first day of the Nhổn – Hà Nội urban railway line's opening. At the ticket counters, staff enthusiastically guided passengers to the correct boarding areas and assisted them with purchasing tickets quickly and conveniently.
The Korea Trade and Investment Promotion Agency in Hanoi (Kotra Hanoi), part of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea (RoK) in Vietnam, held a conference on Vietnam-RoK co-operation in the semiconductor industry on August 6.
Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc and Second Minister for Finance of Singapore Chee Hong Tat witnessed the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Vietnam Stock Exchange (VNS) and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) after their working session held on August 5.
The Prime Minister has approved the transfer of the National Load Dispatch Center (A0) to the MoIT, which will now be known as the National Power System and Market Operation One Member Limited Company (NSMO).
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cross-border co-operation between the Lai Chau Economic Zone Management Board and the administration of Jinping district in Yunnan province in China was signed on July 30 in the northern province of Lai Chau.
The Republic of Korea (RoK)'s smart farm sector is gaining greater motivation to penetrate the Vietnamese market as a basis for further expansion into Southeast Asia thanks to advanced technology, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) said on July 18.
The U.S. market accounts for nearly 40 percent of Vietnam’s total wood export turnover, which was heard at a seminar on greening logistics and FIATA World Congress 2025 in Hanoi on July 10.
The Vietnam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT)'s information centre officially launched a promotional video for railway tourism on July 9 in conjunction with the 64th founding anniversary of the sector in Vietnam (1960-2024).
Pacific Airlines, a subsidiary of the Vietnam Airlines Group, took off again on domestic routes with a fleet of Airbus A321 aircraft from June 26 following a restructuring period.
Vietnamese and Australian institutions have witnessed extensive collaboration, with almost 5,000 joint research papers published over the last three years.
The Indian Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City desires to set up additional programmes aimed at promoting tourist destinations in the Mekong Delta such as Can Tho city to the Indian people, said Madan Mohan Sethi, consul general of India in Ho Chi Minh City, on June 19.
In the first five months of 2024, Việt Nam welcomed 213,000 Australian visitors, an increase of 35 per cent over the same period last year, making Australia the seventh largest source of tourists to Việt nam.
The University of Sydney on June 18 announced the official launch of the University of Sydney Vietnam Institute, a non-profit social enterprise wholly owned by the University of Sydney.
Effective Implementation (EI) score in the safety assurance of the Vietnamese aviation industry reached 77.1 percent, an increase of 11.54 percent compared to the assessment results in 2016.
From the opening day on December 22, 2023 to April 30, 2024, more than 61,262 books were sold on Thu Duc City Book Street, generating a total revenue of over VND4.5 billion (US$176,000).
The coastal city of Da Nang and Germany’s Thuringia state have agreed to set up co-operative relations in the fields of human resource development, investment, trade, science, innovation, and cultural exchanges.
