Hanoi is planning to develop satellite urban areas as part of an effort to widen local space and ease pressure from overcrowding in the inner city. Part of the software village in the Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park of Hanoi (Photo: VNA) In its development plan for 2030, with a vision towards 2050, Hanoi has planned to establish five satellite...

A Vietnam Airlines flight en route from Germany to Ho Chi Minh City made an emergency landing at Baku Heydar Aliyev Airport of Azerbaijan on late October 6 to save a German passenger with health problem. A plane of Vietnam Airlines (Photo: VNA) The national flag carrier said Flight VN30, departing Frankfurt Airport for HCM City at 7:40pm on...

Vietnam is placed 48th among 132 economies in the Global Innovation Index 2022. Officials visit the IoT (Internet of Things) Innovation Hub at Hoa Lạc Hi-tech Park in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA) The country also ranks 2nd out of 36 economies in the lower middle-income group, with a performance above expectation for the level of development. Vietnam continues to...

Science and technology create new vitality for rural areas, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan has said. Illustrative image (Source: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) Speaking at a conference reviewing the Science and Technology Programme for New Rural Development in the 2016-2021 period and plans for the next five years, Hoan said on October 3...

The Law on Vietnam's Border Guard, consisting of 6 chapters and 36 articles, was approved by the National Assembly on November 11, 2020, and takes effect from January 1, 2022. To bring the law to life, relevant levels, sectors and agencies have deployed diverse and creative forms of propaganda. Ba Son Border Guard Station, Cao Loc district is responsible...

Secretary General of the France-Vietnam Friendship Association Jean-Pierre Archambault has stated that achievements in ensuring human rights in Vietnam are undeniable. Secretary General of the France-Vietnam Friendship Association Jean-Pierre Archambault. (Photo: VNA) In an interview recently granted to Vietnam News Agency in Paris on the occasion of Vietnam’s run for a seat at the United Nations Human Rights Council...

The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau handed over eight rescued Myanmar fishermen to representatives of the Myanmar Embassy in Vietnam on October 5. At the handover ceremony (Photo: VNA) The handover ceremony was jointly held by the provincial Border Guard Command, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Public Security. A representative from the Myanmar...

The National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology has for the first time successfully bred twins who were born at 25 weeks, each weighing just 500g. The twins are in a stable condition. (Photo: Suckhoedoisong.vn) The twins, one boy and one girl, were born on May 16 to a mother infected with COVID-19 in Hanoi’s district of Ung Hoa. As...

The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) on October 5 received a token of COVID-19 prevention and control aid worth some 1.8 billion VND (75,408 USD) from the Vietnamese Buddhist cultural centre in the Republic of Korea (RoK). At the handover ceremony in Hanoi (Photo: baoquocte.vn) The aid consists of 5,000 bottles of nasal and throat...

Sailing Ship 286-Le Quy Don of the Vietnam Naval Academy and a delegation of the Vietnam People’s Navy arrived at Lumut port in the Malaysian state of Perak on October 4, beginning a visit to Malaysia. Sailing Ship 286-Le Quy Don of the Vietnam Naval Academy. (Photo: qdnd.vn) At a reception for the Vietnamese delegation, Rear Admiral Farizal Myeor,...