The assembly earlier on Tuesday passed an amendment to a Law on Organising the Government, paving the way for a cull of 15% to 20% of the state apparatus that will include five ministries, four agencies and five state television channels, among other cuts. Vietnam’s National Assembly will on Tuesday approve a bold bureaucratic reform […]
Read MoreMinister of Digital Development, Innovation, and Communications of Mongolia Baatarkhuu Tsend met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Tuan Thanh on January 8, 2024. At the outset of the meeting, Minister of Digital Development, Innovation, and Communications of Mongolia Baatarkhuu Tsend highlighted that as part of the 70th-anniversary celebration […]
Read MoreThe United States was defeated in a nearly two-decade-long defensive war. Thousands of US troops left Vietnam with the shame of defeat. Nearly 50 decades have passed since then. Many of those soldiers who returned home have died. Some of those who survived are returning to Vietnam again. The question is, why are US troops […]
Read MoreTwelve Vietnamese soldiers were killed in an apparently accidental explosion while in training in southern Vietnam, state media reported late on Wednesday. The explosion took place on Monday night at a military shooting range of the 7th Military Region in Dong Nai province, the official Vietnam News Agency reported. Most of the bodies of the […]
Read MoreThe People’s Council of Thái Bình Province has approved the zoning plan for a pharmaceutical–biological industrial park that will be built in the province’s Quỳnh Phu District. With a total cost of VNĐ3.8 trillion (US$149.5 million), the park will be developed on an area of 334 hectares that spans three communes of Trang Bảo Xá, […]
Read MoreThe semiconductor back-end manufacturing sector, which is less capital-intensive than more strategic front-end chipmaking in foundries, is currently dominated by China and Taiwan, but Vietnam is among the fastest-growing countries in the $95 billion segment. Foreign companies are expanding capacity in Vietnam for testing and packaging chips while domestic firms are eyeing investments, as a […]
Read MoreVietnam’s Communist Party head To Lam has congratulated Donald Trump on his US presidential election victory in a phone call and the two discussed ways their countries could boost economic ties, the communist party said on Tuesday. The United States is Vietnam’s largest export market, and in September last year the two countries upgraded their […]
Read MoreThe coast guard forces of Việt Nam and Indonesia conducted a joint exercise on search and rescue, firefighting and explosion prevention at sea in the waters off the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu on October 11. Participating in the joint exercise were officers, soldiers, and crew members from vessel CSB 8001 of Việt Nam’s […]
Read MoreGross domestic product grew 7.4% year-on-year in the third quarter, surpassing the second quarter’s revised 7.09% expansion, the government’s General Statistics Office said in a report. Vietnam reported its strongest economic growth in two years in the quarter to end-September, as strong exports and industrial production and rising foreign investment offset the effects last month […]
Read MoreThe deaths occurred in August and September at the private My Quynh safari park in Long An province and the Vuon Xoai zoo in Dong Nai. Forty-seven tigers, three lions and a panther have died in zoos in south Vietnam due to the H5N1 bird flu virus, state media said Wednesday. The deaths occurred in […]
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