Vietnam in foreigners’ eyes

The third Vietnamese street food festival themed “Tet Viet” is taking place at the Hanoi-Moscow trade centre in Russia from February 16th-18th.

(CPV) - The Lunar New Year (Tet) is the most significant holiday of Vietnamese people because it not only marks the closing of an old year and the beginning of a new year, but also is an occasion for family reunions.

Da Nang city is one of the top 10 best places in the world for foreigners to live in 2018, according to the international tourism magazine Live and Invest Overseas (LIO).

As the Vietnamese economy is forecast to continue its high growth in 2018, more Japanese firms are likely to invest in the country, said Hironobu Kitagawa, chief representative of Japanese External Trade Organisation (JETRO) in Hanoi.

Vietnam is a magnet for investments from the Netherlands, said Chairman of the Dutch Business Association in Vietnam Edo Offerhaus.

Some Vietnamese banks have made meaningful progress in the resolution of legacy problem assets, a positive credit for the sector, Moody’s said on February 5th.

(CPV) - The “Report on Out-of-school children 2016: Vietnam country study” was announced in Hanoi on January 23rd by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) and the United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam.

The global database website Numbeo has released a ranking list of cities with the cheapest and most expensive cost of living in 2018.

Jonathan Young, Member of the New Zealand Parliament and head of the country’s delegation to APPF-26, shared his views on the ongoing 26th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-26) in an inclusive interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency.

Vietnam leaded Southeast Asian countries in the number of tourists visiting Japan over the last decade with a growth rate of 868.1 percent, according to the Nikkei website.

Standard Chartered Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh city on January 17th issued a global economic report, forecasting that Vietnam’s GDP will expand 6.8 percent in 2018.

(CPV) - Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has made Condé Nast Traveler's highly influential list of the best hotels in the world for 2018.

Rasmei Kampuchea, a newspaper with the largest readership in Cambodia, ran an article on January 10th highlighting Vietnam’s successes in multilateral diplomacy as Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is leading a high-ranking delegation to attend the second Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) Leaders’ Meeting in Phnom Penh.

Data released by Airbnb recently puts two major cities of Vietnam, Hanoi and Da Nang, among the world’s top 10 intriguing travel destinations in 2018.

International media have run articles highlighting that the year 2017 marked Vietnam’s rapid economic growth.

Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh has come second in a list of the “Top experiences in Vietnam”, according to Lonely Planet, a renowned travel publication.

The Vietnamese Embassy and Cuban Embassy in Mongolia organized a ceremony to mark the 57th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam - Cuba diplomatic relations and meet former Mongolian ambassadors and diplomatic officers to Vietnam and Cuba through periods in the capital Ulan Bator on December 23rd.

Mu Cang Chai district, home to breathtaking terraced rice fields in the northern mountain province of Yen Bai, has recently been voted among the 19 most visit-worthy destinations around the world by readers of US travel site Insider.

(CPV) - Viet Nam’s impressive achievements with respect to social and economic rights by making dramatic reductions in poverty and food insecurity must be balanced against growing concerns of adverse environmental impacts affecting people’s livelihoods, Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food has said.

The new law on securities should allow full foreign ownership at public companies and investment funds, according to members of the Vietnam Business Forum’s (VBF) working group on capital market.

Hoi An ancient city, Ha Long bay, and Phu Quoc island are among destinations loved by foreign tourists in Vietnam.

(CPV) - Stronger domestic demand, robust export-oriented manufacturing, and a gradual recovery of the agriculture sector, are driving Vietnam’s economy, which expanded by 6.4% during the first nine months of the year compared to the same period last year, says a new World Bank (WB) report.

(CPV) - One of the most important milestones for children’s rights is achieved in Viet Nam with the establishment of the first National Committee on Children chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister. The Committee will play an instrumental role in creating a new pathway on child rights implementation and to ensure that “no child is left behind” in the pursuit of sustaining progress towards the Sustain

The coastal city of Quy Nhon in the central province of Binh Dinh has been listed among the Top 10 winter sun destinations for 2018 by the famous British newspaper the Guardian.

Immigration New Zealand has announced that three Vietnamese sailors who had been detained by New Zealand authorities while being on board a Korean ship did not violate the law and are in good health condition.

Vietnam’s stock exchange development is forecast to overtake the Philippines in 2017, stated an article carried by the US financial news agency Bloomberg.

The British catering service CaterWings has announced the list of the world’s Top 100 culinary destinations after surveying thousands of restaurants and cafes.

Vietnam’s terraced fields are on the list of unbelievable landscapes for the second time, according to the vote of the Telegraph, a prestigious newspaper.

The urbanisation rate in Vietnam grew rapidly in the past decade from 30 percent in 2007 to 40 percent in 2017, according to Singapore-based United Morning Post.

International opinion continues to hail the APEC 2017 Summit Week in the central coastal city of Da Nang in Vietnam.