Vietnam in foreigners’ eyes

The US-based online marketplace Airbnb has announced its Top 10 destinations based on projected 2017 summer tourism demand, including Hanoi.

More and more Japanese firms want to expand investment in Vietnam, Chairman of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) Hiroyuki Ishige has said.

The media in Argentina has published work praising late President Ho Chi Minh’s contribution to national liberation on the occasion of the 127th anniversary of his birthday (May 19th, 1890).

The debut of the novel "The quarantine" by writer Lorenzo Angeloni, former Italian Ambassador to Vietnam, translated into Vietnamese by Tran Hong Hanh, was recently organized in Hanoi

The Egyptian National Television on May 6th broadcast live a program introducing about Vietnam for the third time.

While deploying its open foreign policy, multilateralization and diversification of international relations, Vietnam attaches great importance to strengthening and enhancing friendship and cooperation with countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, including the Republic of Armenia.

On April 26th, a statue named “Vietnam Pieta” was inaugurated at the St. Francis Peace Centre on Juju, Island, the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Vietnam ups 30 places in the latest KOF index of globalisation ranking released by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland on April 20th.

Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature under the National University of Kiev on April 19th opened a photo exhibition titled "Vietnam: country and people" to introduce and promote the image of the country, people, investment and tourism potential of Vietnam.

Investment from the Republic of Korea (RoK) in Vietnam is being spread across a wider range of fields as Korean investors now consider Vietnam not only a for-export manufacturing workshop but also a potential consumption market.

Ho Chi Minh city expects to have more than 180,000 square meters of new office supply on the market in 2017, of which more than half will be concentrated in the central business district, according to Cushman & Wakefield Vietnam’s first quarter report on the city’s office market.

Vietnam ranked 67th among 136 countries and territories globally on the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index 2017, recently released by the World Economic Forum.

(CPV) - A transformation of Viet Nam’s agriculture sector is vital for lifting growth and enabling Viet Nam to graduate to upper-middle-income status, ADB said in a new flagship report launched on April 10th 2017.

Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia has received the 2016 Prince Claus Awards from the Embassy of the Netherlands.

After a trip to Vietnam, a South African artist named Rory Allen has made a time-lapse video, recording "magic" charms throughout the S-shaped country.

The opening ceremony of the 2017 ASEAN Film Festival was launched at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 27th.

(CPV) – The central coastal city of Da Nang continues to be nominated as Asia’s Leading Festival and Event Destination at the World Travel Awards 2017, reported the city Tourism Promotion Centre.

The Roughguides travel website has suggest the cheapest places to travel in Spring 2017, in which Vietnam is praised as the ideal spot for street food.

Long Beach on Phu Quoc Island (Kien Giang province) and Ha My Beach in the central coastal province of Quang Nam have been selected among Asia’s 16 most beautiful beaches by the UK’s Telegraph.

The Telegraph has listed the Hanoi – Hoi An tour among the world’s Top 10 adventure holidays for families, with reasonable costs.

Vietnam and Israel should work together in the spirit of creativity and innovation to strengthen bilateral economic cooperation. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin made the suggestion in a recent interview with Vietnam News Agency on the run up to his upcoming official visit to Vietnam from March 19th – 25th.

Vietnam’s Con Dao Island has been named among the Top 12 crowd-free Asia island escapes by the US Cable News Network (CNN).

Two Vietnamese beaches have been named among the Top 25 beaches in Asia in 2017 by the famous travel website TripAdvisor.

(CPV) - The UK newspaper Telegraph has listed Hanoi among the world's 17 greatest cities for food.

Director Vogt-Roberts has expressed his good sentiment for Vietnam, especially on scenes in his film in Quang Binh.

Major global news agencies have reported the visit by Japanese King Akihito and Empress Michiko to Vietnam.

(CPV) – “Every day I walk or run along the coastline – its very beautiful. Its like this is the Hawaii of Vietnam! I think its too beautiful, because – we don't want to work, its very hard to focus on our work,” said Mr. Carlos Kuriyama, Senior Analyst, Policy Support Unit, APEC Secretariat.

(CPV) – “The role of oceans and fisheries is very important in the APEC region for food security,” Mr. Patrick Edward Moran, a delegate of the United States, Chairman of the 8th Ocean and Fisheries Working Group Meeting, talked to the reporter of the Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper on February 26th 2017.

Many representatives from 21 APEC member economies have showed a good impression about Nha Trang city in the south central province of Khanh Hoa, which is hosting the first APEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM1) and related meetings.

About 76% of European companies expressed optimism about business prospects in Vietnam in 2017, higher than its Business Climate Index (BCI) survey for the fourth quarter of 2016.