The formation of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015 is expected to boost Vietnam's Gross Domestic Production (GDP) by 14.5 percent and employment rate by 10.5 percent, according to a study by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Secretariats of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
A special Vietnamese envoy is visiting Beijing with the aim of patching up relations plagued by a territorial dispute in the South China Sea.
Vietnam's national air carrier Vietnam Airlines will open direct flights from Phu Quoc Island in southern Kien Giang province to Cambodia and Singapore from November this year, Vietnam's government portal reported Friday.
"Marine tourism is said to be dynamics of Vietnamese marine economy," said an official on Wednesday.
From disrupting a Chinese company's oil drilling operations to violence against foreign investors that has left two Chinese nationals dead, Vietnam has gone too far in its unfounded nationalism.
A Vietnamese top legislator on Monday pledged to use Japanese Official Development Assistance ( ODA) effectively during a reception to a Japanese delegation.
A total of 11 people have been killed by typhoon Rammasun in Vietnam as of Monday morning, said Vietnam' s National Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control.
Detian Falls, straddling the China-Vietnam border, attracts even more tourists in May, the wet season.
Accelerating the maritime Silk Road development became a heated topic at the 8th Pan-Beibu Gulf (PBG) Economic Cooperation Forum, as the initiative is expected to inject fresh impetus to regional growth.
Hiroshi Watanabe, governor of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) said during a visit to Vietnam on Tuesday that Japan will continue to maintain official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam despite a recent scandal relating to Japan's ODA in the country.
Vietnam has become the fourth biggest rubber exporter worldwide, according to Vietnam's Rubber Association (VRA) on Monday.
Vietnam asks Cambodian government to take effective measures to "prevent wrongdoings" by protesters in front of Vietnamese embassy in Cambodia, a Vietnamese official said on Thursday.
Vietnam on Tuesday strongly condemned ethnic minority Khmer Krom for holding an anti-Vietnam rally after a Vietnamese diplomat said the former Kampuchea Krom provinces belonged to Vietnam long before France's official transfer of the land in 1949.
As many as 29 among 30 death sentences were upheld for appellants involved in Vietnam's biggest drug case ever.
Vietnam and the Netherlands on Monday inked a series of documents aimed at boosting cooperation in the fields of agriculture and energy in Vietnam's capital Hanoi.
A Chinese envoy on Monday sent a note to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, presenting documents making clear Vietnam's provocation and China's stance regarding the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea.
The boss of a Chinese company hit by deadly riots earlier this month in Vietnam has said it has no timetable for resuming work in its steel project in the southeastern Asian country.
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