The Mekong Delta coastal province of Soc Trang, located some 240 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City and 60km from Can Tho city, has immense potential as a wind power generation hub.

An ageing population is posing a challenge to Vietnam’s health sector as healthcare services for the elderly are suffering from a number of shortcomings.

Vietnam’s export value to the Republic of Korea (RoK) over the first 10 months of 2013 reached 5.49 billion USD, up 25 percent year-on-year.

The Mekong Delta has targeted an annual rice output of 24 million tonnes from 2020 to 2030 to remain as the country’s top rice producer.

An operation to separate conjoined twins connected together from the upper thorax to the lower belly was reported to be a success on November 26 after a more-than-eight-hour surgery at Paediatric H

The Japanese Government has pledged to provide nearly 580,000 USD in non-refundable aid to five infrastructure projects in Vietnam.

Vietnamese businesses have won a bid to export 500,000 tonnes of rice to the Philippines , according to Vietnam Food Association President Truong Thanh Phong.

Positive changes are being recorded in Ho Chi Minh City’s economy, with good growth rate in the trade and service sector and signs of recovery in industry production.

A study entitled “Economy and happiness: Evidence from Vietnam’s rural areas” has found that marriage makes people happier. Report by Dan Tri newspaper.

The Regional Advisory Safety Committee for Research Reactors in Asia and the Pacific (RASCAP) on November 25 held a workshop on the safety of nuclear research reactors, in Da Lat city, the central