2018 was a successful year for the wood industry, with the export of wood products earning the country over 8.9 billion USD (not including non-wood forestry products), up 14.5 percent from the previous year.
Localities in the central region need to pay special attention to enhancing regional connectivity in their development policies, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested at a meeting of the Council for the Central Key Economic Region in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on February 15.
Many fishermen in the central region have reported bumper catches during Tet (the Lunar New Year).
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 9 (the 5th of the first lunar month) offered incense at a Hanoi ceremony to celebrate the 230th Dong Da victory against the Qing invaders.
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) looks back at the ten most prominent events of Vietnam in 2018.
The Government allocated some 7,800 tonnes of rice to more than 520,000 impoverished people across the nation ahead of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet).
Traditional martial arts have been developing for centuries in Vietnam, with hundreds of styles nationwide, including Nam Hong Son, Tay Son Binh Dinh and Vovinam.
Bamboo Airways – the newest Vietnamese airline – launched an air route linking Ho Chi Minh City with the central province of Thanh Hoa on January 29, with the frequency of one flight per day.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Finance Ministry to allocate nearly 718 tonnes of rice from national reserves to Hoa Binh, Dak Lak and Kon Tum provinces on the occasion of the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.
More than 797 tonnes of rice from the national reserves have been granted to poor households in the central province of Ninh Thuan from January 24-26 ahead of the (Tet) Lunar New Year holiday.
The central province of Thua Thien – Hue has approved Kim Long Nam JSC’s investment in an auto manufacturing – assembly complex at the local Chan May – Lang Co economic zone.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to provide 19 magazines and publications for ethnic minority-inhabited, mountainous and disadvantaged regions in the 2019-2021 period.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to provide rice as food aid for people in northern and central provinces ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays.
Cu Mong tunnel, which connects the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Phu Yen, opened to traffic on January 21.
Property developer FLC Group has proposed to Hanoi authorities to invest in a large scale sports-tourism-entertainment complex, which includes a 100,000-seat stadium, in the capital’s suburbs.
The first commercial flight of Bamboo Airways officially took off at 6am on January 16.
More than 1,240 people in the central provinces of Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen, and Quang Nam, who became victims of Storm Damrey in late 2017, received support from a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project.
Two Philippine sailors who were had been drifting at sea for days were recently rescued by a fishing vessel in Vietnam’s central coastal province of Binh Dinh.
