Four Vietnamese business people has been recognised as world billionaires in Forbes magazine's 2020 list of the world’s richest people.

While the majority of businesses shamble in the shadow of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic in Vietnam, delivery services are on a roll.

Top 10 world events of 2019 selected by Vietnam News Agency

The Republic of Korea is one of Vietnam’s leading partners, ranking first in investment, second in official development assistance provision after Japan, and third in trade.

Vietnam’s achievements at 15 SEA Games events

Vietnam aims to raise its ranking of e-government according to the United Nations assessment from 10 to 15 levels by 2020.

Vietnam was the first country in Asia and the second in the world to ratify United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990.

Hue folk singing is a variation of Hue royal court music, played on traditional musical instruments with the singers dressed in the ao dai (traditional long dress).

Average consumer price index in the first 9 months marks the lowest rise in the past three years.

Vietnam is expected to post a trade surplus of nearly 6 billion USD in the first nine months of this year.

Vietnam attracted 26.16 billion USD in foreign direct investment in the first nine months of this year, up 3.1% compared to the same period last year.

A project of planting flowers and hanging house number signs is successfully carried out in many rural areas in Hanoi.

Cu Lao Cham, covering 40,000 ha, is regarded as the only biosphere reserve in the world linking nature and urban space.

Thailand ranks 9th among 132 countries and territories investing in Vietnam.

“Once you love Vietnam, you’ll love its food forever, too,” the Guardian said, advising visitors to Vietnam to try bánh đa cá and bánh cuốn dipped in a sauce that balances salt, sweet, spice and sour flavours, take coffee in a tiny cafe and tuck into heavenly soft and chewy black fermented sticky rice with frozen yoghurt (sữa chua nếp cẩm).

Vietnam’s Index of Industrial Production (IIP) in the first five months of 2019 increased by 9.4% year-on-year with manufacturing and processing being key players.