The industrialisation and modernisation process implemented over the last 10 years according to resolutions of the Party’s 8th and 9th National Congresses has brought about important socio-economic changes to the country. However, the process has still been delayed and inconsistent in comparison to its strategic objectives...

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a single-party state. A new state constitution was approved in April 1992, replacing the 1975 version.

The following article gives overall objectives, main targets, major tasks and resolutions set out in Vietnam’s five-year socio-economic development plan for 2006-2010 adopted by the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Resolution No. 56/2006/QH11 dated June 29, 2006:

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Vietnam at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund.

Viet Nam will accelerate its programme of equitisation of State-owned enterprises (SoEs) in a bid to finish the process by 2009, said Finance Minister Vu Van Ninh

GDP, Population, Labour force, Budget, Industrial production, Electricity, Agriculture, Exports and Imports, Debt, Economic aid and Currency.

Vietnam is now the world's largest robusta coffee, cashew nuts and pepper exporter, and the second largest rice exporter worldwide.

The Culture of Vietnam is one of the oldest of such in the Southeast Asia region. Although Vietnam lies geographically in Southeast Asia, long periods of Chinese domination and influence has resulted in the emergence of many East Asian characteristics in Vietnamese culture, and generally Vietnam is said to be part of the East Asian cultural sphere, known widely as Chinese cultural sphere.

In the past, Vietnam did not have "science" in its generally accepted meaning, but many fields were well developed, especially social science and humanities.

Vietnam's education system can be divided into 5 categories: pre-primary, primary, intermediate, secondary, and higher education.