Christmas pine trees’ longer journey from Denmark before arriving in Vietnam means they have a higher price than the more affordable trees from Russia.

Food and foodstuff producers may have no option but to increase prices as the cost of input material shoots up, increasing expenditures in production.

Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC) is following procedures to use money from tolls collected from four highway projects to pay the Japanese contractors of the Ben Luc – Long Thanh Expressway project.

As prices of fertilisers keep soaring to all-time highs and showing no signs of cooling down, the World Bank expects that the uptrend will continue next year. 

The Vietnam International Fashion Week (AVIFW) 2021 will take place at the Capital Studio in HCMC’s District 3 on December 21-23 after it was halted several times due to Covid-19.

The Communist Party’s Secretariat yesterday issued a decision to expel four officials from its membership for their violations of the Party’s regulations.

Hanoi’s leader reaffirmed on Wednesday that no large-scale lockdown was on the table currently amid a spike in COVID-19 cases in recent days.

The President of Kim Oanh Charity Foundation said that when entrepreneurs donate to the poor, they should not worry too much about other people’s negative opinions.

The Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi City scrapped the rapid Covid testing service today, December 16.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh reaffirmed Vietnam does not take side while he was addressing the 31st diplomatic conference on Wednesday.

First Economics-Defence Combination exhibition underway

The total number of overtime hours for workers in seasonal jobs and manufacturing to order has been capped at 300 hours per year, according to new regulations issued by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

PM orders solutions to reduce critical Covid cases, deaths

Nguyen Ngoc Manh, a truck driver, became known throughout the country after he saved a little girl who fell from a Hanoi apartment complex in February.

The Vietnamese government is calculating an additional plan for the development of power sources in the country, considering the contingency and reduction of coal power sources following the COP26 climate summit.

The Vietnamese dong has appreciated by around 2 percent against the US dollar in the last eleven months of this year. It is now to be seen whether this trend will continue in the coming year or not.

Vietnam Airlines and Air Lease Corporation (ALC) of the United States have reached an aircraft restructuring agreement related to the lease of 18 aircraft, including 12 Airbus A321Neo and 6 Boeing B787-10 under their current contract.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong was honoured with the Lenin Prize by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) at a ceremony held in Hanoi on December 15.

Many domestic enterprises are suffering serious losses or only fulfilling half of their annual plans due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but they are still managing to offer Tet (Lunar New Year) bonuses to their workers.

Vietnam has reiterated its support for the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) at a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Tuesday (local time). 

People in Ho Chi Minh City are flocking to try out the city's new public bicycle rental program for free during its first few days of operation.

Meta has announced the four most discussed topics of the year in Vietnam on their two social networking platforms Facebook and Instagram.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Pham Duc Long at the Vietnam Internet Day 2021 spoke on the topic "Recovery and breakthrough in the era of datafication".

The personal data of many Vietnamese users is being illegally appropriated and even traded in the cyberspace.

Consisting of three indexes for three types of businesses, the set of indicators developed by the Ministry of Information and Communications will be a common tool to assess the readiness and level of digital transformation of Vietnamese businesses.