Giving plastic waste a new life

Everyone can protect the environment in many ways, including recycling plastic waste. In response to World Environment Day 2020, let’s meet some youngsters who have given plastic waste a new life!

Couple cycle from France to Vietnam to raise money for charity

As bike rides go, this one really takes the biscuit. A newlywed couple cycled from France all the way to Vietnam. 

Phu Quoc seeks to become Vietnam’s first island city

If you like to dive into reefs, kayak in bays, hire a motorbike to explore, or just lounge on a beach, Phu Quoc Island is what you are looking for.

Coach Park among the best coaches in Asia: Fox Sports

Fox Sports Asia has selected Vietnam’s coach Park Hang-seo as one of the nine best coaches in Asia.

Unique Vietnam Press Museum to be inaugurated this week

A number of rare items and documents which mark significant events in the history of the Vietnamese revolutionary press are set to be showcased to guests at the first-ever Vietnam Press Museum in Hanoi when it opens on June 19.

Vietnam unique lychee market in full swing

An annual lychee market held in Luc Ngan district of the northern province of Bac Giang is regularly bustling with trade each June, with the locality also serving to send shipments to provinces nationwide and several markets worldwide.

Will private tutoring be considered a conditional business in Vietnam?

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has sent a dispatch to the National Assembly’s Economics Committee and Ministry of Planning and Investment on adding private tutoring to the list of conditional business fields.

Musical drama for children to be restaged

The musical drama Tấm Cám (Tấm and Cám), a production written by Hung Lam, will be restaged in a new version 20 years after its first release in HCM City.

Traffic congestion still a big problem for Hanoi

Despite numerous attempts by the Hanoi authorities to ease traffic congestion in the capital, roads still remain crowded.

Instagram 'will overtake Twitter as a news source'

Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests.

 

Youths among Vietnamese people who have switched to used phones

The use of second-hand mobile phones is a growing trend, including among youths, because of their reasonable prices and the lack of need for many technologies in high-priced new phones.

 

UPCoM-traded firms seek ways for bourse switch

Unlisted public companies are planning to move to the Ho Chi Minh and Ha Noi stock exchanges to increase share liquidity and capital.

 

Coronavirus: Beijing tightens controls amid spike in local cases

The Chinese capital has seen 100 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases, the WHO says.

Social distancing paintings on display in Hanoi

The People newspaper and the Vietnam Fine Arts Association displayed paintings created during social distancing on Monday in Hanoi.

Rice exports set to jump, renewable energy in high demand: Vietnamese trade minister

Vietnam may take a global lead in rice exports in 2020, a trade report to the National Assembly on Monday showed. 

Senior economist projects "swoosh-shaped" recovery for Vietnam

It won’t be a V-shaped recovery, but a swoosh-shaped recovery like Nike’s logo: the economy will go down and then bounce back beginning in 2021, according to BIDV’s chief economist Can Van Luc.

Vietnamese export goods face 12 trade remedy cases in H1

The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam announced that 12 trade remedy cases were initiated by foreign countries and territories for Vietnamese goods in the first six months of this year.

 

North Korea 'blows up joint liaison office' with South

North Korea blows up the joint liaison office with the South in border town of Kaesong.

Beauty queens shine in Ao Dai bearing images of national sea and islands

Ngoc Han, Miss Vietnam 2010, participated in a press conference on June 16 alongside many other beauty queens to launch a national marathon championship by Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper in Hanoi.

Domestic pork prices fall as pigs imported in large volume

The price of pork in the domestic market has been experiencing a downward trajectory in recent days after the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) granted permission to local firms to import live pigs from Thailand.

Coronavirus: US withdraws emergency use of hydroxychloroquine

President Trump defends promoting hydroxychloroquine as the FDA says there is no evidence it works.

The Coast Guard Region 2 completes 100% of the phase-I combat training plan in H1

In the first 6 months of 2020, the High Command of the Coast Guard Region 2 completed 100 percent of the phase I combat training plan with high quality and efficiency.

He Xiangjian: China arrests five after attempt to kidnap billionaire

Five people have been arrested after an attempt to kidnap He Xiangjian, one of China's richest men.

Hundreds of Chinese experts granted permission to enter Vietnam for work

The Vietnamese Government has officially permitted 331 Chinese experts, business managers, and highly-skilled workers to enter and work in the country, according to a statement released by the Government Office.

Vietnamese peacekeepers report on COVID-19 prevention

Vietnamese forces engaged in UN peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic and South Sudan reported on the COVID-19 situation in their areas via a video conference in Hanoi on Monday.