Domestic and foreign investors are channeling more funds to the local water supply as water prices continue to rise.

When you think of a shop without employees, you probably think of futuristic places staffed by robots in Japan.

Ongoing assistance will see Vietnam's private sector truly become a driver of economic growth, stakeholders said.

Thien Minh Group has announced that its Kite Air will launch in the first quarter of 2020 with six aircraft and investment capital of VND5.5 trillion.

The closure of much of the Mon Hue chain has demonstrated the risk that food and beverage businesses can suffer from, as the collapse cements that attracting investment funds does not equal an ability to balance the books. 

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and central Da Nang City will build a lab together to accelerate the socio-economic development and achievement of Sustainable Development Goals of the city.

Hoang Anh Gia Lai FC signed Vietnamese-American player Steven Dang on a one-year contract, the club announced yesterday.

The Vietnamese government has made the latest bold move in a bid to further accelerate the long-lasting equitisation of state-owned enterprises. 

Nguyen Chi Dung, Minister of Planning and Investment, talks to the Government portal on what the country has done to help the Mekong Delta region develop sustainability.

Japan’s information technology is developing well, but it lacks staff and is looking to hire Vietnamese software engineers.

Leaders of 16 Asia-Pacific countries, including Japan, China, and India, on November 4 issued a joint statement on the postponing of the signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to 2020 instead of 2019 as scheduled.

The Vietnamese Embassy in India held a press conference on November 4 to announce the Vietnam's Month with dozens of events in localities nationwide to further reinforce bilateral ties.

The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will stage the crime opera Yesterday’s Memory at the HCM City Opera House on November 17.

National Assembly (NA) General Secretary Nguyen Hanh Phuc on November 5 delivered an initial report to deputies on Vietnam’s response to issues related to Vietnamese victims in the recent lorry tragedy in Essex, the UK.

The owner of a food processing facility in Ho Chi Minh City was sentenced to one and half a year in prison on Friday for breaking food safety regulations, according to court reports.

The Vietnam Register announced not to issue certificates for vehicles using maps with the “nine-dash line” in its document.

Vietnamese director Pham Ngoc Lan has won the grand prize “Uppsala Grand Prix” at the Uppsala International Short Film Festival in Sweden for his short film “Mot khu dat tot” (Blessed land).

In a report sent to the NA, the Government pointed out that the volatile exchange rate between the Vietnamese dong and the Japanese yen is one of the main reasons for cost overruns in HCMC’s Metro Line No.1 project.

Law enforcement agencies have so far collected a whopping VND8.845 trillion (US$382 million) to recover losses from a murky share acquisition between State-run MobiFone Telecommunications Corporation and a private pay TV provider.

Nguyen Duc Chung, chairman of Hanoi City’s government, on behalf of the municipal leaders, has pledged to learn from past mistakes in handling the water contamination incident involving the Da River.

Vietnam Travel Airlines Co., Ltd, or Vietravel Airlines, on November 4 announced the appointment of Livio Arizzi, an Italian pilot, as the firm’s deputy general director as part of its airline establishment plan.

Vietnam has become one of a few countries in the world to master microtia ear reconstruction (MER), thanks to efforts from the Hanoi-based Vietnam - Germany Friendship Hospital.

The reported low-pressure area in the East Sea is strengthening its power and likely to develop into a new storm in the next 24 hours, as forecast by the national weather service.

The United States began on Monday (November 4) the process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, according to a statement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The 2019 World Circus Festival, themed ‘New chapter for a wonder’, will be held in Ha Long City, in the northern province of Quang Ninh, from November 11-17.