Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 24 attended the ground-breaking ceremony of a smart city in Gangseo district, Busan city, the Republic of Korea.

The Australian Government has just offered 50 scholarships to 36 female and 14 male emerging leaders from Vietnam to study masters programs at Australia’s educational institutions in 2020.

Tickets for the Thailand-Vietnam SEA Games 30 football match have sold out quickly online.    

Sasaki Associates Inc, a US architecture and design solution provider, won first prize in an international competition on planning concepts for interactive and innovative urban areas in HCM City's eastern side (districts 2, 9 and Thủ Đức).

Two Vietnamese scientists have been selected to the list of 2019 Highly Cited Researchers according to the Web of Science.

Vietnam Television (VTV) have announced they will cancel the long-running satirical Tao Quan (The Kitchen Gods) comedy this coming Lunar New Year.

A Vietnamese delegation, led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son, is attending the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Nagoya city in Aichi prefecture of Japan.

Lien Chieu Port to play key role for a sustainable Da Nang

Local authorities in HCM City's District 9 have removed a road signboard carrying the name of Vietnam national football coach Park Hang Seo.

The goal of having 30 percent of online public services at level 4 may be unattainable if the building of e-government does not succeed.

Strong tourism development has attracted regional investors to the hotel and resort market.

The purchase prices of solar power will be set through auction, instead of using a common price for the entire country, or different prices for different thermal radiation zones, according to officials.

The sinking of land in the Mekong Delta region is worsening, with its urban areas showing the highest rate of sinking, at a rate that is four times faster than in the countryside.

If Vietnam stops investments in new coal-fired thermopower projects, the total amount of coal it would consume could drop by 221 million tons by 2050.

Foreign investment in Vietnam through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the real estate sector between January and October 2019 rocketed 235% from a year earlier to a record high value of US$1.75 billion, data showed.

Vietnam has signed many free trade agreements (FTAs) since 2010 but its participation in so many FTAs makes no sense, noted Tran Toan Thang from the National Center for Socio-Economic Information and Forecast.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has issued a three-year road map, starting from 2020, to restrict commercial banks from using short-term capital to offer mid- and long-term loans to homebuyers.

With new foreign airlines setting up air routes to Vietnam and existing airlines increasing flight frequency, the Vietnamese aviation sector is becoming extremely busy.

HCM City plans to tighten management of public lands and apply information technology to increase the city’s revenues, a city official said yesterday at a meeting.

Tonnes of plastic waste, particularly discarded plastic bags threaten our planet with environmental pollution, and by now almost everybody knows it.

The Import-Export Department, under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, on November 21 told local importers and firms to closely inspect imports and ask their partners to ensure their products do not feature the illegal nine-dash line map.

Phan Thi Ngoc is 77 years old but still makes new blankets for poor people living in remote areas, child cancer patients and those living in shelters around the country.

Limited land and labor resources, increasing wages and a lack of local suppliers in Vietnam could make the cost/benefit equation less attractive for FD) firms in the foreseeable future, HSBC said in its latest Asia Frontier Insights report.

The HCMC Department of Transport will cooperate with the Vietnam Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers to monitor motorcycle emissions in districts 1, 3 and Binh Thanh from February to November next year.

The Vietnamese taekwondo team failed to hit its targets at the last two Southeast Asian Games, but the team is ready to shine again at this year's Games in the Philippines.