One of the deepest hopes clinging to FDI is the transfer of technology to domestic firms with which the national economy expects to enhance its technological strength. However, such target has not seemed to be achieved.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mai Tien Dung, Minister and Chairman of the Office of the Government, talks to Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper about the Key Performance Indicator,

Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh led a delegation to attend the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference sessions with its partners, held in Singapore on August 2.

 The HCM City tax department said it has served a tax notice and slapped a fine on an individual together amounting to VND4.1 billion (US$178,000) for failure to pay tax on incomes received from foreign companies in the last two years.

 Only 150 of nearly 750 State-owned enterprises (SOEs) have listed on the stock market, said Deputy Minister of Finance Vu Thi Mai.

  The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV)’s exchange rate policy was aimed at ensuring macroeconomic stability, not just export growth, said Nguyen Thi Hong, the bank’s deputy governor.

 Living with worms and eating among the garbage. That's how one resident in Chuong My District describes his life since a flood virtually submerged an entire region 30km away from Hanoi.

 More than 20 years ago, artisan Nguyen Dang Che convinced his family members to stop making votive paper and resume their old livelihood making Dong Ho folk paintings. 

 Vietnam has moved up one place to rank 88th among the 193 countries in the United Nations E-Government Survey 2018.

 Huge cooperation potential for Hanoi, Canadian cities, AMM 51: ASEAN to strengthen intra-bloc economic strength, Vietnam, Thailand discuss ways to achieve $20 billion in trade, Party resolution brings remarkable changes in agriculture, rural areas

 VietNamNet Bridge – Just a few days after a national workshop to judge the country’s progress towards protecting cultural heritage, anger is brewing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Senior Leutenant General and Deputy Minister of Defence Nguyen Chi Vinh talks to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in New Delhi about the recent India-Vietnam defence dialogue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Van Thang, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, speaks about the latest flood control work along the Bui River in Hanoi’s outlying district of Chuong My.

Scenes in the latest music video by singer Pham Phuong Thao revive a traditional ceremony that dates back 600 years to welcome young men home who had successfully qualified to enter the royal court.

VietNamNet Bridge - Besides big freight and forwarding companies, numerous startups with technology apps have joined the fast delivery market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dong Nai People’s Committee has fined the subsidiary of a Malaysian company VND9.7 billion (US$415,232) for illegally burying waste.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An official in Son La Province’s high school exam cheating scandal has admitted to destroying CD copies of answer sheets, in a cemetery.

Free trade agreements, particularly the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, are the driving force to attract big investments in Vietnam’s garment-textile industry.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguen Thanh Phong, chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, today called on the Ministry of Defence to soon hand over land for construction of the Thu Thiem 2 Bridge.

 High-quality vaccines are available to people on low income with a zero percent interest rate on instalment payments.

HCM City’s Department of Transport has proposed that the city People’s Committee increase subsidies for bus cooperatives by VND330 billion (US$14 million) each year as they are facing a shortage of funds.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Only 5.7 per cent of Vietnam’s older people maintain good health—a worrisome sign as the country’s population is aging faster than almost any other country in the world, 

 It's your classic movie eureka moment. Young researcher Sarah-Jeanne Royer set out to measure methane gas coming from biological activity in sea water.

The investigation unit of public security ministry has begun investigating a massive cryptocurrency fraud scheme perpetrated by HCM City-based companies who lured in investors with promises of high returns.

Violinist Lidya Dobrevska and oboist Gordana Josifova Nedelkovska from Macedonia will perform in a concert featuring famous compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach at the HCM City Opera House next week.