HCMC People’s Committee has required the Department of Planning and Architecture to work with the committee’s Office to publicize a software providing information on city planning in smartphones.

 The Vietnam – Republic of Korea (RoK) Film Festival officially opened in Ho Chi Minh City on November 17, as part of the activities under the 2017 Ho Chi Minh City – Gyeongju World Cultural Festival.

 Associate Professor Nguyen Ngoc Dien, Vice Rector of the University of Economics and Law under the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, has become an official member of the French Academy of Overseas Sciences.

 Deputies raised a number of questions concerning the measures required to improve the quality of judicial work and the settlement of economic corruption cases, at the Q&A session on November 18.

On the verge of a merger with Mobile World Investment Corporation (MWG), Tran Anh Digital revealed a net loss of $519,672, exceeding the net loss stated in its self-reported financial statement by $211,392.

A selection of noteworthy artistic and cultural events will take place in in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on November 20 - 26.

 Miss Vietnam My Linh took part in the Head-to-Head challenge for the Miss World 2017 pageant in China on November 16.

 French band Mezcal Jazz Unit will be in concert at Tuoi Tre (Youth) Theatre on 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street, Hanoi on November 25 as part of the European Music Festival.

 Vietnam is considered a tremendously potential market by Korean fintech enterprises, setting off an avalanche of deals looking to expand business operations and find investment and co-operation opportunities.

 At present, 65% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) still find it difficult to seek potential foreign partners and investors due to the lack of co-ordination and a high-skilled labour force.

 Startups are a “promised land” for new graduates as they will present many employment opportunities in the near future, according to the latest report from the Navigos Group.

Vietnam ranks 34th among the 80 countries and territories surveyed on general English skills, signifying a slight drop of three grades compared to the 2016 index.

 Many people have used illegal services or sub-standard hormones because the cost for overseas sex reassignment surgery is too costly in Vietnam.

 Vietnamese representative Nguyen Thi Loan will wear a unique dress adorned with conical hats to compete in the national costume contest in the ongoing Miss Universe 2017 pageant in Las Vegas, USA.

 With a continuous year-on-year decline in sales this year, the domestic auto industry is unlikely to achieve the 10 per cent growth predicted by the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA).

 Le Van Chung could not hide his happiness when his seven-member team from Duy Tan University won first prize in the information technology (IT) category at the Vietnamese Talent Awards 2017 held on Thursday evening.

 The prolonged international focus on Da Nang as the host of this year’s APEC Summit has boosted the city’s brand value, and the local real estate sector will benefit accordingly, experts say.

 Several banks announced they would auction the shares they are holding in companies, in the last two months of the year, on the Ha Noi Stock Exchange (HNX).

 Nearly 70 per cent of a newly grown protective forest and a large area of Cửa Đại Beach have been washed away by large waves, intense rains and a higher sea level since last year.

 Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the People’s Committee of Tiền Giang Province to respond to local reports that a section of the Tiền River was filled in to build a nearly 10-ha fruit park in the province’s Cái Bè District.

 American historian Larry Berman, author of a book on Vietnamese legendary spy Phạm Xuân Ẩn, spoke about the famous spy with students from the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH) yesterday.

 Police on Thursday confirmed they have detained a couple in HCM City who allegedly used a child to beg for money to buy drugs.

 Nine officials from a public transport operation centre in HCM City were suspended for 15 days after a report published on Thanh Niên (Young people) newspaper on Wednesday claimed they were corrupt.

Residents of Ban Mu Commune in Yen Bai have often relied on the illegal felling of valuable timber from the pơ mu tree (Fujian Cypress) to make ends meet. 

 For six years, Quang has helped hundreds of students cross the road safely. His two daily shifts at Trung Sơn Tram Primary School are inspired by disturbing accidents he saw years ago.