Tran Tuan Minh of Vietnam won the 14th IGB Dato Arthur Tan International Open Chess Championship 2017, which closed on Monday in Malaysia.

 Vietnamese architect Hoang Thuc Hao will be awarded the Vassilis Sgoutas Prize by the International Union of Architects (UIA) at a ceremony held in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday.

 The People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long on Monday declared state of natural disasters level 1 (the lowest level) due to land erosion.

 The PAN Food empire marches on: the company just announced its successful acquisition of Bibica Corporation with 50.07 per cent of total share ownership.

 It’s expected to be a strong September on the local stock market, as investors are maintaining confidence after positive economic data in August and a period of prolonged net buying by foreign traders.

 Savills: Da Nang real estate in good shape in 1H, CGV opens 50th cinema in Vietnam, Import taxes on auto parts may be cut, Tourists to Ca Mau increase by 11 percent in eight months

 The government plans to sell 53.59 per cent of its shares in the country’s largest brewery Sai Gon Beer, Alcohol and Beverage Corporation (Sabeco).

 Handling super small and skinny houses in Hanoi remains a headache for local officials.

 Hanoi’s People’s Committee recently issued regulations on basement areas for parking at new construction projects in the inner city, part of the effort to tackle the severe parking space shortage.

Techcombank has no foreign stakeholder following HSBC Bank plc’s divestment in July, and has requested shareholders to approve zero foreign ownership temporarily.

 Credit growth rate in the first eight months of 2017 has been estimated at 11.5 per cent compared to the end of 2016, the National Financial Supervisory Commission (NFSC) reported.

 These days, people have shown a tendency to search for property information online, according to a new report of real estate website batdongsan.com.

Lam Dong is leading the country in high-tech agriculture. It grows crops on nearly 50,000ha under hi-tech agricultural methods. This amounts to 18 per cent of the province’s land under production.

 Foreign online travel agencies have been dominating the online tourism market in Viet Nam.

 When you visit the main congress center in Slovenia’s capital you may get more that the usual conference: how about a jar of honey?

 The Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) will assess and honour the top 30 listed companies for best corporate governance in November during its annual convention for listed businesses.

 Quang Binh Province Border Guard collaborated with Laos’ Khammouan Province Public Security Department to investigate five Laos nationals involved in trafficking 12,000 drug pills into Vietnam on Monday.

The Cham island’s Marine Protected Area (MPA) management board started conservation of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) by hatching 450 eggs taken from Con Dao Island on August 30.

 A total of 300,000 ocean fingerlings were released into an area of Tam Giang Lagoon in central Thua Thien- Hue Province, aiming to produce a swift recovery for local seafood resources after the Formosa toxic spill in 2016.

 The Hanoi Relay Race will begin on November 19 at the island in Ecopark urban area, about 10km southeast of Hanoi.

 Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh is competing at the Vietnam Open  badminton tournament at Nguyen Du Gymnasium on September 4-10 in HCM City.

Coach Hoang Anh Tuan has said that Vietnam are set to win the AFF U-18 Championship, which kicked off in Myanmar yesterday.

 Vietnam’s national men’s football team need to forget their Southeast Asian (SEA) Games’ failure and focus on the AFC Asian Cup 2019’s qualifying round, coach Mai Duc Chung said.

 Four scooters riding around a cage is one of the thrilling acts audiences will witness during a unique international circus programme in Hanoi.

 Eggs contaminated with the insecticide fipronil have been discovered in 40 countries, including 24 of the European Union’s 28 member states, German news agency DPA reported on Tuesday,