Many shop owners in Hanoi are hiring topless male waiters or hairdressers as a PR stunt to attract customers.

 Authorities in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai will investigate a 13,000 square-metre villa owned by the family of the provincial Director of Natural Resources and Environment Pham Sy Quy.

 A contemporary art centre was inaugurated in Hanoi on June 6, becoming the city’s the largest-scale and most unique art centre.

 Hundreds of households in Gio My Commune, Quang Tri Province are facing the risks of deadly illnesses as their underground water is contaminated.

 Vietnam has qualified as successful universal education coverage for 5-year-old children according to Vice Minister of Education and Training, Nguyen Thi Nghia.

 Experts have warned about a slowdown in the luxury apartment sector in Ho Chi Minh City as rental prices are dropping because of excessive supply.

 The central province of Khanh Hoa is considering allowing a local private firm to preserve and operate its Hon Mun Nature Reserve, one of the most famous tourist destinations in the province.

 Nguyen Ngoc Giao, deputy head of the HCM City Department of Transport’s road traffic board has spuriously claimed that taxi phone apps have led to an increase in the number of vehicles in the city.

 The Dam Sen Water Park in HCM City has just sent apologies to their customers after their recent show featuring female dancers in bikinis caused public outcry.

 Vietnam has been named among the Top 6 most-attractive retail markets in the world this year by A.T. Kearney in its Global Retail Development Index (GRDI), following India, China, Malaysia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

 Airline passengers in HCM City can use helicopter service to get to Tan Son Nhat International Airport which is provided by the Southern Vietnam Helicopter Company (VNH South).

 Vietnam property company, FLC Group, which aims to start a new airline that could take to the skies for the first time early next year, is working with Airbus to lease about seven aircraft by 2018, the company's chairman said on Saturday.

 An Australian tourist died of myocardial infarction on June 10 while he and his family were on holiday in Quang Ninh Province’s Ha Long City.

Generations of ethnic groups in the Central Highlands have used gongs to convey their innermost sentiments and communicate with their deities.

Ly Hoang Nam and partner Yuichi Ito were placed second in the Singapore F3 Men’s Futures tennis tournament, which concluded on June 11.

 Vietnam’s real estate market attracted over 600 million USD in foreign direct investment in the first five months of this year, according to the General Statistics Office.

VietNamnet Bridge - Vietnamese choose foreign rice not because the latter is better, but because Vietnamese enterprises don’t know how to build their brands, experts say.

 Russia pays special attention to the development of comprehensive strategic partnership with Vietnam, its long-standing and reliable friend in the region, according to Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Konstantin V. Vnukov.

 Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi is estimated to post an increase of 7.37 percent in gross regional domestic products in the first half of 2017 and earn 5.8 billion USD from exports, up 12.1 percent against last year.

Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia has bagged the Arcasia Awards for Architecture 2017 of the Architects Regional Council Asia.

 Some commercial banks have entered a new interest rate hike race for long-term deposits with adjustments from 0.1-0.2 percent per year.

 As many as 96.5 percent of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) was equitised as of the end of March this year, but the privatized capital amount from these reached only 8 percent, according to a report of the General Secretary of the National Assembly. 

 The Republic of Korea topped the investor line-up in Vietnam with over 50 billion USD as of the end of 2016, according to statistics from the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) released on June 12.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh called for Australian and Vietnamese businesses to foster their trade and investment partnership, prioritizing cooperation, in human resources, infrastructure, wind power and renewable power from waste.

 Households near the steel companies in Da Nang coastal city’s Hoa Vang District will be relocated on account of the environmental pollution there.