The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) is collecting opinions about the new draft electricity prices. For daily household use, there would be five instead of six electricity price levels.

With the fast development of digital commerce in the past few years, an adjusted decree from the Ministry of Finance and a new e-commerce tax portal are expected to facilitate better tax management for e-commerce platforms.

Nowhere in the world does the sidewalk offer such bustling social spaces as in Hanoi that contribute in part to Hanoi's culture.

Hien Vy, a 36-year-old, is well known in local backpacking groups after recently finishing a 700km tour with her 68-year-old mother.

Thu Sy village in the Red River Delta province of Hung Yen is famous for its traditional trade of fish pot weaving.

Alex Ward and Geneva Marcelino are running cafes that work with local animal rescue shelters to help stray dogs and cats find their new homes.

Since electronic circuits are being applied in many fields from hi-tech agriculture, smart city infrastructure, to national defense, it is predicted that by 2024, the semiconductor industry in Vietnam will have exceeded the value of US$6.16 billion.

Hanoi is planning to develop satellite urban areas as part of an effort to widen local space and ease pressure from overcrowding in the inner city.

Film director Tran Van Thuy won the Grand Prize of the 15th Bui Xuan Phai – For Love of Hanoi Awards during a ceremony held at the headquarters of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) in Hanoi on October 6.

Eleven Vietnamese workers will participate in the WorldSkills Competition 2022 Special Edition which is being held in Europe and East Asia from September 30 to November 28, according to the Directorate of Vocational Education and Training.

Vietnam closely follows the developments surrounding the Ukraine-Russia conflict, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang said during a regular press briefing in Hanoi on October 6.

HCM City to be next destination of Italian Film Festival 2022

The 2023 ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Club Championship will start on September 27 2023, and end on May 15, 2024, the AFF Competition Committee announced at an online meeting on Monday.

HCMC recorded some 25 deaths due to dengue by October 2, the highest in a decade, according to the HCMC Center for Disease Control.

E-retailing to grow 20% this year

Hospitality providers in Hanoi’s Old Quarter have been gradually recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March 15, most of them have so far been brought back to life.

After local media reported about vegetables with counterfeited VietGAP certificates, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) asked for a review of 12 certification units and threatened to strictly punish any violators.

Vietnam is expected to maintain its seventh place in the number of new app downloads globally.

Kayaking in the waters of picturesque Cat Ba island and taking a food tour to sample delicacies around Ho Chi Minh City are among the 10 best things to do in Vietnam, according to UK-based travel website Time Out.

When the trend of consuming organic products is increasingly popular, the development of organic material sources has become an urgent requirement. Protecting these sources has become a great concern of producers in many countries around the world.

Vietnam needs policies to enable the electronics industry to ready its supply chain as the country becomes ever more attractive for investment, Deputy Director of the Industry Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade Pham Tuan Anh said.

After the State Bank of Vietnam implemented the new operational interest rate on September 23, all joint-stock commercial banks, with the exception of state-owned ones, have adjusted the deposit interest rate for most terms.

Ho Chi Minh City has great potential to attract international cruise tourists as part of an effort to speed up tourism recovery post-pandemic, experts said.

Vietnam’s industrial parks are in the process of transitioning to more ecological models, but are struggling due to a lack of regulations on reusing treated waste and wastewater.

The Vietnamese manufacturing sector rose solidly inside growth territory at the end of the third quarter of the year.