Digital economy to constitute one-third of Vietnam's GDP in 2030

Nguyen Minh Luong, a 71-year-old man living in Long Xuyen City in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, is often away from home all day to help the poor.

Nguyen Trung Khanh, director general of the Vietnam Tourism Administration, talks to Vietnam Economic Times newspaper about his agency’s efforts to improve the tourism sector’s competitive advantages.

Nguyen Doan Tu, general director of the General Department for Population and Family Planning, spokeabout changes to the number of children per family   and the necessity of adjusting population policies in the country.

Hanoi's Department of Transport has released plans to regulate traffic in Nam Tu Liem District’s Le Duc Tho and Le Quang Dao streets to facilitate the construction of a Formula One (F1) racetrack.

Crimes related to drug dealing and trafficking had been on the rise in HCM City in recent years, said Đinh Thanh Nhàn, deputy head of HCMC Police.

The People’s Committee of Hanoi has assigned Hoan Kiem District to expand the pedestrian zone to the south of the Old Quarter.

Drones are being used on a trial basis to spray crop protection chemicals in the Mekong Delta provinces of Dong Thap and Long An under the region’s high-tech agricultural programmes.

An agreement to allow Vietnamese workers to work in Japan for five years was signed on Friday in Hanoi.

The detoxification work at Rang Dong Light Source & Vacuum Flask JSC in Hanoi is slated to be completed within the next five days.

Hoang A Chinh, director of Ha Giang Province Department of Construction said on October 4 that they would investigate the illegal project on Ma Pi Leng Mountain Pass.

The Drug Administration of Việt Nam, under the Ministry of Health, has decided to withdraw 11 drugs containing N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) beyond permitted levels that potentially cause cancer.

High tides, dykes and land subsidence are causing serious flooding in urban areas in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region, according to Nguyen Huu Thien, an expert on the Delta's ecosystem.

Despite Government limitations on raw mineral exports, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) says help is on hand for local enterprises.

A woman in the central province of Quang Binh has been fined by police for spreading ‘fake news’ on her Facebook page.

The National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs continued its meeting on Thursday on the implementation of autonomy at public hospitals.

Steel company plans to switch bourse

Vietnam has recently found cases of foreign enterprises falsely labelling their products as originating in Vietnam to illegally benefit from the free trade agreements (FTAs) the country is a member of and avoid trade defence mechanisms.

Among the sounds of hammers and steel-cutting machines, 50-year-old Nguyen Ngoc Hong, a worker of Pha Rung Shipyard Company in Hai Phong City, puts a vessel through final tests after construction has been completed.

The employee turnover rate has been on the rise in the last three years, reaching an alarming rate of 24 per cent this year, according to a report from the human resource consultancy Anphabe.