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Summer camp, army semester activities boom as summer holiday begins

Students are expected to have a busy summer holiday as they have many things to do, including attending summer camps in Vietnam and other countries, taking life skill classes, and attending ‘army semesters’.

Man returns home to develop family vinegar recipe

Vu Minh Ngoc established the Bach Coc Youth Cooperative, which can produce up to 2,000 litres of vinegar per month. It is expected to be a foundation for a vinegar-making village where locals can benefit from the traditional craft.

Big M&A deals of retail giants in Vietnam

The market has witnessed many big M&A deals of retail giants with value of up to billions of US dollars.

Three ‘women generals’ who earn trillions of dong for their businesses

Taking leading positions at businesses, the businesswomen have been driving their companies to success, with revenue increasing by trillions of dong each year.

Hanoi lacks night activities to entertain foreign travelers

Many tourists complain that they feel bored as Hanoi doesn’t have many attractive activities to enjoy at night. Travel firms admit they find it difficult to schedule night activities for foreign travelers.

SBV cuts operating interest rates, but small banks maintain high interest rates

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has cut some operating interest rates, but has not intervened in ceiling interest rates of 6-month or longer-term deposits, so there are interest rate gaps among commercial banks.

UK literary mag finds ’measureless melodies’ in Vietnamese poetry

A collection of Vietnamese poetry translated into English to honour the beauty of the Vietnamese language has been published including translations spanning centuries of Vietnamese poems.

Summer heat peaks, beverage manufacturers pocket profits

Contrary to predictions, Vietnamese beverage manufacturers have not been ousted by foreign giants from the home market, but have been performing well and competing equally with them.

How do brewers fare in the Vietnamese market?

Drinking cold beer on summer afternoons is a habit of many Hanoians. The Australian Prime Minister, when visiting the capital city recently, joined a group of draft beer drinkers and shouted "one, two, three, cheers!" before tasting the popular beer.

More M&A deals reported, big concerns about losing home market

Many VietNamNet readers have emailed us, expressing their concern about the increasingly high number of recent merger and acquisition (M&A) deals either being made or still under negotiation.

Workers want lower retirement age, higher pensions

Because of the short length of service and age of retirement, many employees are choosing a lump-sum social insurance withdrawal, and are then beginning to look for a new job where they will pay social insurance premiums for a second round.

Once-famous businessman returns to hospital board

Tram Be, a once-famous tycoon with a takeover deal of Sacombank, has returned to the business world by joining the board of directors at Trieu An Hospital.

Goods prices escalate, personal income-tax burdens workers

Experts have called on to immediately amend the personal income tax (PIT) law which is no longer suited to new circumstances with goods prices increasing sharply.

Checkered history: Vietnam's traditional scarf weaving

The traditional craft of check scarf weaving was recognised as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The blossoming of a once barren land

When visiting the lush Golden Camellia Park in Nho Quan District in Ninh Bình, it is hard to imagine that a few years ago the valley was abandoned with few crops surviving, the local soil deemed too rough to do anything worthwhile.

Vietnam confident about digital economy development

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung says that the portion of the digital economy to GDP by the end of 2023 may reach over 17 percent, and with good solutions to stimulate the economy, the figure may reach 25 percent by 2025.

Hanoi's 'catwoman’ houses abandoned felines

Nguyen Thuy Hai, nickednamed ’Catwoman’, has found happiness in her life alongside the cats she cares for as if they were her own children.

Nature’s bounty: ginseng farm aims to go global

A ginseng farm in Quảng Nam Province is aiming for the herb to go global while bringing jobs to the local ethnic communities.

VN film industry seeks launching pad

Experts discuss preferential policies and favourable treatment to be offered in attracting film crews and promoting Vietnam as a movie destination

Vietnam’s big tech firms remain indifferent to ChatGPT

It may be a surprise that big tech firms which have a lot of data to develop artificial intelligence (AI), such as FPT, Viettel and VNG, have not launched any new AI chatbot products, which is in contrast to Facebook and Google.