More than 90 percent of lawmakers voted on November 10 to adopt the Resolution on State budget estimates for 2012 which targets a total spending of more than VND903 trillion (US$43.3 billion).

Apartments sales in Ha Noi are unlikely to pick up in the last months of this year, despite falling prices, due to lack of demand.

Hanoi Telecom Corp. has sent a letter to the Competition Department, Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade saying that if mobile network Viettel is allowed to take over cash-trapped EVN Telecom, it would breach the country’s Competition Law.

The owners of office building are hunting for tenants these days, offering discounts and a lot of preferences. However, there are very few clients nowadays since businesses have to cut down expenses and save money.

Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN) is seeking loans from international finance organisations and domestic commercial banks to fund power transmission projects.

The Inspectorate of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in collaboration with the Hi-tech Crime Police Bureau (Ministry of Public Security), raided scores of firms in cities across the country last month.

Rock fans in Hanoi will have the chance to see the Cambodian-American psychedelic rock band Dengue Fever perform for one night only on November 26.

It seems that the regulation on prohibiting general school students to drive motorbikes to school has never been valid.

This is one of the three key tasks in the process of restructuring the national economy.

Oleander, a toxic tree which grows alongside the pavement or in the medians of many big cities, is raising public concern over its harmful effects on pedestrian health.

The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) is planning to begin its fourth round of bank stress tests in the coming weeks, a senior Fed member said on Friday.

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G’Rai equip the tombs of their loved ones with personal assets so those who have departed can live just as comfortably as the living.

A senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official on Friday urged eurozone policymakers to provide a clear picture of how to tackle the eurozone debt turmoil although global collaboration is needed.

Advanced economies may fall back into recession if policymakers fail to rebuild market confidence and boost growth, warned the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday.

Vietnamese cable television firm VTC said it is still pursuing a plan to buy a stake in EVN Telecom, an arm of the state utility Electricity of Vietnam.

Vietnam’s U23 football team trounced Brunei 8-0 on November 12, gaining entrance to the semi-finals of the ongoing 26th SEA Games in Indonesia.

10 mil school children in Vietnam receive dental care; Civil aviation, police hold anti-terrorist drill at Can Tho Airport; PM concern for Mekong crops; $106m fund raised for the poor; Capital gets centre for organ transplants  

Talented Vietnamese painters step together; HD cafés, a new kind of movie theatres; French jazz singer comes to Hanoi; “Flavours of Vietnam” food festival opens in Sydney; Artists display works in HCM City

Former England captain David Beckham has been named to the MLS's all-star team, league commissioner Don Garber announced on Thursday.