While state-owned banks are dominating the domestic credit and debit card categories, privately-held banks in Vietnam are expanding their international payment footprint.

Children throughout the country are going through a lonely time due to having to study online and not being able to hang out with friends.

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused losses of some VND273 trillion for HCMC since 2020, said chairwoman of the municipal People’s Council Nguyen Thi Le. 

Covid-19 child patients in HCM City on the rise

Vietnam's shrimp exports to reach nearly $4bil. this year

The Vietnam Digital Content Copyright Center under the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information of the Ministry of Information and Communications was officially introduced on December 9.

The US sent a further 4.4 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam on Friday via the global vaccine sharing initiative COVAX, according to the US mission in the country.

The Hanoi People’s Procuracy on December 11 proposed sentencing former Hanoi chairman Nguyen Duc Chung to 10-12 years behind bars.

The gradual maturity of Vietnam’s startup ecosystem is expected to boost fundraising and dealmaking activities.

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has given the greenlight to restore regular international commercial flights to a number of countries in Asia and the United States starting on January 1, 2022.

PM Pham Minh Chinh has underlined the necessity of providing two injections for people over 18 years old, as well as a third jab for those who need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 no later than December 31.

E-commerce platforms may choose not to declare and pay tax on behalf of sellers.

Vietnam and Australia have been nominated as co-chairs of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development-run Southeast Asia Regional Programme for 2022-2025.

The appearance of the new Omicron variant has put pressure on routine international flight reopening. However, Vietnam should not wait any longer, many experts say.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has signed an agreement with EMERGENT on the transfer of emission reductions.

Tran Le Huu Nghia - a Vietnamese origin doctor - is the third Vietnamese to receive the A. Noam Chomsky Global Connection Award.

A number of experts are against Hanoi’s plan to prohibit motorbikes beginning in 2025, warning that proper conditions will not be ready to implement the plan.

Although the Covid-19 epidemic has negatively affected the global economy, the amount of remittances remitted to Vietnam in 2021 is still high. 

Google has announced the Top 10 trending searches in Vietnam 2021 which show the great impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The introduction of the Mobile Money service in Vietnam raises a question of its possible attractiveness, as people can easily use the Internet for their financial activities.