Hanoi’s recently-released list of housing ventures for foreign homebuyers may draw in less interest than expected as reputable developers are not involved, and complex legal barriers tower on the horizon.

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will provide Tam Ky city in Quang Nam province with non-refundable aid of US$9 million to help the city with its smart city building project.

A festival featuring food from all over the world will be held in Hanoi on December 8.

Dang Le Nguyen Vu, 48, founding chairman and general director of Trung Nguyen Group, continues to lead his coffee empire as he formally ends his marriage to 46-year-old Le Hoang Diep Thao.

After spring dating, when cold wind begins to blow, young ethnic boys and girls in the northwest mountain region decide to get married.

Music lovers in Danang will have the opportunity to enjoy a special performance by renowned Japanese guitarist Kozo Tate at the Danang Guitar Concert 2019 alongside a number of Vietnamese artists on December 13.

The glasses can recognize Vietnamese language and read content aloud for users with a high accuracy rate of up to 89 percent.

Cau Giay Police wrapped up the investigation on December 6 into the death of a grade-one student found dead after being forgotten in a student shuttle bus at Gateway International School in Hanoi City for nine hours. 

Uniqlo, a global apparel retailer from Japan, opened its first store in Vietnam on Dong Khoi, a high-end shopping street in HCMC’s District 1 on December 6, with hundreds of fashion lovers turning out to mark the launch of the store.

The implementation of eight groups of essential public services through the National Public Service Portal is estimated to save VND4,222 billion (US$181.63 million) each year.

Vietnam’s traditional craft villages turn out unique products which promotes the image of Vietnam and its people to the world.

A Japanese 75-year-old tourist on a Panama-flagged cruise ship has been saved from stroke off the coast of the southern central province of Khanh Hoa’s Nha Trang City.

Russia is one of the most reliable partners of Vietnam and the coming visit (December 8-11) by National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan is another illustration of the special and multi-faceted relations.

As 12-year-old Nguyen Viet Lam is taken to the operating theatre at Hanoi’s Military Central Hospital 108 he grips a nurse’s hand tightly, not looking back.

Việt Nam News talks to representatives of organisations and countries about start-up and innovation collaboration with Vietnam.

The two countries will stress a focus on security policy for the action plan in the next two years.

Vietnamese and Taiwanese drug investigators have uncovered a massive transnational drug trafficking ring and have seized 446 packs of heroin worth more than US$6 million from a warehouse in HCMC.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the UN shared Vietnam’s experience in promoting collaboration with partners to support the deployment of level-2 field hospitals in South Sudan.

Vietnam secured an additional eight gold, seven silver and ten bronze medals on December 7 – the seventh competition day of the 30th Southeast Asian Gamesin the Philippines, retaining its third place on the medal tally.

Vietnamese Deputy Finance Minister Vu Thi Mai and US Deputy Chief of Mission in Vietnam Caryn McClelland signed the Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement between the two Governments in Hanoi on December 6.