Foreign retail groups undoubtedly are a powerful influence in the domestic market. However, Vietnamese retailers are vowing to ‘play big’ to gain the upper hand in the home market.

The My Son Sanctuary management board has received five collections of ancient Cham script books – related to old rituals or worship ceremonies of the Cham people in central Vietnam – from a local collector.

The thrilling 2-1 victory over Indonesia by the men’s U22 football team and a gold medal in the women’s over 60kg arnis category concluded a successful day on December 1 for Vietnam at the 30th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 30).

Equality and non-discrimination is one of the basic principles of Vietnamese law as well as in international conventions to which Vietnam is a party.

The Ministry of Transport has approved a plan to build an airport in Sa Pa in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai. Construction is scheduled to start this year and will be completed in 2021.

The Vietnamese economy is likely to grow at an annual average pace of 7% during the 2021-2015 period, according to a projection by the National Centre for Socio-economic Information and Forecast.

A number of travel operators have begun to launch tours to the Philippines, offering local football fans the chance to support the Vietnamese national men’s team in their fixtures at the ongoing SEA Games 30.

2019 is the year that the Government assesses the key achievements that Vietnam has achieved in the five years of implementing the sustainable development goals and setting tasks for the next period.

The Pacific Alliance Film Festival will be held for the first time in the central coastal city of Da Nang on December 6-8.

Missosology, the world’s leading magazine on beauty pageants, has listed Luong Thuy Linh, Vietnam’s representative at Miss World 2019, among its Top 6 First Hot Picks for the ongoing contest in the UK.

The central province of Quang Binh is seeking ways to protect a rare highly threatened kind of langur.

Rapid technological development has given people more ways to access and share information on the Internet. It has also created conditions for more sophisticated cyber attacks.

Hanoi has set the target of reducing hard-decomposed plastic bags by 50% at all local traditional markets by the end of 2020, but little has been done to make this a reality.

Car dealers at many firms in Vietnam are complaining about slow sales as it approaches the end of 2019.

In modern society, the traditional culture and particularly the ancient language of the Thai people has been increasingly neglected. 

Nguyen Hoang Duc scored a stoppage-time goal as Vietnam U22s came from behind to beat their Indonesian opponents 2-1 in their third Group B clash at the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines on December 1.

Geotec Hanoi 2019 concluded in Hanoi on November 29, helping to narrow the geotechnical engineering gap between Vietnam and developed countries.

Ngoc Chau, Vietnam’s representative at Miss Supranational 2019, has been named among the winners of the first round of the pageant’s SupraChat segment at the ongoing competition in Poland.

The third Vietnam Coffee Day event is set to transpire in Pleiku City in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai between December 8 -10, with the participation of hundreds of international organisations and businesses.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided to remove the ABC foreign language testing system used at local language training centres from January 15.