Hosts of the 30th Southeast Asian Games, the Philippines, have shocked participating teams by announcing all football matches in the tournament will be played on artificial turf.

Vietnamese and Singaporean scientists yesterday ended a two-day seminar in Hanoi where they exchanged experience in museum activities.

Vietnam will host the first Viet Nam International Music Competition for Violin and Chamber Music 2019 from August 3 to 11.

HCM City and its history and development are featured in a photo exhibition at the HCM City Photographers Association.

Beginning this month, Vinmec Central Park International Hospital in HCM City has applied a comprehensive cardiovascular treatment model, which enables early diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment.

A man has died in the Mekong Delta after being struck by lightning. 

The central province of Nghe An will spend VND19 billion (US$818,000) on elephant conservation by 2025, a conference heard on Monday.

Hoi An has opened its first complex producing non-chemical essential oils, coffee and herb tea from local materials after three years construction at Thanh Ha Industrial Park in the city.

Twelve artists are showing their contemporary artworks at a new exhibition at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

The HCM City Department of Transport has proposed investing VND250 billion for 34 automatic toll booths to prevent traffic congestion during peak hours in the city centre.

Fashion designer Minh Chau will introduce his latest ao dai (Vietnamese traditional dress) collections at Diamond Place next week.

Environmentally-friendly buses in HCM City could face operating problems as compressed natural gas (CNG) suppliers plan to reduce CNG supply, according to local authorities.

Vietnam is completing the construction of 65 Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS), using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to provide highly accurate geo-spatial positioning data.

Investment from private equities is heading for the educational sector in Vietnam.

Experts have high hopes for inflation scenarios

Credit was the major source of income of banks. In 2018, when credit grew by 14 percent compared with the years before, the profit of banks increased by 40 percent, according to the National Finance Supervision Council.

The Government will submit the controversial North-South high-speed railway project to the National Assembly (NA) in May next year.

The battle against single-use plastic products has not yet delivered any satisfactory results. Solutions are plenty, but what is lacking is their enforcement.

Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, talks to Kinh tế và Đô thị (Economic & Urban Affairs) newspaper about measures to prevent a food shortage at the end of this year.

It isn`t the first time China ignored protests and warnings from Vietnam and the outside world.