Vietnamese teenagers were at risk of social exclusion in later life because of the threat of video game addiction, a doctor has warned.

Amid a sudden increase in foreign direct investment inflows from China, experts are calling for the creation of “filter tools” for FDI with the aim of fostering high value manufacturing and sustainable development.

Household businesses in Vietnam may be exempted from paying fees for enterprise registration and first-time provision of information needed to become an enterprise.

As many as 85 percent of industrial enterprises in Vietnam still lag behind the fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), and only 13 per cent are at the beginner level, one official has warned.

The Commission for the Management of State Capital at Enterprises (CMSC) this year will oversee the finance of 19 State-owned groups and corporations.

The news that Google has canceled cooperation with Huawei has raised concern that Huawei phones cannot be updated with Android software.

Vietnam is poised to become a leading electronics powerhouse in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, in the coming years if it sustains its current pace of growth, according to a report from Singapore’s DBS Bank.

Although the number of women in politics continues to rise, the ratio of women in high positions remains low.

The Ministry of Health has issued a warning to not sell or use nitrous oxide N20, a colourless and sweet tasting gas, for recreational purposes.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs have teamed up with Bloomberg Philanthropies to carry out a project that focuses on preventing drowning among 8,200 children in Vietnam's eight provinces and cities.

Vietnam always treasures and maintains values of peace and stability, said Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh while addressing the 25th International Conference on the Future of Asia in Tokyo today.

The HCM City’s People Committee will rearrange district and commune administrative units from now to 2021.

A contemporary music concert introducing new works by international and Vietnamese composers will take place at Manzi Art Space on Sunday.

Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono held talks and co-chaired the 11th meeting of the Vietnam-Japan Cooperation Committee on May 30 in Tokyo.

A ceremony was held in Maputo (Mozambique) on May 29 by Buddhist monks, nuns, and followers from the Vietnamese community in the country to mark Buddha’s 2563rd birthday.

Adam Liaw, the winner of the 2010 version of Masterchef Australia, will be in Hanoi on June 1-3 to introduce Australian gastronomy as part of the “Taste of Australia 2019” and “ASEAN now” programmes.

The site handover for the VND10 trillion (US$430 million) antiflood project in HCMC, developed by Trung Nam Group, may miss the revised June 30 deadline.

The proposal to raise the retirement age is necessary as Vietnam’s retirement age regulations have been outdated after 60 years, and the average life expectancy of the Vietnamese is higher than that of people from many Asia-Pacific countries.

Police in the central highlands province of Lam Dong have arrested three men in the biggest forest destruction case recorded so far in the area.

The highest added value lies in R&D, and if Vietnam continues to rely on outsourcing, its productivity will not improve significantly.