Many big foreign investors are stepping up the sale of shares of leading enterprises in their business fields, raising concern about the departure of foreign capital.

Boasting great potential to be recognised as a national tourism area, Ly Son island, Quang Ngai province, is hoped to become a national tourism destination in the near future.

HCM City and the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant hold great potential to cooperate in the fields of education, culture, and arts, said Permanent Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem.

HCM City always attaches great importance to enhancing friendship and cooperation with Korean localities, including Gyeonggi province’s Ansan city, said Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Council Pham Duc Hai.

Individuals and businesses alike should be the subject of international integration, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at a teleconference on April 23.

The ASEAN Trade in Services Agreement (ATISA) and the fourth protocol amending the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement (ACIA) were inked by ASEAN economic ministers in Thailand on April 23.

Vietnam Airlines will have an additional 78,000 seats on international and domestic routes during the Reunification Day and Labour Day holidays.

The HCM City Department of Health has asked hospitals to not charge patients’ families for basic services.

Surgeons at HCM City’s City International Hospital successfully performed a 15-hour cerebrovascular surgery on a 57-year-old woman recently to remove a grade-IV brain tumor.

Vietnamese people consume alcoholic beverages in excess but the country lacks specific regulations for prevention of its harmful effects, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son has said.

Some economists warn that the higher investment capital for national important projects may make it more difficult to manage public projects and lend a hand to unnecessary use of state funds.

The Embassy and Consulate General of Australia in Vietnam announced their plans to host the fourth edition of the Taste of Australia programme at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on April 23.

The habit of consuming much alcohol leaves severe consequences to be fixed, with the treatment of six common types of alcohol-related cancer in Vietnam already costing around US$1.118 billion, or 0.25% of the country’s GDP in 2017.

The Ministry of Finance has proposed increasing fees for wastewater discharged by carwashes, hotels and restaurants.

Enterprises are not interested in collaboration with vocational training facilities to train students or update their internal training programmes because the laws are not clear about their role and responsibilities.

HCM City has great potential for restoring thousands of villas, houses and buildings, many of them over 100 years old, according to the Architectural Research Centre at the city's Department of Planning and Architecture.

After three years of renovations, Vietnamese and Indian experts have completed the upgrade of Towers K and H – rare buildings that have remained as part of the complex of temples at My Son Sanctuary in the central province of Quang Nam.

The central province of Quang Ngai has organised a festival in Mo Duc district to honour the wet rice.

Border guards in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested a man suspected of illegally transporting guns and ammunition from another country to Vietnam through the city port.

The Vietnam Record Association and the Vietnam Records Organisation (VietKings) granted a record certificate to the Advanced International JSC (AIC) in recognition of the company’s Japanese cherry blossom festival in Hanoi on April 23.