The National Assembly passed the law amending and supplementing some articles of the Law on Government Organisation and the Law on Local Administration Organisation on November 22 with 89.23 percent approval.

Dao ethnic minority man Trieu Tai Cao has devoted his life to nurturing more than 30ha of precious ironwood trees by arterial road 279 which connects northern mountainous provinces.

Trade fraud and large-scale smuggling in the last two years have led to closure of than one-third of sugar mills in Vietnam, and many sugarcane fields have been left uncultivated.

The draft amendments to the Law on Investment and the Law on Enterprises feature notable changes and are expected to bring forward a more favourable investment climate when it is scheduled to take effect in 2021. 

Vietnam’s import and export value has exceeded $400 billion and is moving towards the $500 billion threshold. 

Instead of mostly making products for export, many food companies are now focusing on the domestic market through locally made products that are competitive with imports.

When his parents gave him a book that taught him how to fold paper into dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures at the age of seven, Nguyen Hung Cuong found his passion – origami.

The last thing you may expect to find at the foot of Lang Biang Mountain in Lac Duong District, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong is a pizza restaurant.

The unique music of bamboo flutes played with the nose of Kho Mu ethnic minority people will be played during an event at the Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi on November 23-24.

Rice quality key to exports

In the context of rapid changes in business methods, the current Law on Investment needs changes in favour of investors. 

Professor Le Hoai Quoc, president of the Ho Chi Minh Automation Association, talks about the fast development of automation in Vietnam.

A social worker from HCM City’s Social Support Centre has been accused of sexually abusing children.

Banks’ nine-month financial reports show that bad debts have increased compared with the beginning of the year, though the bad debt ratio has fallen.

An array of beauties from Japan, Thailand, and India are considered to be among the strong Asian rivals facing Vietnamese representative Luong Thuy Linh in the Miss World 2019 pageant as it gets underway in London, the UK.

The band won't go on a world tour until they can make their concerts "environmentally beneficial".

Laser scanning technology, Lidar, is getting cheaper and could be how machines see in the future.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta are growing more new flower varieties for the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, which falls on January 25.

The US company's new rocket prototype experiences a major failure during pressurisation testing.

The Nguyen Hue Flower Street 2020, the annual biggest and most anticipated event welcoming the lunar New Year in Ho Chi Minh City is expected to open from January 22-28.