As fashion stores across Hanoi prepare for the upcoming Black Friday sales, there is growing concern among sellers that consumers seem to lack enthusiasm for the promotional schemes on offer.

The Vietnamese embassy alongside a number of other Asian countries recently participated in the second Oriental Festival as it got underway in Mexico.

An art fair offering works at affordable prices is being held at the new Manzi Exhibition Space in Hanoi until December 3.

To Manh Cuong, 52, has been appointed general director of MobiFone Telecommunications Corporation, filling a position that has remained vacant for more than one year.

Vietnam Railways (VNR) plans to upgrade the country’s rail infrastructure by building 300 new and high-quality train carriages and purchasing more locomotives by 2023.

High flood tides have submerged many streets in HCM City. 

Experienced leader and academic, Professor Peter Coloe, has been appointed RMIT Vietnam Chairman.

The National Assembly has officially voiced support for the revenue risk sharing mechanism in the long-awaited draft Law on Public-Private Partnerships, but worries persist over feasible conditions, state budget affordability, and project scale.

The air quality in Hanoi is becoming worse than usual. In suburban districts, people are burning straw and scraps of fabric though they have been warned of the risks.

Many residents in high-rise apartment buildings in Hanoi continued facing light shakes early this morning, November 28.

The Vietnamese Culture Week took place at Ural Federal University in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg from November 19-26 as part of the Vietnam-Russia Year 2019.

‘Song Lang’ (The Tap Box) was honoured with the Golden Lotus Award in the motion picture category at the 21st National Film Festival, which wrapped up in Vung Tau City on November 27.

Vietnamese Minister of Science and Technology Chu Ngoc Anh and Minister of Science and ICT of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Choi Kiyoung on November 27 signed an agreement to co-finance research projects from 2019 – 2020.

The People’s Court of the northern province of Lang Son handed out 11 death penalties and one life sentence to members of a heroin trafficking ring on November 27.

Quang Ninh Province has invested more than VND38 trillion (US$1.6 billion) in service infrastructure so far this year to promote socio-economic development.

Bidding for electricity projects instead of using the feed-in tariff price mechanism would make Vietnam's electricity more transparent and offer cheaper consumer power prices, experts said at a conference in Hanoi on Wednesday.

Furniture companies and industries in Southeast Asia should pool their strengths and enhance co-operation to achieve prosperity and sustainability, a forum heard in HCM City on Wednesday.

Vietnamese-French violinist Pham Vinh will perform works by Russian composer Tchaikovsky at the HCM City Opera House on Saturday.

Youthfulness, activeness and a desire to win are traits people can easily recognise in pencak silat martial artist Tran Kim Them.

Coming up with an idea of turning a scrap bus in into an environmentally-friendly café, Nguyen Duc Sam spent years to recycle abandoned items into a unique café that attracts a lot of interest from customers.