“Buying a tiger is as easy as buying a refrigerator,” Vu Ngoc Thanh, lecturer at the University of Natural Sciences, a member school of the HCMC National University, said.

Financiers from South Korea are taking over Vietnam’s securities firms at a breakneck pace, as part of their quest to gain ­access to the fast-growing ­financial market in the ­country.

The national women's football team has been welcomed home as heroes after they won the ASEAN Football Championship for the third time in Thailand.

HCM City plans to spend hundreds of billions of dong on building more than 100 reservoirs to store rainwater and control flooding by 2020 under a flood-control programme.

Every Sunday morning, in a coffee shop in District 10, HCM City, nearly 40 doctors and technicians, nurses, and medical students gather together to share specialized knowledge of resuscitation.

Analysts believe that delivery services offering the shortest delivery time thanks to technology applications will win the market.

It is 12:30pm on Sunday afternoon in mid-August. Le Thi Kim Linh, 45, is waiting in line to get lunch at Cho Ray Hospital’s kitchen which serves free meals for patients’ families, many of whom live outside HCM City.

A leading domestic violence specialist in Vietnam has said there are more and more cases of women being beaten up by their partners – with many victims too scared to complain for fear of bringing shame on their families.

Thuy An, the second runner-up of Miss Vietnam 2018, is set to compete in the Miss Intercontinental 2019 pageant which will transpire in India this December.

EVFTA to boost intellectual property in Vietnam

Millions of tons of material from the dredging of passages and seaports will be thrown into the sea amid concern about the impact on the environment.

Poor children in Bon Sar Village, in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, are now able to read and write thanks to Nay Bim, an elderly villager who donated land and funds to build a school.

Vietnam has made big strides in applying atomic energy in treating diseases, especially cancer. Dr Vuong Huu Tan, Chairman of Viet Nam Atomic Energy Association, talks with VietTimes on how the country is using nuclear techniques in medicine.

Experts all agree that the development of the aviation industry with more airports and air routes put has helped change the central region.

The HCM City Food Safety Management Board plans to strengthen oversight of companies producing food supplements.

A co-ordinated and sustained global effort “is needed to reinforce the circular economy through action-based projects”, an international forum heard in Bangkok.

Vietnamese so love iPhones that they are willing to buy iPhone X with Face ID errors, but the quality of these products remains questionable.

The ninth conference on traditional medicine of countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region will open in Hanoi on September 5, according to the Ministry of Health.

The south-eastern province of Binh Dương is considered to be a place with many public housing projects and kindergartens for workers and their children, but they are proving insufficient.

Vietnam will compile a dossier on the Vietnamese folk art of Dong Ho painting to submit to UNESCO for recognition.