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HCM City seeks to become logistics hub

HCM City is working on a logistics development strategy that would make the city a major logistics hub and reduce logistic costs to 16 per cent of Viet Nam's GDP in 2025.

 

Vietnam Opportunity Fund completely exits Vietjet

VinaCapital’s Vietnam Opportunity Fund (VOF) has sold its entire holding in Vietjet Aviation JSC (HoSE: VJC).

 

Challenges ahead in meeting EUs quality standards

Viet Nam will have to address some challenges in order to fully grasp the benefits of the EU – Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and its opportunities for the export of agricultural products.

 

Vietnam sets goals to reduce plastic waste

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) has decided that Vietnam has to control ocean plastic waste at source, on the mainland and on the sea.

Vietnam lead Southeast Asia in latest FIFA rankings despite falling two spots

Vietnam national team still lead Southeast Asia in the latest FIFA rankings with a wide distance ahead other regional rivals, despite having fallen two spots.

Former Tour de France champion to race in Vietnam

Cadel Evans, 2011 Tour de France winner and 2009 Road Cycling World Champion, will compete in the Coupe De Hue Gran Fondo 2019 in Hue on Saturday.

Textile and garment enterprises must pay more attention to chemical management

Textile and garment enterprises consume a large amount of chemicals for their production activities. 

Vietnam's top chess player defeats defending European champion at FIDE World Cup

Vietnamese International Grandmaster Le Quang Liem has beaten defending European champion Vladislav Artemiev of Russia in the third round of the FIDE World Cup in Russia.

Vietnam needs to new growth model to escape middle-income trap

Building a reasonable growth scenario and finding out ways to achieve the goal is how that Vietnam can escape the middle-income trap.

Vietnam’s energy transition faces challenges: experts

Vietnamese and Danish lawmakers and experts talk about barriers that Vietnam has faced in energy transition to reach sustainable development goals, experience from Denmark and the two countries’ partnership in the field.

 

Hanoi stipulates colours for taxis by 2026

All taxi cabs operating in the capital city of Hanoi will have to be the same colours by 2026.

Real estate projects in HCM City's central area remain stalled

A number of real estate projects with investment of more than VND1 trillion (US$43 million) in the centre of HCM City remain delayed even while the land area for new projects in the city has become increasingly limited.

Kong: Skull Island film set to be removed out of Trang An tourism complex

The film set for Kong: Skull Island will be removed out of Trang An tourist site in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

China's illegal claims in the East Sea threaten integrity of UNCLOS

Behind China's violations is the intention to control the East Sea through promoting maritime claims that are completely contrary to the provisions of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). 

 

Thailand: floods claim 34 lives

Floods and landslides caused by tropical storms and monsoon since late August have killed 34 people and affected the lives of more than 400,000 people in 32 northern and northeastern provinces of Thailand.

Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition launched

The Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition (VIET) was officially launched in Hanoi on September 19.

 

Palm oil blamed for 39 percent of forest loss in Borneo island

The palm oil industry was responsible for at least 39 percent of forest loss on the biodiversity-rich island of Borneo between 2000 and 2018, according to data from Indonesia-based Centre for International Forest Research (CIFOR).

VN weightlifter wins silver medal at World Chams in Thailand

Vietnamese athlete Nguyen Tran Anh Tuan earned a silver medal at the International Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Thailand on Wednesday.

 

New Deputy Minister of Information and Communications appointed

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on September 19 signed a decision to appoint Pham Anh Tuan, Chairman of the Members’ Council of Vietnam Post Corporation, as Deputy Minister of Information and Communications.

 

Thousands of schools in Malaysia, Indonesia close due to smog

Thousands of schools in Malaysia and Indonesia were forced to close on September 19 as air quality has reached unhealthy level due to haze from forest fires.