Some more streets in Hanoi’s Nam Tu Liem District are being fenced to serve the construction of a racetrack to host the country’s first F1 Grand Prix next year.

American conductor Christopher Zimmerman, music director of Fairfax Symphony Orchestra in the US, will lead a concert of classical music at the HCM City Opera House on October 26.

Dozens of trees are dying in Van Lang Park in Ho Chi Minh City's District 5.

Despite the slowdown in global deal-making due to ongoing worldwide economic uncertainty, Vietnam remains active in M&A in 2020, according to a new report by Baker McKenzie.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung attended a Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on October 23.

Local authorities on both sides of the Vietnam -China border have agreed to work extra hours to allow more Vietnamese agricultural goods to cross the border into China.

To date, China has completed 11 hydropower dams out of total 19 dams in the upper course of Mekong.

Students at Le Ngoc Han and Luong The Vinh primary schools won the top prizes in the annual Robothon Contest 2019 for students at primary schools throughout HCM City held on October 20.

Rapper Den Vau, nominee for Best Impressive Singer at VTV Awards 2019 of Vietnam Television, will perform in HCM City on November 9.

An audio visual performance centering around and inspired by light will be organized at the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art in Hanoi on October 26.

A Vietnam – Belgium cultural and economic exchange festival will be held in Hai Phong City this weekend, from October 25 to 27.

Vietnam has made significant improvements in getting credit and paying taxes, resulting in increases of 5 and 6.1 points against last year’s results.

The Government has called on the legislative National Assembly (NA) to raise the monthly base salary for the coming year to VND1.6 million (US$69) to keep up with the country’s advancements in overall development.

The Government has proposed borrowing VND459.5 trillion (US$19.9 billion) next year to make up for the State budget deficit, increasing regular expenditures and social insurance debts.

The HCMC government has urged the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to cease issuing new licenses for the exploitation and use of groundwater throughout the city, due to increased water pollution and land subsidence.

Performing pioneering AI research in Vietnamese language for the Vietnamese people is the mission that AILab under the HCM City National University is pursuing.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport supports the establishment of Kite Air as room remains large for airlines utilizing small airports, in turn meeting Vietnam’s huge transport demands.

District-level authorities and departments in HCMC will connect surveillance cameras in the city to a centralized monitoring system, in addition to consulting with contractors on the creation of a smart urban monitoring center.

Many projects in the automation sector are on par with the international level, but Vietnam is still lagging far behind other countries in putting them into service, said Le Hoai Quoc, chairman of the HCMC Automation Association.

If supporting industries cannot develop and automobile joint ventures continue importing car parts for assembly, Vietnam’s automobile industry will not survive after 2025, analysts say.