Despite good business results, 11 out of 17 listed commercial banks saw share prices decrease in the first half of the year.

Half Vietnamese, half Spanish artist Xuan Le has returned to Vietnam to participate in the 2019 Hanoi Dance Festival. His performance Vòng Lặp (Loop) has been warmly received by audiences.

Silk is traditional material which was used by royal painters to paint portraits for the king and generals in Vietnam. However, in recent years, the trade has fallen into oblivion.

HCM City authorities have planned to open pilot public bus lanes on Dien Bien Phu and Vo Thi Sau streets in late 2019.

Delegates to the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-52) in Bangkok on July 31 discussed the building of the ASEAN Community and foreign relations, and reviewed preparations for year-end summits.

I first learned about the Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands when I was at primary school in the 1980s. Every year, when Tết (Lunar New Year) approached, the students wrote letters and collected gifts to send to the soldiers stationed on the islands.

Longan fruit is a specialty of the northern province of Hung Yen. The fruit is round, its skin is light yellow and firm, while its flesh is fragrant, sweet and succulent.

The figures about imports/exports and investments in the first months of the year show that Vietnam did not receive big benefits from the trade war as estimated by some US agencies and media. In fact, the risks remain high.

Digital is fundamentally changing banking in Vietnam and transforming the industry's competitive landscape.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) have named six Vietnamese players from both Becamex Binh Duong FC and Hanoi FC who could play a key role in the upcoming AFC Cup ASEAN Zonal finals.

The 18th Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship, which takes place in New York, USA on July 29-31, has announced Vietnam’s leading telecom service provider Viettel as its premier sponsor.

The judging panel have announced the Top 3 national costume entries which Hoang Thuy could potentially wear in her role as Vietnam’s representative at the upcoming Miss Universe 2019 pageant.

Hanoi police on Tuesday started criminal proceedings against three men suspected of posing as journalists to blackmail 20 construction material firms in Hanoi and neighbouring provinces.

The Viet Nam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) in collaboration with the National Humanitarian Information Portal 1400 launched an SMS campaign to mobilise funds to support Agent Orange victims in Vietnam on Tuesday.

Tran Quoc Pagoda in Hanoi and Buu Long Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City have been listed among the top 20 most beautiful Buddhist temples voted by the US magazine National Geographic.

Vietnamese grandmaster Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son enjoyed a straight-forward victory during the second match of the Belt and Road China Hunan International Chess Open 2019 in China.

A ballet team made up of Vietnamese children bagged a gold medal in the ballet group category of the Asia Art Festival 2019 which recently concluded in Singapore.

Vietnam recorded 6,219 cyber attacks since the start of 2019, a year-on-year surge of 104 percent, said the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT).

Four people were killed when a train hit a passenger bus in the southern province of Binh Thuan on Wednesday morning.

The British Embassy in Hanoi yesterday joined the global fight to tackle human slavery.