The monetary market’s liquidity has remained stable and foreign currency supply and demand are relatively balanced amidst the uptrend of USD/VND exchange rates over the last few days.

As many as 17 Lao nationals living in Dak Glei district of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum were granted Vietnamese citizenship certificates during a ceremony on May 21.

Local private equity (PE) investment market experienced a thriving year, with 38 transactions in 2018 worth a total of US$1.6 billion, marking a record high for the past decade.

French supermarket group Auchan Retail will temporarily keep its three HCMC-based supermarkets in service while 15 others will be shut down nationwide, said Auchan’s communications director.

After racing to breed tra fish, farmers in the Mekong Delta region, mainly in the Tien Giang and Long An provinces, suffered heavy losses because of the rock-bottom prices of tra fish in the market.

The Government has given the green light to the construction of two key expressway projects—Hoa Binh-Moc Chau in the north-west and Phan Thiet-Dau Giay in the south, under a public-private partnership format.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s decision to raise the electricity price by 8.36% on average is in line with the Electricity Law and the Government’s relevant decisions and directives, according to a report sent to the Government.

Predicting an ‘AI (artificial intelligence) boom’ in the hospitality industry, experts say its use will radically change clients’ experiences.

Google I/O Extended, an annual gathering for software programmers, is scheduled to take place in Da Nang on June 15, attracting 1,000 participants and featuring over 30 booths and 20 speakers.

Online and mobile payments have kept booming, with year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2019 reaching 70% and 97.7%, respectively.

Dozens of pigs infected with African swine fever were culled on Monday in the northern province of Ha Giang by local veterinary sub-department, according to the province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has set up an inter-disciplinary inspection team to supervise coal exploitation at mining areas nationwide in the last six months of this year.

Large areas under elevated roadways in HCM City lie abandoned even as the city suffers from a severe shortage of parking spaces.

H’mong ethnic people live on the high mountains in Vietnam’s north-west provinces. They used to live quietly and closed off.

Phan Thi Phuong is the party secretary of La Van Village, Phong Tho District in the northern province of Lai Chau. For more than ten years, she has devoted her time visiting every household in the district to help eradicate poverty.

Khanh Hoa Province will host the Viet Nam Golf Festival with three key championships at the KN Cam Ranh Golf Links in July.

Theatres in Hanoi are busy launching new shows ahead of International Children's Day on June 1 and the upcoming summer holidays. This season's offerings are diverse and exciting as theatres continue to invest in quality programming.

An exhibition of veteran artists representing different styles of Vietnamese fine arts will open from May 30 to June 15 in Hanoi.

The Government has settled 2,290 out of 2,293 petitions that voters submitted to the sixth session of the 14th National Assembly (NA), the NA Standing Committee’s ombudsman board reported on May 20.

The representative of the Project Management Unit No 2 under MOT said many foreign investors from France, Japan and South Korea have expressed interest in the Highway 45-Nghi Son section of the north-south expressway project.