Writer Nguyen Thanh Nhan has translated more than 30 books into Vietnamese. He recently introduced two new translations, Thomas Hardy’s The Return of The Native and Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has directed the Ministry of Information and Communications in co-ordination with the State Bank of Vietnam to develop a “mobile money” project.

More than a year since the first concert, the Sun Symphony Orchestra has proved that classical music is not strange to Vietnamese audience. In an interview with VietNamNet, Music Director Olivier Ochanine was so proud of his “child”.

VN News talks with UNDP Viet Nam Country Director Caitlin Wiesen on how Vietnam can promote green expenditure in the future.

Vo Van Trung has become the first person in his village to go high tech and introduce modern facilities on his farm.

Despite having 3,000km of coastline with up to 2,700 hours of sunlight a year, the development of the renewable energy industry is yet to meet its potential. Director of the Green Innovation and Development Centre speaks on the issue.

The eighth Southern Folk Cakes Festival is being held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, with eight main activities which visitors should not miss and more than 220 booths introducing nearly 100 types of southern traditional cakes.

Fitch Ratings on Wednesday assigned Viet Nam’s National Power Transmission Corporation (EVNNPT) a long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating (IDR) of 'BB' with a stable outlook for the first time.

The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) has assigned a credit growth limit to each commercial bank in 2019, with priority given to those who met Basel II’s capital safety and risk management standards ahead of schedule.

Environmental pollution in some craft villages, especially food processing villages in the central province of Nghệ An, has gotten worse. It not only affects local communities but also raises concerns over food safety.

Dutch company Upp! UpCycling Plastic and Toàn Hải Vân JSC (a member company of TTC Land) on April 11 signed a co-operation agreement to build a cyclic plastic-waste disposal plant on Phú Quốc Island.

The Sài Gòn High-Tech Park Incubation Centre (SHTP-IC) and New Energy Nexus in Southeast Asia are kicking off the New Energy Nexus programme to support Vietnamese start-up companies in the renewable energy field.

The appearance of a 15ha sandbank, 1.8km off the Cua Dai Beach since early this year offers a chance to research changing riverhead flows and sand sedimentation at lower lands, according to experts.

The Vietnamese futsal team have been drawn in Group C in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U20 Futsal Championship 2019 finals, the AFC announced on Thursday.

An exhibition in Hanoi is portraying the life of northern Vietnamese through black-and-white photos.

Millions of people have been rushing to attend Hung Kings Festival in the northern province of Phu Tho.

From 2019 onwards, tenants in Hanoi’s office market will have even more options to consider, given the increasing volume of office supply to be introduced in both Grade A and B, according to CBRE’s quarterly report released on April 10.

The National Assembly Standing Committee on April 12 approved the resignation of Le Dinh Nhuong as deputy head of the NA’s National Defense and Security Committee and stripped him of his NA membership

The authorities of Kien Giang Province has signed a petition that was then sent to the government on establishing Phu Quoc city on the basis of the existing Phu Quoc Island district, with one island and 21 other islets. 

The HCMC People’s Procuracy has lodged an appeal against the lower court verdict in the divorce case between Dang Le Nguyen Vu, founding chairman and general director of coffee giant Trung Nguyen Group, and his ex-wife, Le Hoang Diep Thao.