A large number of local firms are still struggling to make market entry into CPTPP member countries and grasp opportunities arising from the agreement that came into force over three months ago.

Vietnam ran a trade deficit of US$11.9 billion with China in the first four months of the year, up a staggering 53.8% year-on-year. 

Italian techno producer Serena Butler will perform at The Observatory on May 10. Photo from the organiser’s Facebook page

The HCM City Dragonfly Theatre will stage a new play The Best Laid Plans on May 17-18 and 23-24. Photo from the organiser’s Facebook page

People poured back into Hanoi on Wednesday after the five-day vacation, causing congestion at many bus stations and on highways into the capital city.

Banks, which all reported big profits for 2018, are using the money to improve their financial capability.

A new step forward has been taken in implementing the plan on sales of coal-fired thermopower ash and slag with the release of national standards on slag used for surface leveling.

Vietnamese actor and scriptwriter Le Bình, who made his fame with the role of a Southern farmer in the 1997 TV series Đất Phương Nam (The Southern Land), died on Wednesday morning at the age of 66.

The Prime Minister has released a directive to fight loan sharks who are targeting vulnerable people.

More than 120 houses were damaged by whirlwinds and flashfloods before dawn yesterday in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

Vietnam saw 111 traffic accidents on the first four days of Reunification Day and Labour Day holiday, killing 80.

HCM City has raised bus fare from today, May 1, which is expected to help increase the city’s bus revenues by VND92.5 billion per year (USD4 million).

Two women in the northern province of Quang Ninh have been arrested for cheating a tourist who bought two kilos of their lima beans.

Many people continue to swim at a rubbish-strewn man-made beach in the northern province of Quang Ninh’s Ha Long City.

Vietnam is amending the Law on Investment 2014 and Law on Enterprises 2014, aiming to bring half a decade old laws up to speed with current realities.

The private sector in Vietnam has long been playing an important role in the development of the country’s economy.

NA Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu has met with Vice President of the State Council and Comptroller General of Cuba Gladys Bejerano Portela and Vice President of the Council of Ministers Marino Murillo as part his working visit to Cuba.

2018 was the year witnessing the outstanding development of the new payment method via mPOS device. There was 27,500 places accepting payment via mPOS, posting 99 percent year-on-year increase.

The coastal area of Go Cong Dong, a major agricultural hub in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, has taken effective measures against drought and saltwater intrusion into rivers this year.

Removing Israel’s blockade and restoring the management role of the Palestinian authority in Gaza would promote a long-term solution to the situation in the strip, Pham Hai Anh, Chargé d’Affaires of the Vietnamese mission to the UN said.