With its crusade to renew itself to meet customers’ growing demand, businesses must balance online and offline sales and incorporate a full range of services seamlessly. 

 Companies in Vietnam have incurred a financial impact of $10 million or more, which is the highest costs from cyberattacks in Southeast Asia, according to the Cisco 2018 Asia-Pacific Security Capabilities Benchmark Study released on January 18.

 Living to the ripe old age of 90 may depend on your body size -- both height and weight -- as well as your level of physical activity, and seems to influence a woman's lifespan more than it does a man's, 

 The Vietnam men’s national football team will climb one place from 100th to 99th in the latest International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) rankings with a total of 1,238 points, according to the calculations of Twitter Footy Rankings.

 Domestic and foreign medical device businesses in Vietnam are expected to enjoy favourable conditions thanks to a newly-issued decree.

 Vietnam’s real estate market will be shaped by five main trends in 2019 according to a JLL report.

Vietnamese people applying for Schengen visas to Germany and Portugal will be able to apply via application centres of the VFS Global Company as of February 20 in Hanoi and HCM City and March 25 in Da Nang.

 Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport is preparing to launch a bus route connecting Tan Son Nhat Airport to Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province before Tet Holiday.

 The tourism department of central Quang Binh province announced on January 21 plans to woo Hollywood moviemakers.

 Vietnamese fintech firm Finhay had successfully raised nearly US$1 million from Singapore-based Insigna Venture Partners and other investors, the company announced on January 17.

While iPhone sales falling in many markets, leading to a sharp drop in Apple share prices, sales have continued to go well in Vietnam.

 The Vietnamese Government has allocated 20 percent of State budget spending or 5.8 percent of national gross domestic product (GDP) each year on education, Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has said. 

 Nearly 100,000 books will be put on show at the annual book street festival in downtown Ho Chi Minh City from February 2-8 in celebration of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday 2019.

Petrol imports this year should be sharply reduced as the Nghi Son Refinery comes into operation and the output of Dung Quat Refinery meets most of the local demand, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai.

 Vietnam’s northwestern region is now more poetic than usual as spring is coming. 

 Vietnamese hip-hop star Suboi, young EDM artist Teddy Chilla, and artist and choreographer Pierre Larauza and Emmanuelle Vincent from Brussels-based studio t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e will cooperate in the solo contemporary dance “Mutante”.

 Artist Phung Tien Son will hold a solo exhibition featuring his sound installation Soundtracks at independent art space MoT+++ in HCMC from February 23 to April 23.

 Pho Ong do, a street lined with calligraphers’ stands, has been opened at the HCMC Youth Cultural House at the corner of Nguyen Thi Minh Khai and Pham Ngoc Thach streets in District 1.

 The driver of the truck that crashed into a group of cemetery-goers in Hai Duong City yesterday afternoon, leaving eight people dead, tested positive for heroin, the local media reported, citing provincial police.

 Local residents in Hanoi will experience a fifth-generation (5G) network service once it is launched on a trial basis in the first quarter of the year, according to the municipal Department of Information and Communications at a meeting held today.