The retail industry has changed dramatically in the digital age where everything is connected, requiring retailers to continue to innovate to better serve customers’ diverse needs.

 HCM City’s visual arts culture in recent years has seen the opening of new contemporary art spaces, including The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre (FCAC), BLANC Art Space and Đông A Gallery.

Focusing on the heap of sand and rocks, the grey-haired man in a faded shirt took little rest as he worked to fill in a road pothole. Next to him was a tricycle carrying his supplies, lying beneath a board saying “Road under repair”.

 The current rat hunting season has offered a good chance for many farmers in Hanoi’s outlying district of Thach That to earn money.

 Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang underscored the need for APEC to affirm and uphold its leadership in seeking new drivers for growth.

 President Tran Dai Quang met on November 11 with General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Bounnhang Vorachith.

 Asia-Pacific executives are increasingly looking at Vietnam as a market and means as they see the population is increasing but the economy is growing, and people have more income.

 President Tran Dai Quang reiterated Vietnam’s consistent policy of attaching importance to the friendship and cooperation with Cambodia during his meeting with Cambodian PM Hun Sen in central Da Nang city on November 11. 

 US President Donald Trump arrived in Hanoi on the afternoon of November 11, beginning his two-day State visit to Vietnam at the invitation of President Tran Dai Quang. 

 The draft Law on Special Administrative, Economic Units needed to be substantially revised to make it feasible and to fully exploit resources for boosting economic development.

 Leaders from 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) issued the Da Nang Declaration as they ended their meeting chaired by President Tran Dai Quang in the central city on November 11.

 The 31st ASEAN Summit (ASEAN-31) and related meetings, which will be held in Manila, the Philippines, from Sunday to Tuesday, are set to focus on orientations and measures for enhancing connectivity to realise the ASEAN Community Vision 2025.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met his Thai counterpart Prayuth Chan-ocha on the sidelines of the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in central Da Nang city on November 11.

The APEC 2017 Economic Leaders’ Meeting ended on Saturday with leaders of 21 member economies adopting the Đà Nẵng Declaration.

 The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the Vietnamese Government treasure comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership with China, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 President Tran Dai Quang hosted a banquet in Hanoi on November 11 evening in honour of President Donald Trump and a high-ranking delegation of the US, who have been on a two-day State visit to Vietnam. 

 Clear, transparent and efficient policies are needed to encourage more foreign investors to jump into the Vietnamese securities market if it is to reach its considerable potential.

 A foreign investor, who did not want to be named, bought all 48.3 million shares of Vinamilk offered at an auction at the HCM Stock Exchange on Friday.

 HCM City People’s Committee has asked relevant departments to tackle problems in granting house ownership certificates to overseas Vietnamese to encourage their investment into the real estate market.

 Prices of apartments in the local market in the first 10 months of the year witnessed a downward trend, Ha Quang Hung, deputy director of the Department Housing Management and Real Estate Market under the Ministry of Construction, said.