Pham Minh Tuan, the CEO of FPT Telecom, speaks to the newspaper Kinh te & Do thi about the group’s determination to solve the serious problem of traffic congestion in Ha Noi through its IT application.

Oscar-nominated French screenwriter and film director Olivier Lorelle was in Viet Nam this week for the premiere of his film Ciel Rouge. This is the fourth film made by a French director and entirely shot in Viet Nam, 

 At Tao Dan Park in District 1, HCMC every Sunday morning, visitors may notice a quiet book reading corner for the public. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has promulgated a new decision allowing the Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN) to raise the average retail price of electricity by between 3-5 per cent on its own, without approval from MoIT.

Imports from South Korea shoot up, KVFTA has Korean firms targeting fresh sectors, Mexico pitches Latin American free trade deal with Vietnam, Winter-spring crop yields over 19 million tonnes of rice

 International Association of Geodesy Working Week 2019 to be held in VN, State money asked for flood control at TSN airport, Private hospitals still facing barriers, HCM City to have open top buses this month

 An anthology of legendary tales for children has sold out just one week after it was launched, on June 24.

 China’s Beijing Baic Motor beat Viet Nam in a match to determine the fifth to eighth positions of the SMM 2017 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship on July 5.

 HCM City plans to expand its trial programme to classify solid waste before treatment to all 24 districts by next year.

 Hanoi People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung on Wednesday denied rumours that the city was planning to replace the trees around the symbolic Hoan Kiem Lake.

 Excavation workers on Wednesday stumbled upon a 344kg live bomb at a construction site in a residential area in the central province of Quang Tri's Huong Hoa District.

 The iParking service, which makes it easier for drivers to find and pay for parking, will be rolled out to four central districts in Hanoi, namely Hoan Kiem, Hai Ba Trung, Dong Da and Ba Dinh, at the beginning of October.

 The K (Cancer) Hospital successfully operated on a 22-year-old woman and removed a huge ovarian tumour that weighed 16kg on Wednesday.

 Hon Hai, a tiny uninhabited island off the south central province of Binh Thuan, attracts thousands of birds every summer.

 The second National Youth Photo Festival 2017 was launched on Wednesday to encourage young professional and amateur photographers to capture images of Viet Nam and its people.

 Vietnam’s new forest areas rose 4.5 percent year-on-year to 90,700 hectares in the first six months of the year thanks to favourable weather condition, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Two Vietnamese and 21 foreign films will be screened at Vietnam’s cinemas this month, including the Hollywood blockbuster Spider-Man: Homecoming and War for the Planet of the Apes.

Da Nang authorities will ask for State funding to build a sea dyke to prevent erosion in Son Tra Peninsula after a villa project in the area was eroded last week.

VietNamNet Bridge - With turnover of $375 million in May, fruit and vegetables were among the biggest export items for Vietnam, while imports of the same equalled $183 million. 

 Vietnam aims to export four million tonnes of rice by 2030, pursuant to a strategy for developing the country’s rice export market in the 2017-20 period with a vision to 2030.