EU ministers on Monday reached a compromise on energy saving targets after 2021, taking a first hurdle toward implementing the Paris Agreement on lowering carbon emissions and limiting the worst effects of a warming planet.

 Five houses in HCM City have fallen in a local river due to serious erosion on Tuesday, causing a total loss of hundreds of millions of VND.

Vietnam has not been upgraded to emerging stock market as expected because of the problems relating to the forex market and limited foreign ownership in Vietnamese companies.

The US Department of Commerce last week announced the initiation of anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations on the import of fine denier polyester staple fibre from China, India, Republic of Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Vietnam’s women’s football team moved up one place from No 33 to 32 in the world ranking for the second quarter of 2017.

 Vietnam team ranked eighth at the FIDE World Women’s Team Championship, which wrapped up in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, on June 26.

 As a centre of the Mekong Delta, Can Tho is expected to pioneer in the enhancement of urban resilience in Vietnam, heard a workshop held in the city on June 27.

Interest rates for different terms from now to the end of 2017 are likely to decline by 0.5–1 percent from 2016 thanks to positive signals from the stock and property markets.

More than 100 paragliders from around the world took part in a paragliding festival at TienSa Beach in the central coastal city of Danang on June 23-25.

Switzerland's drive to clinch a sweeping treaty putting its ties with the European Union on firmer footing has run aground as mainstream conservative parties get cold feet ahead of Britain's divorce talks with the EU.

 Most foreign fast food chains in Vietnam have failed to realise their initial expansion plans made upon entering the market. Recently, some have suggested that international brands have failed to defeat local Vietnamese food stalls.

Google’s self-professed mission is to organize the world’s information. But a company known for engineering excellence is still trying to solve the very human problem of how to organize itself.

The “Blue Silk of Viet Nam,” as the central province of Khanh Hoa is sometimes referred to, lives up to this description effortlessly, with its sparkling beaches.

 The Government and people of Vietnam want to strengthen and deepen traditional friendship and cooperation with the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, said Vietnamese Ambassador to Guyana Do Ba Khoa.

The Ministry of Public Security’s Investigation Police Agency on June 26 issued a national warrant for Vu Dinh Duy, former General Director of PVTEX, for alleged crimes related to economic management.

 The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)’ Far East Division held a press conference and a roundtable discussion on Vietnam-Russia relations in Moscow on June 26.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lawyer Nguyen Tien Lap talks to Thoi bao Kinh te Sai Gon (Sai Gon Economic Times) about best way to utilise and manage limited State assets.

Aware of the alarming number of drowning deaths among children in Viet Nam, Nguyen Quynh Huong of HCM City took her seven-year-old son to the local swimming pool for lessons.

Northern Yen Bai City Police began prosecuting Le Duy Phong, who is responsible for readers’ feedback of online Viet Nam Education’s, on Sunday for abuse of office and appropriation of property, 

The central province plans to protect a herd of gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) who have lived in a forest in Nui Thanh for 10 years.