An art road, with a total length of 1.5 kilometres, is displaying 111 painting works on boats at Tam Thanh commune, Quang Nam province. 

 Not everyone is pleased with talk of raising the retirement age.

 Measure included in amended Law on Tourism passed by National Assembly on June 19.

 92% of Vietnamese people shopped online in first half and 96.2% said they would make at least one online shopping transaction, latest Mastercard report finds.

Traditional taxi companies have their work cut out staving off the attack from ride-hailing apps.

 Japanese retailer holds recruitment event, triggering debate about its intentions in Vietnam.

 The real estate market has become busier with a large number of merger & acquisition (M&A) deals recorded in the last two quarters. 

 The National Traffic Safety Committee has requested an urgent inspection into a big board of spikes that was deliberately put on a road between Phu Tho and Tuyen Quang provinces.

 Second-hand consumer goods have been smuggled and abandoned in HCM City.

 Never before have game shows with the participation of children boomed in Vietnam like at the present, which has raised concerns over using children as a tool to earn money.

 The Japan Business Association in Vietnam (JBAV) has said Vietnam is losing its advantage of cheap labour and must focus on developing support industries and Japanese firms can help with technology transfers.

Vietnamese player Bao Tram defeated her Chinese rival Tan Zhongyi in the third round of FIDE Women’s Team Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia on June 19.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese products have more opportunities than ever before to conquer the world market. 

 Nguyen Thi Hong, deputy governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, said as of May end bank credit had grown at 6.58 per cent in the year-to-date, an eight-year high.

Eight years after the phase-in schedule for the relevant WTO commitments, Vietnam is setting forth a legal framework for foreign invested enterprises to trade in pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients to fulfill its WTO commitments.

 Half of consumer loans in Vietnam are mortgages or related to house repairs, which raises fears about banks’ liquidity.

 Although commercial banks have yet to release their financial reports for the second quarter of 2017, many of them revealed their operating results in the first five or six months of 2017.

 The policy of zero interest rate on USD deposits is showing some shortcomings and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) may need to increase it, especially in light of certain pressures on the VND/USD exchange rate.

 A banking-enterprises link-up programme in HCM City has enabled 4,138 businesses to borrow over VND124.3 trillion (US$5.5 billion) from banks in the first five months of this year, a conference heard on Friday.

 The Viet Nam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) on Saturday proposed that its shareholders approve a share buyback plan that will take place in 2017.