Hanoi authorities have proposed that 20,000 taxis operated by 60 local taxi firms should share the same livery colours from 2026.

 Many stores in Hanoi have offered discounts in the run-up to the Black Friday weekend.

A foreign tourist was seriously injured when a fire broke out at a hotel in the Hanoi's Old Quarter early Thursday morning.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a casino project on Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, which will let locals with a monthly income of over VND10m (USD428) to gamble.

 A man in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has been sentenced to two years in prison for insulting state and government leaders on Facebook.

 Viet Nam’s top cueists Tran Quyet Chien, Nguyen Quoc Nguyen and Ma Minh Cam will join the Asian team to compete in the Ceulemans Continental Cup, held from December 14 to 16 in Bordeaux, France.

 Overseas Vietnamese sent home 3.8 billion USD through Ho Chi Minh City-based financial institutions during January-October.

 The Vietnamese internet economy has almost tripled in three years to reach 9 billion USD in 2018, driven by e-commerce and online media, a new report released by Google and Temasek showed.

 The Phu Tho People’s Procuracy yesterday proposed handing down jail terms on former senior officers at the Ministry of Public Security and other defendants for their alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar online gambling ring.

 Interest rates for Vietnamese dong savings are rising, so local enterprises are afraid that their borrowing costs will surge as they need loans to fund their goods production plans for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday.

 Vietnam was in the top five among 34 countries ranked for private participation in infrastructure (PPI) projects in the first half of this year, the World Bank said in a report released earlier this week.

Analysts several years ago predicted that foreign retailers, with their powerful financial capability and experience, would dislodge Vietnamese retailers out of the home market. But their business results have become worse.

 The Long Thanh International Airport project in the southern province of Dong Nai has been scheduled to begin construction in 2020 and operate in 2025, according to Airports Corporation of Vietnam.

 Many boats have been left to deteriorate at Hanoi’s West Lake while owners are still waiting for decisions from local authorities.

 Besides buying shares of Vietnam’s large securities companies, foreign investors have also poured significantly in domestic small securities companies through merger and acquisition (M&A).

 US and China’s firms are looking at shifting production, assembly or sourcing of supplies to third countries, with Southeast Asia as the leading choice.

 Some 80 percent of EuroCham members also believe the EVFTA will improve Vietnam’s competitiveness compared to other countries such as China, Japan and South Korea.

One of the best jobs now is tourism consultancy, especially giving advice to local authorities on local tourism development.

 Enterprises need to change their mindset to move into the digital world ahead of the fourth industrial revolution, a government official said this week.

 As many as 667 equitized State-owned enterprises (SOEs), including many big names, have yet to list their shares on the stock exchanges so far, said Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung on November 21.