Vietnam will continue working with other member nations to implement effectively the ASEAN Community Vision to 2025 in the spirit of solidarity, dynamism, and creativity.

 Leaders of the general departments, which are subject to removal, will be moved to new positions that match their expertise or become directors of intermediate level departments.

 The Transport Ministry has proposed a timeline for pushing transport business service providers to install cameras to monitor their vehicles.

E-charter autos, including Grab cars, with fully registered information may not need to install taxi signs or add taxi badges to their rearview mirror, according to the latest draft decree which the Ministry of Transport sent to the Government.

Cell phone subscribers with 10-digit phone numbers will reportedly not be affected by the coming two network code shifts in mid-September of this year and July of next year, officials said.

 The HCMC government on August 6 asked the municipal police to investigate multilevel cryptocurrency scams, particularly a recent case involving HCMC-based crypto mining firm Sky Mining.

 HCMC will introduce taxi stands in District 1 on a trial basis for six months, starting today, August 8.

 Thirteen provinces in the Mekong Delta region are facing a shortage in physicians, prompting delegates to raise concerns over the issue at a conference on August 7 on healthcare specialists and staff training. 

 Most Vietnamese enterprises that have franchised their brands to other countries have done so only when these opportunities were offered by foreign firms, instead of mapping out specific strategies on their own.

VNPT has announced that it will follow instruction from the Ministry of Information and Communications to converse all of its 11-digit mobile phone numbers to 10-digit ones in September 15.

The Ministry of Transport has submitted to the government a draft decree on taxi transport management, under which taxi firms will have to replace vehicle tracking devices (black boxes). 

The biggest problem hindering the development of 3D printing in Vietnam is not technology and equipment, but the lack of materials.

The popularity of mobile e-commerce in Vietnam has seen its strongest yearly growth with the usage of e-payment systems increasing at an estimated rate of 22% per annum.

ASIAD 2018 sees record number of athletes

Foreign portfolio investment (FPI) will no longer be the main driver to attract foreign capital to Vietnam in the second half of 2018 as it was in the first six months of the year.

 Vietnam’s U23 team won the U23 International Championship –Vinaphone Cup 2018 which concluded at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on August 7. 

 The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced the launch of an investigation into the avoidance of paying anti-dumping and anti-subsidy taxes on cold rolled steel (CRS) imported from Vietnam.   

 A low pressure system in the East Sea has forecasters concerned due to its unpredictable development.

 Over 140 households in Hanoi's Chuong My District have had their houses disinfected after 10 days submerged under flood water.

 As many as 2,000 children have been victims to violence and abuse annually in Vietnam according to a report by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.