Vietnam's real estate market sees solid performance in office segment, according to latest Savills report.

 Pham Thi Lan, a woman from Nam Sach, Hai Duong Province, had lived with a 10kg tumour for 39 years.

 A young man has been killed after being stuck in a restaurant dumbwaiter lift in Hanoi.

The domination of many foreign companies in the Vietnamese market has been featured in funny paintings by a local blogger, attracting great attention from the public.

 A hundred and nine food poisoning patients in the central province of Thanh Hoa were released from a local hospital on Wednesday.

 Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son brought home the last gold medal for the Vietnam delegation in the men’s team’s blitz chess category at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, which concluded in Turkmenistan on September 27.

 US President Donald Trump’s announcement of tightening control over money outflows from the US, gave rise to concerns over possible impacts on inward remittance flows to Vietnam. Financial expert Huynh Trung Minh scrutinises the issue.

 Vietnamese consumers are continuing to embrace electronic payments making 38 per cent more transactions in the year ended June 2017, Visa said in a release on September 27.

 KB Securities is set to acquire Viet Nam’s Maritime Securities for about 37.8 billion won (US$33.16 million), according to news reports on September 27.

 Researchers at Vietnam National University (VNU) on Wednesday presented results of a consumer lending survey showing that the majority of Vietnamese people have never used a consumer loan.

 The Ministry of Finance has said that efforts to equities State-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been hamstrung by a lack of accountability and bottlenecks in defining enterprises’ asset value.

 FIFA referee Jumpei Iida will conduct a match in the national V.League’s round 21, which will be held from October 13 to October 15.

VietNamNet Bridge - Economists, while agreeing that Vietnam has opportunities to boost exports to the US and other choosy markets, say enterprises may not be prepared to grasp the chances afforded to them. 

The Communist Party of Vietnam will continue strengthening solidarity and traditional friendship with the Mozambique Liberation Front Party and promoting cooperation between the two countries, a Vietnamese official has said. 

 Booming cities and vigorous urbanisation are challenging Vietnam’s future, according to a business conference titled "Smart Cities" held in Hanoi on September 27.

 The World Economic Forum’s latest global competitiveness list, released on September 27, ranked Vietnam 55th overall, up five places from last year and 20 from five years ago.

 The Government has approved a plan to simplify administrative procedures, citizenship papers and databases related to population management run by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

 There are more than 7.7 million domestic dogs in Vietnam but just 41 per cent of them are vaccinated.

 The German Embassy in Hanoi on Wednesday officially refuted rumours that the European country temporarily stopped issuing visas for Vietnamese nationals.

 The investigation security agency of the central province of Nghe An’s Police on September 27 arrested Nguyen Viet Dung for conducting propaganda against the State.