HCM City has seen a downward trend in dengue-fever disease, but a surge in hand-foot-mouth disease since August, particularly in the new school year.

 Samdech Say Chhum, acting head of state of Cambodia and President of the Cambodian Senate highly valued the support of Hanoi for Phnom Penh during his meeting with Secretary of the Hanoi Party’s Committee Hoang Trung Hai on September 9. 

Most efforts by authorities to keep tabs on vendors using social media platforms to sell goods and services have come up short.

49-year-old Dang Thi Hai in Ha Dong District, Hanoi, has 14 children and calls them by number as it's easier to remember.

Visitors to Van Don will be impressed by the animation in the locality: convoys of trucks laden with building materials, machines and equipment head toward major construction sites. 

Vietnam has to build on its impressive agricultural successes in the past few decades by deploying advanced technology and building a brand name for every product, Chief Representative of JETRO Hironobu Kitagawa said.

Ms. Anke Mastenbroek, Water Business Line Director at Royal HaskoningDHV, tells VET about Vietnam's water supply issues and water treatment solutions.

Tax authorities are considering taxing business conducted on social media platforms, but further study is needed before this becomes reality.

The negative effects of social media and the stresses of modern life are leading to higher instances of mental health issues in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam needs to draw up a long-term plan to stop receiving ODA within 15-20 years, experts say. As of June this year, it is no longer receiving preferential loans from WB.

 Hometels are the latest innovation in Vietnam’s hospitality real estate sector and like those that came before face a number of risks yet also potential.

Local employees in the information technology (IT) sector will earn much higher salaries if they have a good command of foreign languages, according to survey results of job recruitment websites VietnamWorks and TopITworks. 

 Conducting business online has never been so fruitful in Vietnam as now, but whether tax authorities can extract collections remains up for debate.

The decade-long partnership between Techcombank and HSBC is coming to an end.

 Several ministries have expressed concern that the Metro Line No. 2 project in HCMC might make the country’s public debt soar as its cost has surged to about US$2.15 billion from the originally planned US$1.3 billion.

 The draft cyber information security law will be submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee this month, the Ministry of Public Security said on its website.

 Some top experts in payments, e-commerce and retail gave their insights into the future of online trading in Viet Nam at a two-day seminar in HCM City this week.

HCMC has set a target that 15-20 percent students of each educational institution in the city will use school bus by 2019-2020. However statistics show that the number of students using this service has been reducing. 

 Vietnam is consistent in the employment of multilateral and multifaceted diplomacy to enhance traditional partnerships with Balkan States, including Serbia, stated Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 Deputy Minister of Defence Nguyen Chi Vinh’s visit to the Republic of Korea from September 6-9 was fruitful, contributing to enhancing defence cooperation between Vietnam and the RoK as well as regional countries.