Hanoi’s People’s Committee recently issued regulations on basement areas for parking at new construction projects in the inner city, part of the effort to tackle the severe parking space shortage.

Techcombank has no foreign stakeholder following HSBC Bank plc’s divestment in July, and has requested shareholders to approve zero foreign ownership temporarily.

 Credit growth rate in the first eight months of 2017 has been estimated at 11.5 per cent compared to the end of 2016, the National Financial Supervisory Commission (NFSC) reported.

 These days, people have shown a tendency to search for property information online, according to a new report of real estate website batdongsan.com.

Lam Dong is leading the country in high-tech agriculture. It grows crops on nearly 50,000ha under hi-tech agricultural methods. This amounts to 18 per cent of the province’s land under production.

 The Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) will assess and honour the top 30 listed companies for best corporate governance in November during its annual convention for listed businesses.

 Quang Binh Province Border Guard collaborated with Laos’ Khammouan Province Public Security Department to investigate five Laos nationals involved in trafficking 12,000 drug pills into Vietnam on Monday.

 The Hanoi Relay Race will begin on November 19 at the island in Ecopark urban area, about 10km southeast of Hanoi.

 Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh is competing at the Vietnam Open  badminton tournament at Nguyen Du Gymnasium on September 4-10 in HCM City.

Coach Hoang Anh Tuan has said that Vietnam are set to win the AFF U-18 Championship, which kicked off in Myanmar yesterday.

 Vietnam’s national men’s football team need to forget their Southeast Asian (SEA) Games’ failure and focus on the AFC Asian Cup 2019’s qualifying round, coach Mai Duc Chung said.

VietNamNet Bridge - The food market for Muslims is vast, with estimated value of $580 billion worldwide, but Vietnamese enterprises still have no business strategies to conquer the market. 

 A delegation of lawmakers will supervise the implementation of laws and policies on the management and use of foreign loans.

By 2020, all telecommunication cables in inner-city Hanoi will be underground, the city’s Information and Communications Department said yesterday.

Vietnam’s health insurance fund is forecast to struggle with an enormous deficit of $434.8 million this year, according to a newly released information from the Vietnam Social Insurance (VSI).

 Cross-ownership in Vietnamese banks will be controlled with stringent new regulations.

 A high-ranking delegation of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) is attending the 20th Asia-Pacific Chiefs of Defence Conference in Canada from September 4-6. 

 The Coast Guard ship Badaro of the Republic of Korea (RoK) docked at Tien Sa port on September 4 for a four-day trip to the central city of Da Nang.

The Vietnam-Laos Youth Friendship Meeting 2017 will be held from September 5-9 in Vietnam as part of a cooperation agreement between the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Lao People’s Revolutionary Youth Union.

 Fifty-eight people died and 58 others were injured in traffic accidents nationwide during the three-day holiday.