The strong development of industrial parks would make a large contribution to the domestic property market, according to experts.

 The Ministry of Industry (MoIT) will continue to support local steel enterprises this year in their production and business, especially use of trade defence measures protecting the domestic steel industry.

 As 2018 brings newer and bigger free trade agreements (FTAs), Vietnamese enterprises are faced with tough choices. They can either adapt and move up the global supply chain, or stand by while imported goods flood the country’s market.

Wire artist Bui Xuan Hoang’s hands are full of callosities and scars. They are the result of years of curving metal wire to make artworks.

 “The victory is a pride of Vietnamese sports,” Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc wrote in a letter to the U23 team, who just made it to the last-four round of the Asian Football Confederation U23 Championship.

 Thai police have arrested a Thai Vietnamese for his links with a case of trafficking of 14 rhino horns from South Africa to Thailand in December 2017, local media reported.

 Thousands of people, mostly students and volunteers, gathered at Hanoi University of Science and Technology in Hanoi to participate in a blood donation festival on Sunday.

 The Mekong Delta province of An Giang is being helped to produce a detailed and workable draft plan to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. 

 Viet Nam’s national men’s football team still hold the No 1 spot in the Southeast Asian region, according to FIFA’s January ranking release.

 Vietnamese movie star Truong Ngoc Anh will star in a leading role as a psychologist named Anna in a US film produced by Roger Corman.

 Former Viet Nam national football coach Edson Araujo Tavares will go head-to-head with his old national player Nguyen Minh Phuong of SHB Da Nang in an international friendly match between Yokohama FC and Da Nang today.

 More than 23,400 units of blood have been collected at 30 Chủ Nhật Đỏ (Red Sunday) blood donation camps in 19 provinces and cities after a month.

 Urban dwellers in Hue City have condemned the mess and chaos created by the installation of underground culverts in most city streets.

 The size of Vietnamese domestic enterprises is shrinking, according to the latest data from the 2017 economic census. Experts said this signals improvements in the country’s business environment.

 HCM City authorities are encouraging consumers to buy food products with clearly labelled sources of origin to ensure food quality.

A fruit seller refused to sell her papayas to a potential customer because she realised he was from the same village. 

 During the first 20 days of 2018, Hanoi Market Watch Force has inspected two huge shipments of bubble tea materials that lacked a certificate of origin.

 Nearly three weeks since RON92 grade petrol was replaced with E5 bio-fuel, customers have questioned the bio fuel’s quality, Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

 A ceilling collapse at Tran Nhan Tong High School in Hai Ba Trung District is still haunting students and parents more than four months after it happened. They claim that no proper solutions have been taken to improve school safety.

 The police of Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, has decided to start legal proceedings in a criminal case of illegally transporting endangered and rare animals.