Vietnam defeated Singapore to win gold in Group 2 of the Sudirman Cup, also known as the World Badminton Team Championships, in Australia on May 26.

"The Blue Bird’ by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck was featured in Hanoi last week under the direction of Belgian director Xavier Lukowsk. The Belgian director share his experience during the staging of the play with Nhan Dan

Vietnamese auto manufacturers are trying to increase the localization ratios in their products in order to enjoy preferential tariffs when exporting their cars to ASEAN countries.

A 46-year-old woman, who has lost her two legs in a traffic accident 21 years ago, has been the first to establish an audiolibrary for the blind in Vietnam.

Mr. Pascal Lamy, formerly the Director General of the WTO, tells VET that Vietnam is the greatest beneficiary of globalization and needs to take advantage of human resources in the years to come to stay abreast of the fourth industrial revolution.

Nguyen Van Nam, former director of the Trade Research Institute, under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, speaks to the Hai quan newspaper on challenges in setting up retail chain stores in Viet Nam.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)’s authorised agencies have decided to penalise the Viet Nam Standard and Consumers Association (VINASTAS) for misleading reports on the toxicity in fish sauce.

The malnutrition rate among children under five from ethnic minority communities is double that of Kinh children, experts said at a seminar in Ha Noi today.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Often acclaimed as the queen of flowers in northwestern forests, the rhododendron is commonly thought to grow all over the Fansipan mountains or Mau Son region. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Ambassador Osius visited Khanh Hoa province from May 23 to 24 to highlight Pacific Partnership 17’s (PP17) collaboration with the province. 

Vietnam resolutely opposes China’s Taiwan conducting a number of live-fire exercises in the waters area around Ba Binh island, which belongs to Vietnam’s Truong Sa archipelago.

 National Assembly deputies have raised concerns about how senior officials in Lao Cai Province apparently benefited from a land auction four years ago.

A government report sent to the on-going third session of the 14th National Assembly has raised concern about rampant nepotism at state agencies with 58 cases in nine provinces and cities.

 The Vietnam Centre for Protection of Music Copyright (VCPMC) on May 25 is still attempting to collect copyright fees for songs on TV programmes broadcasted at hotels, saying that the songs are used to do business.

A commuter train was quickly evacuated after it caught fire after slamming into a passenger minibus Friday at a railroad crossing in the city of Tuy Hoa, Phu Yen Province.

 A world three cushion billiards championship got underway today with roughly 100 cueists from around the globe congregating in Ho Chi Minh City for a chance to win some of the US$58,000 in prize money.

 Over $27 billion of bad debts settled

 A visiting delegation from the Solidarity Front for the Development of Cambodia’s Motherland led by its Vice Chairman and Acting General Secretary Nhem Valy, has met with officials from the Hanoi Party Committee.

 The Central Highlands provinces have halted licensing projects involving the use of natural forests for other land needs, particularly for industrial tree plantations, and those likely to overexploit forest products in converted forest areas.

 The Hanoi People’s Committee has approved FPT Information System (FIS)’s proposal to develop an intelligent transport system (ITS) to improve traffic flow in the city.