MobiFone Telecommunications Corporation earned more than VNĐ2.50 trillion (US$111.11 million) in after-tax profit in the first half of this year, down two per cent over the same period last year.

Giant pumpkins weighing between 50 and 100 kilos from seeds grown in the US are a common sight on the family farm of Le Huu Phan in Da Lat in the central highland province of Lam Dong.

Viet Nam's trade deficit with other members of the Association of South East Asian Nations has been widening relentlessly in recent years, going up from US$3.2 billion in 2013 to $4 billion in 2014 and $5.5 billion last year.

No official was found lying in their asset declaration according to the Government Inspectorate at the meeting to review the anti-corruption fight of 2016 on October 28.

 Hanoi may postpone a controversial motorbike ban in its inner-city areas until 2030, instead of 2025 as planned earlier, said municipal Party Secretary Hoang Trung Hai at an interview with reporters on October 28.

 The Vietnam Cinema Association has dusted off an old plan to transform the local movie industry into a leading one in Southeast Asia by 2020, but experts say it’s just a lot of the same old tripe.

 The mass fish deaths reported in Linh Dam Lake in Hanoi’s Hoang Mai District are not related to its water quality, Hanoi Environment Protection Branch officials said.

 Trinh Nhat Minh, a nine-year-old boy from Hanoi, beat three other finalists to win the fourth season of The Voice Kid Vietnam.

 The fourth graders of Doan Thi Diem Primary School in Hanoi won the three highest prizes in the primary category in the final round of the WeCode 2016 Contest held last Saturday.

 Vietnam attracted over US$17.61 billion in new and additional pledges of foreign direct investment (FDI) as of October 20, representing an 8.7% decline compared to the same period of 2015, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VietNamNet Bridge - The cooperation between FPT, the nation’s largest information technology group, and Vinamilk, the nation’s biggest dairy producer, has raised the public's curiosity.

 Young people are leaving the Mekong Delta, Vietnam's rice bowl, while the region's economic growth is declining.

The U19s football team will be awarded over VND1 billion (US$45,000) for reaching the semi-finals of the U19 Asian Cup and qualifying for U20 World Cup 2017.

 The second Vietnam International Judo Tournament 2016 – the People’s Police University Cup officially kicked off on October 29 in Ho Chi Minh City.

 The Government’s monthly meeting opened on October 29 morning with focus on measures to create a leap in the last quarter’s economic growth rate and curb this year’s inflation within 5 percent. 

 The Vietnamese Embassy and Students Association in Italy said they have recorded no Vietnamese citizens affected by the powerful earthquake in the host’s central region on October 30.

Vietnamese national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines yesterday announced that it ruled out food poisoning in its meal that was suspected to cause poisoning in a group of Japanese students because they did not eat the meal.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc suggested enhancing cooperation between Vietnam and the Czech Republic in order to further expand the bilateral relations in a more practical and effective manner.

 A Friendship Order of the Vietnamese State has been presented to former Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defence Thorvald Stoltenberg to honour his substantial contributions to the two countries’ amity. 

 There were 22,486 enterprises resuming operations during the first ten months of this year, an increase of 38.8 per cent against the same period last year, according to the latest report from the Agency for Business Registration.