Local banks posted positive business results for last year and see solid prospects for 2019 despite the SBV's policies on tightened credit growth.

 It is often said that you get what you pay for. But in this case, that price was far too high. A group of foreign tourists’ memories of Vietnam are almost certainly scarred after they were ripped off on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese cuisine is one of the country’s biggest tourist attractions, but there are some dishes you need a bit of courage to eat, like snake meat.

VietNamNet Bridge - To record plastic pollution in the waters of Vietnam, Hung Lekima traveled 7,000 kilometers, including 3,260 kilometers of coastline, by motorbike.

Phan Huu Thang, vice chairman of Vietnam’s Association of Foreign-Invested Enterprises, confirmed that hi-tech processing and manufacturing, smart agriculture, healthcare, and renewable energy will be the hottest sectors for FDI.

 While the world has been preoccupied with the explosive growth of China, relatively little attention has been paid in Australian business circles to another fast-growing market in the Asia Pacific region, Vietnam. 

 Viet Nam saw a trade deficit of US$84 million in the first two months of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 The central city aims to accelerate economic growth from 7.68 per cent to 12 per cent, while more drastic measures and administrative reforms are needed to turn the city into an as a destination to investment and tourism.

 Banks and insurance companies are ramping up co-operation in selling life insurance products (bancassurance) to cash in on the high growth segment as some have posted annual triple-digit growth rates in the business.

 Last August, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc issued Decision No.986/QD-TTg on the Development Strategy of the Banking Sector.

 The 4.25 Club from the DPRK won the championship title of the International Women’s Volleyball Tournament – LienVietPostBank Cup 2019 after defeating LienVietPostBank team of Vietnam 3-0 (25-16, 25-14 and 25-15) in the final match on March 1.

 The 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games will have more sports than in the past, according to the Viet Nam Sports Administration.

Juventus Academy Việt Nam’s director Đinh Hồng Vinh has been named national team head coach Park Hang-seo’s assistant coach. 

 Vietnamese cueist Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện has booked a ticket to the quarter-finals of the Carom Billiard three-Cushion - Survival 3C Masters tournament in Incheon, South Korea.

 Sin Suối Hồ Market in Lai Châu is 35km from Lai Châu City. The market takes place once a week on Saturday, where locals not only exchange goods, meet one another, but also relax, and have fun. 

 Overseas Vietnamese singers have returned to perform in their homeland after Tết (Lunar New Year), mostly in live shows on large stages in HCM City and Hà Nội.

 Sàn Art, a non-profit fine arts organisation in HCM City, has launched a residency camp for visual artists living in Việt Nam and other Southeast Asian countries. 

 A Vietnamese woman described by police as the ringleader of a people smuggling operation has been jailed for eight years in the United Kingdom.

 The HCM City’s People’s Committee has approved a proposal to build a new apartment building to replace building E located at 518 Võ Văn Kiệt Street in District 1.

 Farmers in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) Province of Gia Lai are waiting for buyers for Japanese sweet potatoes harvested from hundreds of hectares, danviet.vn reported.