The following black and white photos of Hanoi were taken by a French photographer in 1991.

 Foreign indirect investment (FII) will no longer be the main driver of foreign capital attraction in the second half of 2018. Then what will be in place of it?

 The XQ Embroidery Art Museum in Hue city attracts both tourists and artists. The museum offers visitors a chance to explore and experience traditional Vietnamese embroidery craft.

 With its administrative boundaries expanded on August 1, 2008, Hanoi became the 17th largest capital city in the world with over 3,300 square kilometers.

For many years, the Vietnamese retail market has been the playing field of state-owned and foreign invested enterprises. However, it is now witnessing a strong rise of private investors.

VietNamNet Bridge - Unreasonable development of ecotourism is threatening the environment, experts say.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s healthcare sector has made big progress in recent years, but many people still want to go abroad to have treatment, even for diseases which can be treated in Vietnam. 

Fashion designer Si Hoang has been working as a stage costume designers for many years with a large number of his products used in large-scale productions including two produced by the Viet Nam Cheo Theatre and the Ha Noi Drama Theatre

The Ministry of Education and Training’s (MOET) inspectors have discovered signs of exam cheating in Ha Giang, Son La, Lang Son and Hoa Binh.

The Corn Festival is a traditional celebration of the Cong people in Muong Te district, Lai Chau province. 

 While Vietnam’s tea industry is known around the world, in reality, Vietnam only really exports tea to easy markets like Pakistan and China, while its shares in more stringent markets such as the EU and US are quite modest.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Doan Xuan Hung handed over 18 antiques from different cultural periods to the National Museum of Vietnamese History in Hanoi on August 9.

 Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee have agreed that future official development assistance (ODA) loans are necessary for Vietnam to meet its development potential, but they emphasised the need to spend these loans more effectively.

 Titled “The Push of the Decade,” the first session of Vietnam M&A Forum 2018 explores the new driving force to boost the Vietnamese M&A market.

The Viet Nam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment has recognised a group of 400 Po Mu trees in the forest of mountainous Tay Giang District in Quang Nam Province as Heritage Trees.

Experts believe that buying electricity from other countries, especially China, will not reduce domestic electricity shortage, but could increase the price of electricity and pose risks for national defence.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism have asked Danang authorities to investigate the cause of a jet-ski accident which killed a tourist at a local beach.

 Around 3,000 residents at Tan Tan Do residential area in Hanoi have been using water with the high arsenic concentration for years, putting them at risk of cancer.

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have urged localities to stabilise pork prices which have been on the rise.

Vietnamese contestant Phan Thi Mo has defeated 50 contestants from many countries to be crowned as the World Miss Tourism Ambassador 2018 in Thailand on August 8.