Though observers have different views about the establishment of a ‘super committee’ to manage state capital and assets in enterprises, they agree that the current policy will come to an end.

Vietnam had a bumper year in attracting FDI (foreign direct investment) in 2017. The three coal-fired thermal power projects registered by Japanese investors had total capital of $7 billion.

Of the 102 medicinal plants used by Pako-Van Kieu ethnic people in the Central Region to treat diseases, Dr. Nguyen Thi Hoai has found 30 species containing antioxidants with the ability to kill cancer cells.

Vietnamese are the second largest community of expat workers in Japan, which employs 1.28 million foreign workers, just after China. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrived in Wattay international airport in Laos’s capital city of Vientiane on the morning of February 4 for the 40th meeting of the Vietnam-Laos Inter-government Committee to which he is the co-chair.

For many ethnic people, solar energy is a new concept, but Pham Thi Nam, a 50-year-old Muong woman from Dong Luong Commune in Thanh Hoa Province’s Lang Chanh District, now knows what it’s all about.

Nguyen Hong Thuc, director general of the Viet Nam Union of Science and Technology Associations’ Settlement Research Institute, talks to the Tuoi tre newspaper about the need to adjust development strategies ...

The current rise of the stock market reminds investors of days 10 years ago, when any purchase would bring high profits to investors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dang Quang Huu, 44, of Dakrong District in the central province of Quang Tri, is known as a bank owner who has risen from owning nothing to offering loans to 600 poor local households. 

Tax reform passed by the US Congress at the end of last year may affect Vietnam’s economy as US investors are likely to send their investment back home, where the CIT rate has been slashed, Vietnamese economic experts have warned.

 The domestic property market reported more sales in January compared to December 2017, according to the Ministry of Construction’s Housing and Property Market Management Department.

 With the urban green growth development plan to 2030 recently approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Viet Nam is hastening the transformation of its urban economic growth model towards green growth and climate change adaptation.

Accelerating agricultural restructuring towards large-scale and high-tech production became critical for the sector involving 70 per cent of the country’s population but contributing just below 20 per cent of the country’s GDP.

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 Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Pham Quang Vinh has had a working visit to Florida and Arkansas States of the US to boost partnerships between the localities and Vietnam, especially in economy, trade, investment and education.

Twelve out of 22 defendants in the “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management, causing severe consequences” case in PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC), have lodged their appeals.

 Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Hong Xiaoyong has been awarded the insignia “For Peace and Friendship among Nations”, the most notable reward of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO).

 Vietnam shipped nearly 6 million tones of rice in 2017, up one million tones compared to the year before. Continuing the success, since the beginning of 2018, many enterprises have earned high price orders.

The Nhue-Day river basin continues to suffer from pollution despite a range of environmental protection projects that have been carried out by several agencies, including Hanoi's Department of Natural Resources and Environment. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Awareness of continued gender inequality in Vietnam has grown in the last several years, though the goal of eliminating gender discrimination has not brought equality to all Vietnamese women.