Hanoi Mayor Nguyen Duc Chung has asked the city's Inspection Agency to conduct a thorough check over the purchase, usage and effectiveness of the Redoxy3C substance which has been used to treat polluted water at 87 lakes in Hanoi.

Five pupils drowned while playing near a dam in the central province of Nghe An, local authorities said.

If elected to the UN Security Council (UNSC), Vietnam will have more opportunities to prove its capability and play a more important role in regional and global issues.

As of May 29, floods, whirlwinds, and landslides in Vietnam’s northern region killed two people and injured two others, while causing heavy property losses.

The Government Office of Vietnam and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in e-government development in Hanoi on May 30.

Heavy rainfall is expected to continue in the northern region and the central province of Thanh Hoa over the weekend, the National Hydro-Meteorological Forecast Centre has warned.

Lao Cai Province’s mountainous district of Bat Xat was left in a state of shock on Saturday following the devastating news that four schoolgirls had drowned in a local river.

Four Vietnamese firms have been named in this year’s Global 2000 list by Forbes, an annual ranking of the world’s biggest and most powerful public companies.

Since last year the Vietnam Education Publishing House has been researching and compiling the textbooks and has even published some first grade textbooks to trial them, an act that has come in for some criticism in the media.

Conference looks to strengthen cyber security for public, financial-banking sectors

Vietnam could face a power shortage in the near future due to surging demand and development difficulties.

The long-awaited new decree guiding to the Law on Planning is expected to open a wider business development space for businesses to venture further into projects in Vietnam in the months ahead.

Vietnamese teenagers were at risk of social exclusion in later life because of the threat of video game addiction, a doctor has warned.

Amid a sudden increase in foreign direct investment inflows from China, experts are calling for the creation of “filter tools” for FDI with the aim of fostering high value manufacturing and sustainable development.

Household businesses in Vietnam may be exempted from paying fees for enterprise registration and first-time provision of information needed to become an enterprise.

As many as 85 percent of industrial enterprises in Vietnam still lag behind the fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), and only 13 per cent are at the beginner level, one official has warned.

The Commission for the Management of State Capital at Enterprises (CMSC) this year will oversee the finance of 19 State-owned groups and corporations.

Vietnam is poised to become a leading electronics powerhouse in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, in the coming years if it sustains its current pace of growth, according to a report from Singapore’s DBS Bank.

Although the number of women in politics continues to rise, the ratio of women in high positions remains low.

The Ministry of Health has issued a warning to not sell or use nitrous oxide N20, a colourless and sweet tasting gas, for recreational purposes.