Vietnamese farmers have many opportunities to work abroad as Asian markets have growing demand for agricultural labourers.

Authorities in Hanoi are considering a proposal to recover To Lich River, which was once one of the capital city’s most beautiful rivers but has been ruined by serious pollution and the discharge of thousands of cubic metres of untreated wastewater.

Da Nang city to boost cashless transactions

The Viet Nam Railway Corporation (VNR) said it needs VND2.5 trillion (US$108 million) to build fences, frontage roads, and eliminate illegal level crossings by 2025, reported online newspaper vietnamplus.vn.

The 2018 Vietnam Start-up Day. This year the event will be held on August 23 and 24 at the Riverside Palace in HCM City’s District 4, with nearly 200 domestic and foreign start-ups in attendance.

Loss-making, low-profitability State-owned agriculture firms should be dissolved and made bankrupt, said Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue on August 21.

Many Vietnamese companies in supporting industries that can produce high-quality parts are nevertheless struggling to enter large international supply chains or are only able to supply low-value items to them.

Vietnam and Cambodia have signed the Minutes of Agreement on cooperative contents and programs in 28 sectors.

Danang real estate market sees upbeat developments

Many long-haul truck drivers have been found parking their vehicles and sleeping along the HCM City-Trung Luong Expressway, causing traffic disorder and posing a risk of traffic accidents.

A 30-metre section of Highway No 91 in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang fell into the Hau River on Tuesday after the soil underneath it eroded.

Colombian Jordan Parra who competed for Ynghua Dong Nai took both overall yellow jersey and green jersey at the Mekong River Delta cycling tournament, known as the Gạo Hạt Ngọc Trời Cup, which finished in Can Tho Province on Tuesday.

Vietnamese-American Thai Son Kwiatkowski was ousted from the men’s singles first qualifying round of the US Open on Tuesday.

Two top officials of Tra Vinh City were arrested on Wednesday as part of a probe into a land tax evasion ring that caused estimated losses of nearly VND120 billion (US$5.2 million) to the Government.

Hanoi People’s Court on Tuesday handed sentences to nine officials of Bich Hoa Commune for violations in land management.

Hanoi Police have commenced legal proceedings against and detained three people on the charge of running a commercial surrogacy ring, local police said on August 21.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has decided to ban passengers and crew members from bringing to planes 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops produced and sold between September 2015 and February 2017.

The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta should use technology to create rice varieties resistant to bacterial leaf blight, speakers told an international conference that ended on Tuesday in Can Tho.

Residents from Quang Tan Commune in Central Highlands Province of Dak Nong claimed their lives are being affected by a passion fruit processing facility in the region.

Five years after the Government issued Decree 67, which aimed at supporting fishermen to build bigger and more modern steel-hulled boats, the decree has hardly been a panacea for the country’s fishermen.