Erratic planning and other problems related to land use are hurting the business sector, according to the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade.

HCMC wishes to learn from the Dutch city of Eindhoven’s experience in smart city development and cooperation models between the state and businesses, schools, and research institutes, especially in smart city building and operation.

One of 40 swans at a river in the northern city of Haiphong has taken to Hanoi for the treatment after it fainted.

HCM City authorities have decided to reclaim a 10,000-square metre prime land plot to build a school.

Deputy Defence Minister, Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh led a delegation of Vietnamese defence officers to attend a meeting of EU Chiefs of Defence (CHODs) in Brussels from May 19-22.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Spain recently celebrated the 129th birth anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh and the 42nd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Spain (May 23, 1977).

The traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia are developing actively, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.

Insurance auxiliary service providers have the right to join professional associations to develop the insurance-finance market, according to National Assembly deputy Tran Thi Quoc Khanh.

Chatbot Vietnam JSC has won an award for a technology solution in the “E-business” category at the UN’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in the Switzerland.

A total of 203 Vietnamese people passed Japan’s exam for working visas in the restaurant industry under the country’s new visa system, the Japanese government announced on May 21.

A tourism week is taking place in Tam Coc, Ninh Binh province, aiming to promote tourism in the locality during the summer when rice fields turn bright yellow and look majestic, romantic and poetic.

Vietnam holds huge potential for developing the resort market thanks to high economic growth and growing travel demand, experts said at a recent workshop in Hanoi.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on May 21 arrived in Moscow for his official visit to Russia at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev.

A four-year-old boy was hospitalised last week in Hanoi due to Japanese encephalitis (JE). He was suffering from a high fever and seizures.

The 14th National Assembly (NA) on Tuesday weighed in on the amended draft Law on Education during its seventh session. Textbooks and national exam were the topic of a heated debate.

The services sector in case of growing over 7.2% in 2019 could boost Vietnam’s GDP to be equivalent or even higher than last year's growth of 7.08%, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

Vietnam’s public debt hit the lowest since 2015 at 58.4% of the GDP as of the end of 2018, much lower than the projection of 63.9% made by the Ministry of Planning and Investment last August.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has analyzed some problems that limit Vietnam’s economic development, and proposed solutions to help Vietnam in building a socio-economic strategy from 2021 to 2030.

Vietnam has made major inroads over the past years to swift from peripheral to mainstream industrial nation which, in terms of investment, is at the center of attention.

Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam's central province of Quang Binh has been named among the 10 most diverse national parks in Southeast Asia, according to South China Morning Post.