A survey by the Institute of Strategic Studies shows that among the six sources of air pollution in Hanoi, motorcycles and cars account for 70% of toxic substances discharged into the environment.

 Among emerging countries, Vietnam recorded the strongest increase of mobile payments at 61% in 2019 from a 37% growth rate year earlier, according to PwC’s latest Global Consumer Insights Survey. 

 HCM City now has 10 severely downgraded apartment blocks with hundreds of households residing in. 

 Stars under the national senior football team, who are over the age of 22, are having a great change to join the men's football at the upcoming 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games 2019 in the Philippines later this year.

Vietnam may still be in the early stages of smart home development but the potential is huge.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has spent huge money to organize the teaching of English in the national educational system, but students are still taking classes outside the school.

Hanoi has found itself under a blanket of heavy fog for the past three days. This has caused many difficulties for local people as they go about their daily lives and traffic in the city.

 A man has been successfully rescued after he got trapped under a train while crossing the tracks in HCM City on March 18.

VietNamNet Bridge - The government, environmental ministry and local authorities are seeking a waste treatment technology that work well in Vietnam, where waste is not sorted at source.

 The real estate sector saw 840 new enterprises established in the first two months of this year, 5.3 percent of the country’s total new firms during the period. 

 Many major domestic and foreign investors have pumped capital into the central city of Da Nang in the first months of this year. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a national programme on efficient and economical use of power in 2019-2030, aiming to save 5-7 percent of power consumption nationwide from 2019-2025.

The HCMC Department of Construction has proposed abolishing regulations on the collection of apartment maintenance fees to handle disputes between apartment building investors and management boards.

 Cashless transactions, currently accounts for 10% of total payments in Vietnam, are expected to increase to 50% in the next three years, according to Pham Thanh Duc, CEO of M-Service – the operator of e-wallet MoMo. 

 Hoang Anh Gia Lai JSC (HAG) recently announced that it has been fined to VND10.59 billion ($460,434) in tax arrears due to false declarations leading to a lack of payable tax amounts.

VietNamNet Bridge - Grab and Now, which both operate in the food delivery sector, are now competing with Woowa Brothers, a South Korean unicorn valued at $2.6 billion, which has taken over Vietnammm.com.

 Media firm Yeah1 Group (YEG) has lost nearly VND4 trillion (US$171.7 million) – half of its market value – since early this month, in spite of efforts by company leadership to “save” the price of its stock by purchasing large amounts of YEG shares.

Foreign and Vietnamese lecturers and postgraduates will conduct research about landslides, river pollution, climate-change adaptation, transnational marriages and Khmer migration.

 No more African swine fever outbreak was detected in Hanoi on March 18, according to the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Hanoi People’s Court on March 18 sentenced three people to death and one to life imprisonment for drug trafficking by air.