As many as 17 Lao nationals living in Dak Glei district of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum were granted Vietnamese citizenship certificates during a ceremony on May 21.

Local private equity (PE) investment market experienced a thriving year, with 38 transactions in 2018 worth a total of US$1.6 billion, marking a record high for the past decade.

French supermarket group Auchan Retail will temporarily keep its three HCMC-based supermarkets in service while 15 others will be shut down nationwide, said Auchan’s communications director.

After racing to breed tra fish, farmers in the Mekong Delta region, mainly in the Tien Giang and Long An provinces, suffered heavy losses because of the rock-bottom prices of tra fish in the market.

The Government has given the green light to the construction of two key expressway projects—Hoa Binh-Moc Chau in the north-west and Phan Thiet-Dau Giay in the south, under a public-private partnership format.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s decision to raise the electricity price by 8.36% on average is in line with the Electricity Law and the Government’s relevant decisions and directives, according to a report sent to the Government.

Online and mobile payments have kept booming, with year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2019 reaching 70% and 97.7%, respectively.

Dozens of pigs infected with African swine fever were culled on Monday in the northern province of Ha Giang by local veterinary sub-department, according to the province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has set up an inter-disciplinary inspection team to supervise coal exploitation at mining areas nationwide in the last six months of this year.

Large areas under elevated roadways in HCM City lie abandoned even as the city suffers from a severe shortage of parking spaces.

H’mong ethnic people live on the high mountains in Vietnam’s north-west provinces. They used to live quietly and closed off.

Phan Thi Phuong is the party secretary of La Van Village, Phong Tho District in the northern province of Lai Chau. For more than ten years, she has devoted her time visiting every household in the district to help eradicate poverty.

Khanh Hoa Province will host the Viet Nam Golf Festival with three key championships at the KN Cam Ranh Golf Links in July.

The Government has settled 2,290 out of 2,293 petitions that voters submitted to the sixth session of the 14th National Assembly (NA), the NA Standing Committee’s ombudsman board reported on May 20.

Vietnam will take on the Philippines for the bronze medal in the Southeast Asian Football Federation U15 Women’s Championship in Chonburi, Thailand on May 21.

Electricity retail prices should have been raised by 9.26 percent instead of 8.36 percent if EVN had correctly calculated the VND3.26 trillion VND foreign exchange rate difference in 2018 into its power production costs.

The Overseas Vietnamese community and international friends in Russia’s Ulyanovsk city and neighbouring localities laid flowers to pay respect to President Ho Chi Minh at his statue on May 19.

Torrential rain and whirlwind have damaged many houses and uprooted trees in the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh.

Capital divestment from State-owned enterprises had slowed and was still facing difficulties, said Dang Quyet Tien, director of Corporate Finance Department under the Ministry of Finance.

The number of private, unlicensed container and truck yards in HCM City’s districts 2 and 9 continues to increase because of a shortage of legal truck yards in the city.