Hanoi’s Old Quarter is a charming place that many want to explore.

Starting next year, minimum wage in the private sector will increase by 5.5 per cent after three-party negotiations between representatives of the State, employers and employees ended yesterday.

The Ministry of Public Security’s Investigation Police Agency has initiated criminal proceedings against the director of Nhat Cuong Company, a major mobile phone dealer in Hanoi, for alleged money laundering.

The negotiating skills of executive boards of trade unions need to be strengthened, Tran Thi Thanh Ha, deputy head of the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour's labour relations department, said.

Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich attended the 13th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) in Bangkok, Thailand on Thursday, which ended with a joint declaration on security.

The Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam (DRVN) on Wednesday lifted the suspension of fee collection at three build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects.

The 2019 Southeast Asian Amateur Golf Team Championship will be held in northern Vinh Phuc Province from July 24 to 27.

Functional forces of the central province of Quang Nam have managed to contain three fires in Hiep Duc District’s planted forests.

The International Women’s Cycling Tournament, the An Giang Television Cup, will be held on July 13-18.

Vietnam’s population has reached 96.2 million people as of April 1, ranking 15th in the world and third in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Hanoi: 80 percent of new landed property supply located in the east

The Saigon Chamber Music ensemble will host the “Young Virtuosi Concert 2019” at the HCM City Conservatory of Music on July 13.

Heavy rains in recent days have caused many landslides, especially on national highways, in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau.

The International three-Cushion Billiards Tournament will take place in the southern province of Binh Duong from Thursday to Sunday.

The Transport Ministry has defended its proposal to spend US$58.7-billion on the North-South express railway project following the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s calculations that the cost would be less than half of this.

At the age of 71, Nong Ngoc S. had little rest as he took on the double duties of tending to the family’s crops and his grandchildren.

Thua Thien - Hue authorities have proposed two solutions to deal with the tomb of one of the wives of King Tu Duc (1847-1883) which was intentionally bulldozed by a construction company clearing the site to build a parking lot.

Magician Nguyen Phuong has broken his own world record set last year with a 10-minute-long performance in front of a high-tech 4D LED screen 16m in length.

Three years after a five-year plan to renovate half of the 476 old tenements was announced by HCM City authorities, only a fraction of them have been refurbished or rebuilt, causing suffering to many people living in them.

Hanoi's artists, from the past to the present, have long talked about two giant bas-reliefs on a wall hidden behind a row of houses at the Viet Nam Fine Arts University.