Vietnamese singer Pham Ha Linh is set to perform at the China-ASEAN Music Festival 2019 which is scheduled to take place between May 28 and June 3 in Nanning, China.

The Standing Board of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption has urged authorised agencies to step up the fight against corruption.

The monetary market’s liquidity has remained stable and foreign currency supply and demand are relatively balanced amidst the uptrend of USD/VND exchange rates over the last few days.

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 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.

Google I/O Extended, an annual gathering for software programmers, is scheduled to take place in Da Nang on June 15, attracting 1,000 participants and featuring over 30 booths and 20 speakers.

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

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

Theatres in Hanoi are busy launching new shows ahead of International Children's Day on June 1 and the upcoming summer holidays. This season's offerings are diverse and exciting as theatres continue to invest in quality programming.

An exhibition of veteran artists representing different styles of Vietnamese fine arts will open from May 30 to June 15 in Hanoi.

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.

Vietnam needed to build a legal framework to promote the development of over-the-top (OTT) media services as the Government strives to build a digital economy and accelerate digital transformation.

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.

The coastal path in Hau Loc District is the most polluted area in Thanh Hoa Province as it has become an illegal dumping site.

The HCM City School Festival Basketball Tournament - the 2019 Milo Cup began at the Phu Tho Stadium in District 11 on Saturday.