Digital economy to constitute one-third of Vietnam's GDP in 2030

Nguyen Minh Luong, a 71-year-old man living in Long Xuyen City in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, is often away from home all day to help the poor.

Nguyen Trung Khanh, director general of the Vietnam Tourism Administration, talks to Vietnam Economic Times newspaper about his agency’s efforts to improve the tourism sector’s competitive advantages.

HCM City will host Hò dô 2019 (HOZO), an international music festival on December 13-15, according to the city's Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Nguyen Doan Tu, general director of the General Department for Population and Family Planning, spokeabout changes to the number of children per family   and the necessity of adjusting population policies in the country.

The emotional moments when Hanoi was liberated on October 10, 1954 will be revived through a programme entitled ‘Memory of Hanoi – 65 Years’, which starts today in the capital’s Old Quarter.

The People’s Committee of Hanoi has assigned Hoan Kiem District to expand the pedestrian zone to the south of the Old Quarter.

Drones are being used on a trial basis to spray crop protection chemicals in the Mekong Delta provinces of Dong Thap and Long An under the region’s high-tech agricultural programmes.

High tides, dykes and land subsidence are causing serious flooding in urban areas in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region, according to Nguyen Huu Thien, an expert on the Delta's ecosystem.

Despite Government limitations on raw mineral exports, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) says help is on hand for local enterprises.

A woman in the central province of Quang Binh has been fined by police for spreading ‘fake news’ on her Facebook page.

The National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs continued its meeting on Thursday on the implementation of autonomy at public hospitals.

Steel company plans to switch bourse

Vietnam has recently found cases of foreign enterprises falsely labelling their products as originating in Vietnam to illegally benefit from the free trade agreements (FTAs) the country is a member of and avoid trade defence mechanisms.

Among the sounds of hammers and steel-cutting machines, 50-year-old Nguyen Ngoc Hong, a worker of Pha Rung Shipyard Company in Hai Phong City, puts a vessel through final tests after construction has been completed.

This show makes a record in all of VNOB history when tickets are sold out one month prior to show day.

The employee turnover rate has been on the rise in the last three years, reaching an alarming rate of 24 per cent this year, according to a report from the human resource consultancy Anphabe.

The declining demand for field-dried straw has triggered crop burning in Hanoi’s outlying districts, leaving the city choking in haze.

65 years have gone since Hanoi was liberated from the French. The capital city has changed in more ways than one. Let’s take a glance at the glorious victory through a series of photos below.

The stability of the VND has contributed to decreasing demand for the dollar as people prefer the national currency due to the large spread between interest rates on VND and the dollar.