Vietnam has signed seven free trade agreements with multi-lateral, regional and bilateral partners, with hundreds of tariffs on farm produce to be removed by 2018.

Many people in Hanoi and the central city of Hue are buying watermelons to help flood-hit farmers in Quang Nam Province.

A senior Vietnamese official has urged the Transport Ministry to undertake a review of all projects in light of recent cases of corruption exposed by the media.

Pet care services are sprouting up across Vietnam, and bring good earnings for those catering to the growing trend for pet ownership among the young.

Three bodies have been found following a helicopter crash at Semenyih town in Selangor, Malaysia, on April 4 afternoon.

Vietnam’s per capital GDP reached US$1,908 a year in 2013, ranking it seventh in the 10-member ASEAN region, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Vietnam’s public debt rate may climb to 60% of the country GDP in 2016 and economists say the rate may be much higher than the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has forecast.

Vietnam is tightening management over its booming economic zones as success gives way to inefficiency. 

Authorities in Hanoi say plans to cut down trees in Hanoi were aimed at removing sick trees or those at risk of falling, and to clear areas designated for urban transport projects.

Around 100 infertile couples across Vietnam have registered for surrogate pregnancy at three authorised hospitals in the country after the regulation on surrogacy took effect one week ago according to Deputy Minister of Health, Nguyen Viet Tien.