The State Bank of Vietnam has granted a license for Malaysia’s second largest lender CIMB to open a unit here, which will be the seventh fully foreign-owned bank in the country.

Japan’s leasing firm Orix will invest in Vietnam's Bitexco Power in mid-September as it seeks to tap growing electricity demand in the Southeast Asian country, Nikkei Asian Review reported on September 1.

A court in the central province of Khanh Hoa on August 31 handed down jail sentences against three Russian men for using fake bank cards to steal US$13,180 worth of cash from local ATMs last year.

70% of overseas Vietnamese professionals are interested to return home to work, according to a recent survey by recruitment firm Robert Walters.

Doctors at Ho Chi Minh City Children’s Hospital 1 successfully removed a turtle-shell-like mole on the back of a 10-year-old girl after a 3-hour surgery on August 29.

Police are investigating a fall at the Sheraton Saigon Hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City that killed a man on August 29.

Vietnam's agriculture ministry has demarcated no-fishing zones along the central coast, saying these swaths of water need time to recover from the toxic spill scandal linked to Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa. 

A Uber driver is in custody for allegedly robbing a passenger in Ho Chi Minh City last week, police said on August 29.

The Finance Ministry has proposed ending a long-running policy that grants import tariff and value-added tax exemptions to cars imported by Overseas Vietnamese when they return to Vietnam to live or work.

Vietnam could churn out hundreds of outstanding artists next decade as two plans to spot and train talent abroad were recently approved by the government.