Foreign direct investment in Ho Chi Minh City has plummeted this year and there are no large projects on the cards.

Soon after revealing plans to expand its overseas operations, Vietnamese dairy giant Vinamilk has said it will close its representative office in Cambodia next week when its license expires.

The cast and crew of the new King Kong film has moved to the northern province of Ninh Binh, its second filming location in Vietnam where it will recruit more than 40 locals as extras.

A solar eclipse on March 9 will be visible in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City for around two hours in the morning.

The Ministry of Public Security has ordered police in 27 cities and provinces to join an investigation into a fraudulent multi-level marketing company that managed to scam more than 60,000 people.

Police in the Republic of Korea (RoK) port city of Busan on February 24 said they have arrested three people who attempted to smuggle 100 Vietnamese into the city by sea.

Real estate businesses in Ho Chi Minh City have asked the central bank to reconsider its plan to tighten lending for the sector, saying it will adversely affect the market which is still in its first stage of recovery.

Many Chinese “eastern medicine” shops at border markets in Vietnam are selling a wide range of unlicensed aphrodisiacs, disregarding serious health risks, a newThanh Nien investigation has found.

An airport near Ha Long Bay will be opened at the end of 2017 to serve two million passengers a year, news website Dau Tu reported on February 23, citing authorities in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

The Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vinatex) and non-member Hanoi Industrial Textile JSC have filed a complaint claiming that shipping lines from China, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan were ripping them off with an unfair surcharge.