Mobile World Investment Corporation, Vietnam’s biggest mobile-phone retailer, has announced a plan to open 30-50 convenience stores in the last quarter, local media reported.

Lights illuminate the city’s modern side in this photo essay

Vietnam has seen a big increase in the number of new companies in the past two months after the introduction of more open and simple business laws.

Police in Quang Ninh Province have rescued an infant after arresting five people who were selling him across the border to China.

Though the government seeks to globally integrate Vietnam -- 15 free trade agreements signed since 2007 -- its tardiness in reforming policies is preventing businesses from benefiting from the FTAs, delegates said at a recent economic forum in the central province of Thanh Hoa.

Vehicles were not allowed to enter 40 streets in downtown Hanoi on August 29, from 4 p.m. to midnight, as the areas are reserved for the National Day parade's final rehearsal.

A full-rigged ship that the Vietnam Navy contracted to buy from Poland is currently undergoing trial run, according to the builder, Polish shipyard Marine Projects Ltd.

Forest officers in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has found the carcasses of five endangered douc langurs in a forest but no poachers inside.

Vietnam's agriculture ministry is drafting a circular on genetically modified organisms, requiring foreign suppliers of the plants for local farmers to build seed factories within four to five years since getting their licenses, news website Saigon Times Online recently reported.

Vietnam's labor productivity has managed to narrow its gaps with other Southeast Asian countries, but it will be decades long before the country can catch up with them, the Ministry of Planning and Investment said.