Foreign banks have exited Vietnam or narrowed operations in the Southeast Asian country, against early expectations that they would soon eat into the market shares of local lenders.

Vietnam has outlined plans to boost revenues from rice exports over the next decade by focusing on a higher quality product and selling more outside Asia.

A number of decades-old trees along a street in Ho Chi Minh City’s center are slated to be either cut or relocated to make way for a bridge construction, the municipal transport department said on July 5.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has reaffirmed its stance that the ‘environmental protection’ tax on fuel should be capped at VND8,000 a liter, apparently turning a deaf ear to local experts and members of the public.

Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City are now uncertain about how to mobilize capital for major anti-flooding projects after the World Bank ended its official development assistance (ODA) last month.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has launched an online information-sharing platform, allowing commuters to monitor traffic in real time and report congestion or other infrastructure incidents to authorities via their smartphones.

An American physiotherapist has given up her home and career in the US to realize her dream of helping patients in Vietnam.

Twenty-four doctors and residents have been exposed to HIV after providing emergency assistance to the victims of a fatal collision on June 30 between two coaches in Kon Tum Province, in Vietnam’s Central Highlands,.

A man has died from multiple injuries after being attacked by his own buffalo that he had brought to a local buffalo fight fest in northern Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City is looking to ban all pork without origin traceability from its market, starting at the end of this month, a move expected to improve the municipality’s food safety records.