Authorities in Hanoi will reserve a part of the Thanh Xuan Bac Market in Thanh Xuan District for those street vendors who have been forced off the sidewalks in ongoing campaigns to restore order on the streets.

The Vietnamese government is drafting an amendment to the law on environmental protection tax, which includes a proposal to more than double the current tax on gasoline.

A painting by 20th-century Vietnamese painter Le Pho has been sold for nearly US$1.2 million at a recent auction in Hong Kong, setting a new record for the highest priced Vietnamese painting ever.

A party held recently  by a group called Vietnam is Awesome has raised around VND14 million (US$600) and encouraged dozens of volunteers to clean up Ho Chi Minh City on Earth Day (April 22).

At the age of 26, a Vietnamese man has been hunted by all four of the ‘Big Four’ accounting firms – the four largest professional service networks in the world – and founded North America’s largest Pan-Asian organization for business professionals.

Around a hundred elementary school students from a disaster-prone coastal commune in southern Vietnam has attended an a recent event to improve their hygiene practice.

Vietnamese food producer Masan Group Corp on April 3 said it has received a $250 million investment pledge from global investor KKR & Co LP, in the latest move by a foreign firm seeking to tap Vietnam's fast-growing middle class.

A series of projects on the construction of smart parking garages has been laid out in a bid to resolve the parking space problem in Ho Chi Minh City.

Scores of workers at a Korean-invested electronics factory in north-central Vietnam have been hospitalized with symptoms including vomiting, nausea and fainting after having lunch in the canteen on April 1.

A surge in demand for catfish from the Chinese market has led farmers in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta to grow a large volume of the type of fish, despite many warnings from experts.