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Hanoi district to resettle street vendors in local market
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.
Vietnam proposes drastically increasing ‘environment tax’ on petrol
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.
Vietnamese painting sold for record US$1.2 million
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.
Expat groups mobilizes money, volunteers to clean up Saigon on Earth Day
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).
26-yr-old Vietnamese gets job offers from ‘Big Four’ accounting firms
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.
NGO, enterprise promote better sanitation for remote Vietnamese children
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.
Vietnam food producer Masan Group gets US$250 mln investment from KKR
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.
Ho Chi Minh City plans to invest in smart parking
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.
Workers hospitalized in suspected mass food poisoning in Vietnam
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.
Vietnamese farmers rush into raising catfish over Chinese demand
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.