The country’s index of industrial production (IIP) saw a year-on-year increase of 9.5 per cent in the first eight months of 2019, a report from the General Statistics Office (GSO) shows.

Vietnam’s total revenues for retail trade and services reached an estimated  VND3.21 quadrillion (US$137.4 billion) in the first eight months of 2019, up 11.5 per cent year on year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has announced.

Handicraft products made by craft villages in Hanoi are currently very similar in design, impacting competitiveness.

Three leading travel agencies in Vietnam, which own a range of luxury hotels, look set to equitise by the end of next year.

Almost 20 years ago, Vu Tri Long, now 50 years old, was listed as a poor man in Village 5, Song Cau Town, Dong Hy District in the northern mountainous province of Thai Nguyen.

An international workshop, titled ‘Climate Change and Agriculture: Status, Impact, Adaptation, Insurance in Vietnam and Taiwan’ has been held in Hanoi.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to spend hundreds of billions of VND on building more than 100 reservoirs to store rainwater and control flooding by 2020 under a flood-control programme.

Vietnam's total rooftop solar power capacity is expected to reach around 2,000 MW by the end of 2020, according to Vietnam Electricity (EVN).

Redefining children as those under the age of 18 is key to helping younger people access child protection services before they are legally classed as an adult.  

Vietnam has considered adding regulations of household business to the revised Law on Enterprises that is set to be submitted to the National Assembly for approval in October.