Petrol imports this year should be sharply reduced as the Nghi Son Refinery comes into operation and the output of Dung Quat Refinery meets most of the local demand, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai.

Phu Quoc island district continues to deploy synchronous solutions, creating favourable conditions, supporting investors and enterprises to implement projects as planned, speeding up construction and contributing to local socio-economic development.

The Vietnamese motorcycle market in 2018 broke its sales record set seven years ago with nearly 3.4 million units sold for a year-on-year increase of 3.5 per cent.

Vietnam’s national football team have earned total prize money of around VND12 billion (US$522,000) for their excellent performance at the ongoing AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

The Vietnam Football Federation is planning to invite European giants Liverpool to play in Hanoi this summer.

The Government’s mechanism to calculate the compensation rate for residents whose land it takes for public purposes is "detached" from the market value instead of relying on it, leading to prolonged opposition and grievances from those affected.

The Vietnam Pangasius Association (VPA) will this year focus on improving quality and expanding export markets, its chairman has said.

Vietnam’s stock market is set for unpredictable short-term movement, as both local indexes witnessed a choppy trading week last week, on low liquidity and weak cash flow.

Twenty Thai firms from the refrigeration, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical components, and electronics industries on Friday took part in a business matching event in HCM City to find local partners.

Universities need to train nearly 15,000 navigating officers and other shipping personnel by 2020 to address a shortage of human resources in the maritime industry, according to Dr Nguyen Duc Ca of the Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences.