Taking up wrestling by chance, Vu Thi Hang has stuck to the sport meant for men all her life and has made her name at the Rio Olympics this summer.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong said that it was necessary to identify shrimp as a national strategic product to boost farming, enhance quality and build a globally-recognised Vietnamese shrimp brand.

International Master Tran Tuan Minh tied with Harsha Bhrathakoti of India in the seventh round at the ongoing World Junior (U-20) Chess Championship in India.

A variety of moon cakes have hit the market with more than a month to go for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Entrepreneurs are hailing a national plan to reduce corporate income tax for small- and medium-sized enterprises from 20% to 17% starting next year.

Trade value between Vietnam and the European Union (EU) in the first half of this year has gained a year-on-year growth of 9.05% to US$21.2 billion.

Vietnam’s foreign exchange reserves, inclusive of gold, hit a record high of US$38 billion in mid-June, according to HSBC’s Macro-Prospect Report.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment is developing a plan on restructuring the economy by 2020 aiming to renovate the growth model towards improving efficiency and competitiveness of the economy.

Vietnam must build a creative and sustainable eco-system for the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to take part in the international IoT supply chain and achieve a turnover of US$10 billion by 2020, a technology insider has said.

Dang Vu Minh,15, and Dao Nhat Minh, two secondary school students in Hanoi, have won a gold medal for their research on the red-shanked douc langur (Pygathryx nemaeus).