The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoIT) is urging local footwear makers to further invest in support industries instead of depending excessively on imported raw materials and losing out on profits and competitiveness.

Though the bad debt ratio of the banking system has been reported to drop to below 3% of its outstanding loans, how to deal with the amount of bad debt stuck at the Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) is still a troublesome job.

The Vietnamese were swept away from the Yonex Sunrise Vietnam Open Badminton Tournament on July 22 in HCM City.

Drought and saline intrusion this year caused a drop in the cultivation area and yield of sugarcane in the 2015-16 season, but farmers nationwide reaped profits from their harvests, though sugar quality was still considered insufficient.

The national futsal team convened yesterday in HCM City to prepare for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup from September 10 to October 1 in Colombia.

Museum officials, artists and experts announced after attending a private meeting on July 19 that 17 paintings of  collector Vu Xuan Chung displayed at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum appeared to be inauthentic and signed by artists who had not painted the works. 

Host athletes Vu Thi Trang and Nguyen Thuy Linh booked their berths in the second round of the Yonex Sunrise Vietnam Open badminton tournament.

One of the most anticipated EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals of the summer will be held on July 23 at Hanoi Creative City.

The 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games will feature 38 sports and 405 events but it will not include vovinam (Vietnam’s traditional martial art), according to a recent meeting of the hosts Malaysia and the SEA Games Federation (SEAGF).

A boat-shaped tomb made from a tree trunk dating back to the 13th century has just been discovered at a construction site in a mountainous area in the central province of Ha Tinh.