Shinsegae Corporation, the parent firm of Emart hypermarket system, soon to be opened in Vietnam, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Vietnam Children’s Protection Fund to establish the first Hope Toy Library in HCM City.

Vietnam expects to increase fresh fruit exports to the US and Australia next year following the US government's approval of irradiation as an effective quarantine system.

Provisional funds for bad debts whittled away significant profits of the Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank, during the first half of this year.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the building of a US$1 billion "ecological" complex on Vu Yen Island in northern Hai Phong City.

Vietnam's top tennis star, Ly Hoang Nam, has been eliminated from the 2015 Wimbledon Junior Championship's first round in London.

Vietnam plans to build the country's first Centre for Underwater Archaeological Research in Hoi An this year, Nguyen Giang Hai, the head of Vietnam's Archaeology Institute, said on July 5.

The privatisation of businesses in the construction sector has been accelerated to complete the target for equitising its 19 firms nationwide.

As of June 20, Japan had invested US$37.7 billion in 2,661 projects in Vietnam, statistics from the Foreign Investment Department show.

Demand for labourers in the first six months of the year rose 34% over the same period last year, according to an online conference held recently by Vietnamworks, the top employment and recruitment website in Vietnam.

It took less than 20 years for Vietnam, which had been saddled with an embargo by the US, to turn that country into a leading economic partner.