With its dependency on imported materials and export markets' stringent norms on the origin and legality of products, Vietnam's wood processing sector is facing high market risks, said an expert.

Hanoi authorities have suspended work at Nhon - Hanoi Station metro project, pending an investigation into two accidents that occurred at construction sites.

The National Assembly Standing Committee on May 13 gave qualified approval to several reform proposals made by the nation's top prosecutorial agency, the Vietnam Supreme People's Procuracy.

Thirty-two teams have gathered for the final round of the 2015 Vietnam Robot (Robocon) contest that opened on May 12 in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Can Tho.

April was a positive month for Vietnamese auto sales, though carmakers have claimed difficulties conducting business in the country's unstable and undevel-oped automobile industry.

The chairwoman of the HCM City's People's Council said the city would build more kindergartens for children of workers at industrial parks and export processing zones.

The transport ministry has submitted the equitisation plan of the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) to the Prime Minister for approval.

Selected prints from novels by award winning German graphic artist and author Reinhard Kleist are on display at an exhibition at the Goethe Instiute in Hanoi which runs until the end of the month.

Two Vietnamese films, Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories and Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass, will be shown at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Although tax revenues from crude oil declined following plunging world prices, domestic tax collections rose in the first four months of 2015, the General Department of Taxation's report showed.