Representatives from Fairventures Worldwide FVW gGmbH and the University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart (Hft Stuggart) joined Vietnamese construction experts to introduce green building strategies at a workshop in Hanoi last week.

Nguyen Thi Mai Hung has become the fifth Vietnamese woman to be awarded the International Women's Grandmaster (IWGM) title.

The Vietnam Assets Management Company (VAMC) plans to purchase between VND70 trillion (US$3.17 billion) and VND100 trillion (US$4.74 billion) worth of non-performing loans (NPL) this year, according to a source from Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper.

More than 900,000 high school students nationwide are sitting graduation exams, starting on June 2.

The domestic real estate market has become warmer as property prices have dropped sharply to suit the budget of the average buyer.

The ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development and Public Security have been told to clamp down on illegal and dangerous farm pesticides smuggled across the border with China, ordered by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

The fifth annual “Green Consumption Campaign”, which seeks to improve people’s awareness of environment protection, was launched on May 28 in HCM City.

The central city has begun a tourism promotion programme at the Korea World Trade Fair in the Coex Exhibition Centre, Seoul, the Republic of Korea, the city’s tourism promotion centre said on May 28.

Claude Balland, from France, has spent 14 years in Vietnam collecting old sidecars, French-manufactured vintage buses and cars that have been lost in the country from the late 1990s.

New findings from a survey conducted by global office provider Regus indicates the number of Vietnamnese companies seeking business opportunities in the domestic market is 260% higher than those looking overseas.