News

Vietnam’s tourism industry is booming and is fast becoming the driving force behind economic growth – but it also faces calls for reform to keep up with high standards. The “smoke-free” industry has witnessed spectacular success in the past few years with higher growth rate ...

Most of Vietnamese people have been eating too much salt, nearly double the World Health Organisation (WHO)-recommend level of 5g per day, heard a workshop in Hanoi on March 27.Keep reading ...

Việt Nam posted year-on-year GDP growth of 7.38 per cent in the first quarter of 2018, the best first-quarter performance in the last ten years, backed by growth in manufacturing and agriculture.Keep reading ...

The Ministry of Justice must continue to review business conditions and eliminate overlapping and unnecessary regulations, said Minister and Chairman of the Office of the Government Mai Tien Dung during a meeting between the Government’s working group and the ministry on March 26.Keep reading ...

Industry 4.0 poses a challenge to the Vietnamese labour force so significant that the only way to meet it is to impose reforms across the board, starting with education and training programmes, experts agreed at a seminar yesterday in Hà Nội.Keep reading ...

The Ministry of Health plans to replace the five-in-one Quinvaxem combination vaccine with other types of vaccines for infants beginning this June.Keep reading ...

Disabled people face a world of difficulty – especially young people who suffer.[] There are more 98,790 people with disabilities in Hà Nội and nearly 50,000 in HCM City, according to the statistics of Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.Keep reading   ...

Việt Nam’s industry will contribute 40 per cent to the national GDP by 2030, according to a newly issued resolution. Under Resolution 23-NQ/TW to develop the national industry until 2030, with a vision up to 2045, issued recently by the Politburo, the processing and manufacturing industries ...

Vietnam aims to generate half of its economic output from the private sector within two years, its prime minister said, giving a clear indication of the communist-ruled country’s determination to make private enterprise the main engine of its economy.Keep reading ...

Online intellectual property infringements related to industrial design are worrying investors, including those from the US, forcing state agencies to set forth an adequate legal mechanism to handle the situation.Keep reading ...