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Cheating and overexploitation of workers are among the myriad of negative impacts FDI has had on Vietnam. Keep reading ...

Vietnamese and Japanese engineers are building a satellite that will aid Vietnam’s disaster prevention efforts when launched in a few years. They have begun preparatory steps in Japan to produce LOTUSat-1 as part of the Natural Disaster and Climate Change Prevention project undertaken by the ...

Vietnam has opened its first ever tissue bank for medical diagnosis, education and research​ in Viet Duc Hospital. The Tissue Bank, licensed by the Ministry of Health, would receive, store and transport tissue samples.Keep reading ...

Vietnam will get selective with new FDI projects, rejecting those that don’t benefit the country, a senior official says. Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung said even though FDI projects have made remarkable contributions to the Vietnamese economy, there were several drawbacks to ...

Vietnam’s trade as a percentage of GDP topped 200 percent last year, highest for any country with over 50 million people. This data, compiled by the World Bank, shows that the country is reaping the benefits of an open economy at a time that protectionism ...

The Party’s Central Committee has nominated General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to be the country’s next president. The committee voted on Wednesday to introduce Trong as a candidate for the head of state post to Vietnam’s legislative National Assembly, which will be in sesssion between ...

A group of 15 protesters will be jailed for attacking police officers and vandalizing a fire police station last June. A court in the south central province of Binh Thuan Wednesday sentenced Pham Thanh, 31, to four years and six months in prison for disrupting ...

The National Assembly’s Standing Committee decided at a meeting Thursday to hike the environment tax on fuel from next year. Starting January 1 the tax on petrol will increase from VND3,000 (13 cents) per liter to VND4,000 (17 cents), and on diesel from VND1,500 to ...

Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh has taken over as Vietnam’s first female Head of State. She will be Acting President until the National Assembly officially elects a new President.Keep reading ...

Vietnam’s poverty rate is dropping, but there is a high rate of people falling back into poverty, a government minister has said. Speaking at a meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee Monday, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung said there ...