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2017 has been another record breaking year for tourism as foreign visitors to Vietnam surged 29.1 percent over the previous year, reaching an all-time high of 12.9 million, according to the General Statistics Office. However, robbery, petty crimes, traffic accidents and service quality continue to ...

Cyber attacks including the rise of ransomware cost Vietnamese users VND12.3 trillion or more than $542.8 million last year, according to a report from top online security firm BKAV.Keep reading ...

Advertisements of soft drinks and other ‘unhealthy products’ are also being blacklisted, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Soft drinks will be prohibited from all school canteens across Vietnam in an effort to improve children’s health and height.Keep reading ...

Facebook, the world’s biggest social network and the most popular in Vietnam, has acted upon a request by Vietnamese authorities to remove 159 anti-government accounts, a senior government official has said.Keep reading ...

Residents in Ho Chi Minh City who continue to consume groundwater face severe health problems, a new study has found. The study by the city’s Preventive Health Department, based on surveys conducted last July, found that 62 percent of groundwater samples in the city were ...

Vietnam’s labor ministry is seeking public opinion on a new rule that would require foreign workers to pay social insurance, the ministry recently said.Keep reading ...

Vietnamese lawmakers have approved a 7 percent pay rise for workers in the public sector, an area critics say is prone to corruption due to low official salaries. The basic wage in the sector will be raised to VND1.39 million ($61.20) a month from July ...

A police investigation launched into a dramatic land dispute that took place last April involving local authorities and residents in Hanoi has prompted one lawmaker to speak out, calling for authorities to handle the matter with care. “We should look at it as a crisis ...

According to the World Bank’s Doing Business 2018 report, Vietnam climbed 14 places from from the 82nd to the 68th place out of 190 economies.Keep reading  ...

The highest pension in Vietnam belongs to a man in HCMC who retires from 2015. () This person has been in social insurance for 23 years and 3 months and in the years before his retirement , he paid insurance of VND 18 million per ...