Universities in Vietnam graduate thousands of pharmacists a year, but the country has outdated manufacturing technology that could produce brandname drugs.

TikToker Tran Phuong Dung, the only Vietnamese in Southeast Asia to be honored by TikTok for her high sales and livestream sessions with thousands of viewers, says her livestream at first attracted only five viewers.

85-year-old Bùi Lương is a frequent runner at Thanh Xuân Park and often stops many people, familiar or strange, to show them the basics of the sport.

85-year-old painter Nguyen Trong Nguyen’s mural paintings are beautifying the walls of many homes and the local lanes in general.

Tran Duc Trung  is travelling to 63 provinces and cities across the country to experience life, discover new places as well as spread the message of traffic safety.

Leading British travel publisher Rough Guides has revealed a list of the eight oddest things visitors should see during their trip to Vietnam.

Bach Ma National Park, recognised as an ASEAN Heritage Park in 2022, holds the world’s only breeding area for the saola, a critically endangered species. The park is also home to Vietnam's second bear rescue centre.

Climate change and natural and man-made disasters are seriously threatening water security, as Vietnam depends on water sources outside its territory.

VietNamNet spoke with Pham Xuan Hoe, a respected economist, about money supply and the urgent solutions needed to ensure the liquidity of the economy.

Nearly 100 paintings by the late artist Tran Phuc Duyen will be presented before the public after 25 years of being kept in Switzerland.

Established in January 2021, Phu Quoc island city in the southern province of Kien Giang is expected to become an international center of tourism, resorts, trade and technology by 2040.

Large tourism centers in Vietnam have piloted plans to develop a night-time economy, but they have only focused on food and, at times, entertainment services. Vietnam still lacks attractive evening products for foreign travelers.

India, which provides 40 percent of global rice exports, is considering prohibiting the sale of rice abroad. The move may affect the global market and lead to an increase in Vietnam’s rice exports.

Despite an impressive increase in the number of domestic and foreign travelers in the first six months, accommodations are still in distress, and many 4-5-star hotels have been put up for sale.

Growing 1 million hectares of high-quality paddy rice in Mekong Delta is an important project which is still on paper, but a number of countries have said they want to place orders.

The national economy is expected to improve in the second half of the year thanks to a series of government support policies including a loosened monetary policy and expansionary fiscal policy.

Setting up representative offices in target markets is considered the "trump card" in attracting travelers. But Vietnam has allocated only modest budgets for tourism promotion and has been slow in opening representative offices.

Vietnam once had a semiconductor manufacturing factory in 1979, which was named Z181. The factory provided semiconductor devices to the Eastern European market.

Cocobay Da Nang, the super project in Da Nang, and a multi-billion dong golf course in Bac Giang were the leading news items last week.

The child who spent his childhood in a slum full of social evils, thieves and prostitutes is now the CEO of a hi-tech company that manufactures drones.