Many tourists complain that they feel bored as Hanoi doesn’t have many attractive activities to enjoy at night. Travel firms admit they find it difficult to schedule night activities for foreign travelers.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has cut some operating interest rates, but has not intervened in ceiling interest rates of 6-month or longer-term deposits, so there are interest rate gaps among commercial banks.

A collection of Vietnamese poetry translated into English to honour the beauty of the Vietnamese language has been published including translations spanning centuries of Vietnamese poems.

Contrary to predictions, Vietnamese beverage manufacturers have not been ousted by foreign giants from the home market, but have been performing well and competing equally with them.

Drinking cold beer on summer afternoons is a habit of many Hanoians. The Australian Prime Minister, when visiting the capital city recently, joined a group of draft beer drinkers and shouted "one, two, three, cheers!" before tasting the popular beer.

Many VietNamNet readers have emailed us, expressing their concern about the increasingly high number of recent merger and acquisition (M&A) deals either being made or still under negotiation.

Because of the short length of service and age of retirement, many employees are choosing a lump-sum social insurance withdrawal, and are then beginning to look for a new job where they will pay social insurance premiums for a second round.

Tram Be, a once-famous tycoon with a takeover deal of Sacombank, has returned to the business world by joining the board of directors at Trieu An Hospital.

Experts have called on to immediately amend the personal income tax (PIT) law which is no longer suited to new circumstances with goods prices increasing sharply.

The traditional craft of check scarf weaving was recognised as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

When visiting the lush Golden Camellia Park in Nho Quan District in Ninh Bình, it is hard to imagine that a few years ago the valley was abandoned with few crops surviving, the local soil deemed too rough to do anything worthwhile.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung says that the portion of the digital economy to GDP by the end of 2023 may reach over 17 percent, and with good solutions to stimulate the economy, the figure may reach 25 percent by 2025.

Nguyen Thuy Hai, nickednamed ’Catwoman’, has found happiness in her life alongside the cats she cares for as if they were her own children.

A ginseng farm in Quảng Nam Province is aiming for the herb to go global while bringing jobs to the local ethnic communities.

Experts discuss preferential policies and favourable treatment to be offered in attracting film crews and promoting Vietnam as a movie destination

It may be a surprise that big tech firms which have a lot of data to develop artificial intelligence (AI), such as FPT, Viettel and VNG, have not launched any new AI chatbot products, which is in contrast to Facebook and Google.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is building a national strategy on attracting talents for important posts by 2030 with a vision towards 2045, which is expected to be submitted to the government for issuance in 2023.

Unlike their grandparents and parents, youth nowadays who live in the technology era have to face multiple stressors in their childhood.

In the last five years, Vietnam has been heavily relying on foreign sugar supply. But the state’s efforts and international performance are bringing a golden opportunity to Vietnam to regain its home market.

There are about 25,000 foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) in Vietnam, a small figure compared with the 800,000 operational Vietnamese enterprises. But FIEs are the major players in most business fields.