A draft regulation put forward by the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) that would limit the foreign ownership rate in the payment intermediary service sector to 49 percent was discussed at a workshop in Hanoi on December 12.

Vietnam should act fast to switch to the circular economy, heard a workshop on promoting the no-carbon circular economy held in Hanoi on November 12.

Regulators are working to finalise the sandbox for healthy market development, accelerating economic growth that will help Vietnamese fintech companies bloom.

Over 50 experts from research institutes and universities in the Czech Republic gathered at a recent workshop in Prague on resolving disputes in the East Sea.

As a country highly exposed to droughts, floods and landslides, Vietnam needs more active prevention instead of just a passive response.

VietNamNet Bridge - More small production workshops with an area of less than 500 square meters and sufficient facilities are being built to satisfy high demand.

VietNamNet Bridge - Businesses are complaining that higher land rentals imposed by HCM City authorities will push them against the wall.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – A workshop has been held in Hue to mark the 100-year anniversary of the first publication of the Bulletin des Amis du Vieux Hue (Bulletin of the Friends of Ancient Hue).

Vietnam should prepare to take its case against China to the international court of justice, even though it has moved its Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig out of the country's waters, the two-day conference held in HCM City heard on Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many opinions were heard at the culture ministry's workshop to review legal documents on art performance management, mostly concentrating on limitations discovered during the first year of enforcing the regulations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of production workshops have been relocated out of the inner city under a program initiated by the HCM City local authorities.

A lot of foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) in HCM City now seek to rent ready made production workshops built up by the industrial zone development companies instead of setting up production workshops themselves on the leased land.

Dramatisations of historical times and figures need to be made very carefully by cultural creators, according to participants at a workshop about the boundaries between historical fact and fiction held over the weekend in the capital.

Energy usage contributes up to 35 per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions in Viet Nam, Dr Nguyen Thi Hien Thuan from the Viet Nam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment told an ASEAN+3 workshop