Society

A VND800 billion (USD34 million) dormitory project in the northern province of Ninh Binh has been left idle for many years.

With the expectation that interest rates will continue to fall in the coming quarters while corporate profits begin to recover, brokerages forecast that the Vietnamese stock market will be uplifted in the second half of 2023.

At least 15 people were killed in floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains that battered northern India, with New Delhi receiving the most rainfall in decades, reports and officials said Sunday.

The musical “Shrek” from the famous Broadway stage will be performed for the first time at the Hanoi Opera House.

The Ho Guom Opera of the Ministry of Public Security was unveiled in the presence of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a ceremony in Hanoi on July 9.

The domestic real estate market is forecast to recover in the second half of the year thanks to policies issued so far in 2023.

HCM City authorities are intensifying the fight against vendors in the Nguyen Hue Walking Street area in District 1.

The northern mountainous province of Son La attracted 2.8 million tourists in the first half of this year, bringing VND3 trillion (USD127.65 million) in revenue, over double last year.

Audio guides have been installed at two museums in HCM City to help visitors learn about Vietnamese culture and history.

The Mekong Delta will receive more than US$2.5 billion in official development assistance (ODA) loans to implement 16 sustainable development projects in response to climate change, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Although Vietnamese rice has been exported to 150 countries and territories, markets for the product are mainly Asian countries and thus need to be diversified, according to experts.

The number of Lao tourist arrivals to Vietnam soared in the first half of the year, with a growth rate of 117%, which is the third-highest rate among nations having visitors to Vietnam, following Cambodia (338%) and India (236%).

Farmers in the central province of Nghe An are worried about their rice dying in the fields due to prolonged droughts.

HCM City has planned to launch five new boat routes, including three to the neighbouring provinces of Binh Duong, Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Tien Giang.

Indian police said Friday they had arrested three men over a triple-train collision that killed nearly 300 people last month, one of the worst rail accidents in the country's history.

Nearly 3,000 businesses and factories in residential areas of the southern province of Binh Duong are going to be relocated into industrial zones and clusters in the locality from 2024-2030.

HCM City’s first metro line project has implemented 95.39 percent of the work so far and will be completed by the end of this year before being put into operation next year.

A ten-year-old girl in the southern province of Bac Lieu is taking care of her disabled father after her mother left them.