Dương Văn Công, a worker in Hosiden Việt Nam Co., Ltd, has lived with four members of his family in a 20sq.m rented room for nearly a decade in Nếnh Township, in the northern province of Bắc Giang.

The average Vietnamese worker now earns VNĐ6.5 million (US$278) a month, a rise of almost 20 per cent since 2020.

While countless studies have been conducted on alcohol consumption by the general populations of Việt Nam and other countries around the world, data-driven facts about the drinking habits of Việt Nam’s expat community in particular are harder to come by.

While HCM City is on track to economic recovery, high inflation and elevated global uncertainty could hinder progress in the second half, said the chairwoman of the People’s Council.

A knowledge contest on Vietnam’s seas and islands and a virtual reality exhibition with the theme of “To quoc ben bo song” (Fatherland by the waves) was launched in Hanoi on July 6.

Over 50 works by modern Vietnamese masters from the early generation of École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine (Indochina School of Fine Arts) will be showcased at Sotheby’s first exhibition in Việt Nam - Timeless Souls: Beyond the Voyage – Hồn Xưa Bến Lạ.

The number of unemployed people in Vietnam stood at nearly 1.1 million in the first half of 2022, down 47,600 year-on-year, said an official from the General Statistics Office (GSO) at a press conference on in Hanoi on July 6.

The 16th-tenure People’s Council of Hà Nội on July 6 adopted a resolution on key tasks for socio-economic development and budget collection and spending in the six last months of 2022, as part of its ongoing 7th session.  

Violence against women and children is never acceptable and has to be made visible and reported in protection of the group, emphasised UNICEF Chief Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers.

Mass fish deaths have occurred over the past few days in Hà Nội's lakes, polluting surrounding areas. 

With high rewards on offer, human trafficking is big business, but often it’s the people at the bottom end of this criminal network left to pay the price.

Policemen in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on July 5 handed over a wanted criminal to the Chinese side at the Lao Cai International Border Gate.

Vietnamese tech firms should expand cooperation in research and development (R&D) and technology transfer to be able to make electronics, information technology and telecommunications (ITC) products branded “Made in Vietnam”, experts said at a conference on Tuesday in HCM City. 

A man narrowly escaped death after being saved by a rail worker at a level crossing on Wednesday night in the southern province of Đồng Nai.

Four young Vietnamese singers are presenting a YouTube show, expressing their passion for music and youthful enthusiasm and evoking beautiful memories.

Artist Vương Văn Thạo has been internationally recorgnised thanks to his works Thân Thế Và Những Giấc Mơ (Body and Dreams) and Hóa Thạch Sống (Living Fossil) sculpture series in the year the 2000s. Singapore Art Museum purchased the entire work Living Fossil for its permanent display. 

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bạc Liêu is carrying out a plan to turn the province into the cải lương (reformed opera) centre of the region.

Vietnam earned USD 27.88 billion from agro-forestry-fishery exports in the first half of this year (H1), up 14 percent year-on-year despite the difficulties and impact of the world economic environment, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Economic expert Nguyen Bich Lam talks to Vietnam News Agency about Vietnam’s economic growth prospects in 2023 and ways to boost growth in the face of challenges created by supply chain breaks and geopolitical instability.