Electronic filing of intellectual property applications and its efforts to join the Hague Agreement were the two experiences Việt Nam chose to talk about at the 45^th meeting of the Intellectual Property Experts Group (IPEG) which opened in HCM City on Tuesday.

A Vietnamese expert addressed an APEC event yesterday on one of the region and world’s most significant demographic developments: rapidly aging populations.

HCM City earned more than VNĐ14.6 billion (US$663,000) from advertisements on buses last year, according to the city’s Public Transport Management and Operation Centre.

The transport department of the port city of Hải Phòng's decision to gather a hundred coach buses at one station has met with opposition from the owners of the vehicles.

 Developing sustainable partnership between the State and civil society organisations (CSOs) is an inevitable requirement. Việt Nam has tremendous potential to develop the partnership but has not fully exploited it, experts said at a conference on Tuesday.

Thirty-seven new landslide points have been discovered on the Hạ Long-Vân Đồn Expressway, the northern province of Quảng Ninh, local authorities reported.

Health Department of central province of Thanh Hóa on Tuesday fined a private clinic VNĐ60 million (US$ 2,640) for illegally offering healthcare services and medicines.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình on Monday called on continued close supervision on the operation of the Taiwan-invested steel company – Formosa Hà Tĩnh –to avoid any violations.

Food security has become an increasing concern for many APEC economies who are facing multiple challenges from the impacts of climate change, which threatens sustainable agriculture and food security.