The petrol retail price saw its highest surge so far this year on Saturday, raising concerns over unpredictable impacts to the economy and the possible increase of goods prices during the upcoming Tết (Lunar New Year) Holiday, experts said.

A book on the 58-year-long career of late theatre actress Năm Sa Đéc, a guru of cải lương (reformed opera) and hát bội or tuồng (classical drama), has been  released in HCM City.

Under a Government plan for a Cross-Border Economic Zone in Long An Province, Kiến Tường Town has seen new factories, vocational training opportunities and commercial centres set up in the last few years. Additional foreign investment is expected to provide even more jobs for locals. Bồ Xuân Hiệp reports.

Many well-known consumer brands of the past are making a comeback in Việt Nam indicating a new-found confidence on the part of local companies to take on multinational rivals.

A delegation of Israeli business executives visiting the Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre to explore co-operation opportunities in many sectors has said Israeli technologies can be applied anywhere in the world.

The tuồng (classical drama) play Võ Đông Sơ-Bạch Thu Hà (Love Story of Võ Đông Sơ and Bạch Thu Hà), a production by scriptwriter Mộc Quán, will be restaged in a new version 89 years after its first release.

Young cyclist Nguyễn Huỳnh Kỳ of HCM City’s youth crew won the Bến Tre Television Cycling Tournament’s fourth stage from Đồng Nai Province to Bình Phước Province over 113km yesterday.

There has yet to be a definitive conclusion on the cause of mass fish deaths in the central region, but nonetheless, local residents whose diets rely on seafood and fishermen living along the coast from Hà Tĩnh to Thừa Thiên-Huế have been suffering.

Representative from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development yesterday told Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng that in three to five days, they would have the conclusion for the reason of the massive death of fish along coastal provinces in the past two weeks.

A dead whale found on a beach in central Thừa Thiên-Huế yesterday morning has provided clear evidence of an environmental incident taking place in the coastal stretch of four central provinces.