Gold prices fall in the market After soaring to an eight-year high yesterday, domestic gold prices fell between VNĐ1.3 million and VNĐ2 million (US$56-86) per tael on February 25.

Mekong Delta grapples with erosion, subsidence

Erosion and subsidence along canals, rivers and coasts have been severe in many areas in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta and local authorities are struggling to raise funds for works to prevent them.

BIDV puts auto firm Vinaxuki up for sale to recover bad debt The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) has announced plans to put secured assets of Xuân Kiên Auto JSC (Vinaxuki) up for auction to recover the VNĐ1.26 trillion (US$55 million) non-performing loan.

2 State-owned banks allowed to increase charter capital The Government has decided to allow Vietcombank and Vietinbank to increase their charter capital by VNĐ10 trillion (US$434.8 million) in the first quarter of this year, but it has not said how they could do so.

HCM City considers evening transport of goods to reduce traffic jams

HCM City authorities are considering switching transport of goods from day to night because of traffic congestion during the day.

Việt Nam to enhance agriculture risk management capacity Việt Nam needs to enhance its agricultural risk management capacity, experts told a workshop in HCM City. 

Central city cancels Fireworks Festival due to coronavirus fears The central city has decided to cancel the 2020 Đà Nẵng International Fireworks Festival to prevent the novel coronavirus, or Covid-19, spreading in the region.

Hà Tĩnh cage fish farmers restore production Cage fish farmers in Thạch Hà District’s Thạch Sơn Commune are investing to restore production after suffering heavy losses in early September 2019 due to heavy rains and flood that caused dozens of tonnes of fish to die.

Crop restructuring will help farmers avoid losses

Nguyễn Hữu Thiện, an independent expert on Ecology in the Mekong Delta talks to the newspaper Nhân Dân (The People) on causes leading to the problem of severe salty-water intrusion in the Mekong delta region and measures on how to cope with it, in both short and long terms

ASEAN, China enhance cooperation in response to COVID-19

A special meeting of the ASEAN Coordinating Council (ACC) and a special conference of ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers on cooperation in responding to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) took place in Vientiane, Laos, on Thursday.