Việt Nam News

A book company in Hà Nội drew a lot of attention last weekend with a marketing ploy that the country was seeing for the first time.

 Television channels in the country have met the audience’s craving appetite for celebrity scandals with a number of shows delving into the private lives of famous people.

Over the few past weeks, linguist Bùi Hiền has become an internet sensation, not just in Việt Nam, after his paper suggesting a new way of recording the Vietnamese language rocked the worldwide web, touching the nerves of almost all the people who speak Vietnamese.

The Hà Nội People’s Council yesterday approved a People’s Committee proposal to increase street and pavement use fees as well as parking fees for cars and motorbikes.

As interest in beauty treatments has grown, shoddy spas have cropped up seeking quick profits, resulting in operating table deaths and post-surgery complications that leave scars and deformities.

As a consumer and a mother, I am always willing to pay extra for higher quality goods, particularly when it comes to food, because the health of my family, especially children, is involved.

Developing high-tech agriculture is an important task and also the inevitable trend of Việt Nam’s socio-economic development strategies in the context of deeper international integration

A proposal by a National Assembly deputy that some civil servants and other State cadres be allowed to work from home, saving office overheads, has generated a lively, timely debate.  

While many young people who grow up in a big city are sometimes upset at living in old-style condos, many aged people enjoy their lives there.

Your favourite actress “reveals” that she is using a skincare product or a lipstick that makes her “confident and beautiful anytime”. A famous mother shares on her Facebook page that she finds a mosquito repellent very useful to protect her children, particularly when a dengue fever epidemic is raging in the city. Additionally, they are generous enough to share the links where you can easily buy the products. What would you do?

Việt Nam has had its fair share of beauty contest controversies over the years, but the event’s popularity has never waned. But the latest controversy is different. It has to do with its timing in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster.

All Vietnamese businesses, not just famous brands, should draw a lesson from the Khaisilk scandal and avoid commiting frauds that will hurt the entire community of entrepreneurs.

The entertainment world is familiar with cases of many celebrated actors turning singers. Venturing into a whole new field means you have to take a risk and accept the consequences.

Local authorities are planning to install automatic car wash stations at gateways to the inner city as they believe the surge in number of vehicles is a major contributor to air pollution in the capital city.

After dinner, Nguyễn Minh Trang, 30, allows her five-year-old daughter, Daisy (her nickname), uses her tablets in 20 minutes to learn English.

An incident recorded at an eatery for low-income people in District 1 of HCM City last week has raised discussion on the attitudes towards becoming independent of Vietnamese university students.

As the equitisation process of the Việt Nam Feature Film Studio (VFS) came to a conclusion earlier this year, it was a bitter moment when filmmakers and fans of the studio learned that the VFS’s brand value was determined at zero Vietnamese dong.

We might need to increase our population’s growth rate, but the long-standing gender discrimination and disparity, in all its insidious forms, needs to be tackled firmly.