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  Experts say more should be done to eliminate scam taxis after inspections led to the suspension of eleven firms in HCMC and Hanoi An imitation taxi passes foreign tourists near HCMC’s Ben Thanh Market. Experts...

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    Several economists are saying the government should not commit itself to any gross domestic product target, adding economic growth cannot be a forced process. Vietnam should just follow other countries and release regular economic forecasts instead, they suggest. Vu Quang...

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  The owner of Vietnam’s first private company after doi moi says entrepreneurs need to know their society in and out – politically and historically – not just economically Nguyen Tran Bat, chairman and general director of Invest Consult Group. ...

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  Unprecedented move against Chinese contractor not easy, but ‘wise’, local firm says Vietnam’s state-owned Construction Corporation No.1 has decided to end its contract with a Chinese supplier due to poor performance at a major hydropower project in the Central Highlands....

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An aerial handout photograph from an unmanned airplane taken on March 20 shows the No. 3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture in Japan. Shaken to the core by the havoc wreaked by the tsunami in March, in particular the massive nuclear disaster it spawned, Japan...

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  There’s not much in the way of good news on the economic front. Clothes on sale at a ­­­shop in Hanoi last week. Vietnam is fighting to beat back raging inflation. Despite repeated revisions of growth and inflation targets, the former downwards and the latter upwards, they are...

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  A panel of foreign and local experts have called for improved transparency and accountability in Vietnam’s gas and mining sector A copper mine run by the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries Group in the north-western province of Lao Cai. An anti-corruption dialogue on May...

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  A smoker in September 23 Park in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The government is assessing public opinion on a draft law that would significantly limit smoking in public places. Public health officials say a ban on smoking in public places would be a ‘historic’...

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   At age 69, Thai Ngoc, who claims not to have slept in 38 years, takes advantage of his wakefulness to help his wife with housework. It is the middle of the night in Quang Nam Province. A bright moon illuminates a field in Trung Ha Village, where a lone farmer works his field. He...

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Visitors at an international tourism exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City last year Cambodians who can afford to travel are finding more and more reasons to visit Vietnam, especially for medical purposes. However, despite the figures showing significant jumps in the number of visitors from the neighboring nation, most local travel...

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