Savun Sim looked dejected as a large plastic vacuum hose sucked 2,600 pounds of wild Gulf of Mexico shrimp from his trawler’s ice hold. With dock prices at their lowest since 2009, pressured by a flood of cheap imports from shrimp farms across Asia, Sim said he would barely cover …

A torrential rain began late Tuesday afternoon in Ho Chi Minh City and lasted well into the night, submerging many areas beneath up to over one meter of water, blocking traffic and causing numerous vehicles to break down. The prolonged rain, which turned a lot of streets into ‘rivers,’ was …

Editor’s note: Ambassador of Japan to Vietnam Fukada Hiroshi sent this written interview article exclusively to VnExpress on the occasion of a visit by Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to Japan next week. * What is the significance of General Secretary Trong’s visit to Japan? At the invitation …

Singing groups from across the country will gather to celebrate the fifth National Festival of the Traditional Then Singing of Tay, Nung and Thai ethnic groups, which will take place in the northern province of Tuyen Quang from September 24 to 26. The festival aims to introduce and promote then …

Ho Chi Minh City’s streets and markets are especially colorful these days with lanterns and moon cake boxes laid out for the Mid-Autumn Festival, or Trung Thu, which is just around the corner. There are various theories about the origin of the festival. One says it came from China just …

Tourism officials have not minced their words when speaking about top destinations in central Vietnam. Ha Van Sieu, deputy director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), said nearly all coastal towns in the region, from Da Nang to Nha Trang and Phan Thiet, are almost the same, without …

Novak Djokovic vanquished long-time rival Roger Federer 6-4 5-7 6-4 6-4 to win the U.S. Open on Sunday to cap one of greatest grand slam seasons of all-time. The victory gave Djokovic three of the year’s four grand slam titles with a loss to Stan Wawrinka in the French Open …

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has given the green light to a merger between Sacombank and unlisted Phuong Nam (Southern) Bank, it said in an announcement sent to local lenders on Monday. The merged bank is still named Sacombank and the merger will enable the partly private lender to …

Competent agencies should review their precautionary work to better respond to natural disasters, which have killed 98 people, and caused damage totaling nearly US$243 million in Vietnam in the past eight months, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has said. The vice premier offered the advice while speaking during an …

The defense ties between Vietnam and India have been increasingly growing after the two countries signed a joint vision statement on bilateral defense relations in May 2015, a senior Vietnamese official has said. Vietnamese Minister of Defense General Phung Quang Thanh offered the comment while receiving Indian Air Force Chief …