Ho CHi Minh City's expansion highlights challenge of state reform

Economy Foreign investment grows but megacity struggles to clear land for projects In the first eight months of 2025, Ho Chi Minh City attracted $6.8 billion in foreign investment, up 58%, year on year, compared with 27% growth for Vietnam as a...

Vietnam and UK discuss broader cooperation

Vietnam and UK discuss broader cooperation Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang met with UK Trade Envoy Matt Western on September 15 in London to discuss advanced finance and trade ties. Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang and UK Trade Envoy MP...

Vietnam to train 10,000 CEOs to boost startup management

Vietnam to train 10,000 CEOs to boost startup management Vietnam will launch a CEO training programme by 2026, offering practical courses to help young business founders overcome management challenges and build sustainable, growth-oriented...

Vietnam growth to slow to 6.5% in 2025, lose pace further in 2026: IMF

Though Vietnam’s economy rebounded strongly in 2024 and early 2025, the outlook is constrained by high global uncertainty on trade and economic policies, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).Economic growth is projected to slow to...

Vietnam ranks 44th in Global Innovation Index 2025

Daren Tang, Director General of WIPO, at the launch of the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 Report. (Photo: thoibaonganhang.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam continues to rank 44th among the 139 economies in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025,...

Vietnam’s international financial centre vision confronts reality of legal and market gaps

Its financial ecosystem is still seen as fledging and shallow, while its stock market is still classified as a frontier market by MSCI [HO CHI MINH CITY] As Vietnam accelerates efforts to establish an international financial centre (IFC) with an...

Ministry stresses Vietnam’s commitment to foreign investors at London conference

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance held an investment promotion conference in London on September 16, underscoring the country’s strong commitment to deepening economic and financial ties with the UK. Opening the event, Finance Minister...

VPBank issues Vietnam’s first international sustainable bonds

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) has become the first bank in Vietnam to successfully issue 300 million USD in sustainable bonds on the international market. This milestone marks an important step in bringing...

Top News Headlines In Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore & Vietnam: Sept 17, 2025

INDONESIA 1. ARMY SPECIAL FORCES SERGEANT, CORPORAL TIED TO KILLING OF STATE BANK OFFICIAL -- JAKARTA GLOBE Two Indonesian army soldiers have been implicated in the fatal abduction of a state bank manager, alongside 13 civilian suspects, the...

World : Top News Headlines In Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore & Vietnam: Sept 17, 2025

INDONESIA 1. ARMY SPECIAL FORCES SERGEANT, CORPORAL TIED TO KILLING OF STATE BANK OFFICIAL -- JAKARTA GLOBE Two Indonesian army soldiers have been implicated in the fatal abduction of a state bank manager, alongside 13 civilian suspects, the...

Brazil expects Mercosur-UAE trade deal by end of 2025, minister says

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil expects South America's Mercosur bloc and the United Arab Emirates to finalize a trade agreement by the end of the year, Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said on Tuesday. He also said that Mercosur expects to advance...

Feenstra helps secure military honors for Franklin County veterans’ family

Rep. Randy Feenstra, U.S. Representative for Iowa's 4th District | Official U.S. House headshotRep. Randy Feenstra, U.S. Representative for Iowa's 4th District | Official U.S. House headshot U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) announced that his...

Minnesota House deadlocked after Democrats win special election to fill seat of slain lawmaker

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democrats will hold onto the legislative seat once held by Melissa Hortman, the former Democratic Minnesota House speaker...

Another View: Human decency must outlast political violence

The assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk is a horrific act. It is time this country reckons with the consequences of its polarized, weaponized rhetoric. We may deeply disagree with much of what Kirk said or stood for, but nothing...

Lật Mặt movie to hit international theatres

HCM CITY – Lật mặt 8: Vòng Tay Nắng (Face off 8: Embrace of Light), a drama by film producer and director Lý Hải, will be released in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia starting on September 18, according to the producer. Screenings are...

China-Vietnam relations of comrades and brothers underlined in three high-level meetings

The special relations of comrades as well as brothers between China and Vietnam, as Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh once described it in a poem, were highlighted by three recent overlapping top level exchanges between the two socialist...

Translation: International Students in China Complain, “Quark AI Has Forgotten Us!”

Some international students in China have taken to social media platform RedNote (Xiaohongshu) to complain about being excluded from obtaining free educational accounts for Quark AI, an LLM tool widely used by their Chinese university classmates....

Ocean isn’t free-fire zone for US military drug interdiction: Analysis

To some proponents, using the military is a justified means of mitigating a drug epidemic that killed 80,000 Americans last year. And if military force is to be used, sinking drug vessels is a particularly enticing option: Better to drop bombs in...

President of UB to step down in July 2026

Satish Tripathi, who has served as president of the University at Buffalo since April 2011, announced today that he will be stepping down from the role in July 2026. Tripathi is the longest-serving president of UB since the school joined the SUNY...

A contract to kill: How a law student was accused of an affair, stalked and murdered

Published: 17 Sep. 2025, 07:01 Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI Ha Ji-hye, a law student at Ewha Womans University who was killed in March 2002, smiles in an undated photo. [SCREEN CAPTURE] [KOREAN CRIME FILES #6] Behind the glitz...