With domestic phone brand Vsmart stopping production, Chinese smartphones grabbed a 50% market share in the second quarter of this year in Vietnam, VnExpress cited Counterpoint Research. Of five prominent Chinese brands, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo accounted for a 45% share, according to the global research firm that specialized

     A newly-built National Assembly building funded by Vietnam is to be handed over to Laos as Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc is paying an official friendship visit to Laos on Monday and Tuesday. The building, a special gift from the Party, State and people of Vietnam to the

 Hanoi will prepare 8,000 beds for COVID-19 patients at medium, serious and critical conditions, getting the city ready for a scenario of 40,000 infections. In a document issued on Sunday, Hanoi Chairman Chu Ngoc Anh asked for the engagement of the whole political system and relevant agencies in implementing the plan which

Taliban fighters overran three provincial capitals including the strategic northeastern city of Kunduz on Sunday, local officials said, as the insurgents intensified pressure on the north and threatened other cities. The insurgents have captured dozens of districts and border crossings in recent months and put pressure on several provincial capitals,

– President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, his wife Tran Nguyet Thu and a high-ranking delegation of the Party and State of Vietnam left Hanoi on Monday for an official friendship visit to Laos. The visit is being made at the invitation of Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and