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Vietnam's retail sales, service revenues surge in 11 months

Vietnam'stotalgoodsretailsalesandconsumerservicerevenueswerenearly3,601trillionVietnamesedong(over159.3billionU.S.dollars)inthefirst11monthsofthisyear,up10.7per

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Vietnam suffers more explosions, fires in first 5 months

​A total of 1,552 fires and explosions broke out across Vietnam in the first five months of this year, killing 34 people and injuring 153 others, while causing property losses of some 723 billion Vietnamese dong (32.1 million U.S. dollars), the country's Fire Prevention and Fight Department said Monday.