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Viet Nam crush Lebanon 7-0 at AFC women’s champs

 Việt Nam’s U16 team crushed Lebanon 7-0 in the third match of their Group F qualifying round for the 2019 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s U16 Championship in Bangladesh on Friday. 

Magnificent things of Ha Noi in Le Van Xuong’s artworks

 The people and landscape of Hà Nội from the 1950-60 period are reflected at an exhibition of late artist Lê Văn Xương (1917-88).

Nam enters quarter-finals of Spain F28 Futures

 Việt Nam’s top tennis player Lý Hoàng Nam is through to the men’s singles quarter-finals at the Spain F28 Futures tournament in Madrid.

Investors eye land plots in HCMC’s neighboring areas

VietNamNet Bridge - Can Gio district in HCMC and Nhon Trach in Dong Nai province have become new destinations for many investors, thanks to infrastructure development in the areas.


Real estate credit under strict control

 With the issuance of Resolution No.01/NQ-CP, the Vietnamese government has affirmed that it will strictly control credit for potentially risky sectors, especially real estate, beginning this year.

New FiT puts new wind in sails of renewables

 Vu Chi Mai, senior project officer of the ‘Support to the Up-Scaling of Wind Power in Vietnam’ project under the GIZ Energy Support Programme, shared her views about the positive development.

Putting ODA to work

 New or altered strategies are needed for Vietnam to fully leverage the vital support provided by Japanese ODA.

UN General Assembly hold minute’s silence to remember President Tran Dai Quang

 The General Assembly of the United Nations held a minute’s silence to remember Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, who passed away on September 21 in Hanoi.

President Tran Dai Quang’s death receives wide coverage on world media

 International media worldwide have published news on the death of President of Vietnam Tran Dai Quang and highlighted his contribution to Vietnam’s development. 

More state-owned economic groups want to divest from huge projects

Because of the difficulties in arranging investment capital, many state-owned economic groups want to withdraw from large projects. 

Investors keep faith despite trade war

 As emerging markets around the world catch headwinds from the global trade war, investors still bank on Vietnam’s stable macro-economics and growing stock market.

Foreign investors eye industrial and logistics property

Vietnam's industrial and logistics property sector has seen a wave of foreign investors in recent years hoping to seize the opportunities from the country becoming a new regional manufacturing hub.

FIEs as the “trail-blazers” of Vietnam’s stellar growth

Nguyen Chi Dung, Minister of Planning and Investment, said that foreign-invested enterprises can be described as “trail-blazers” of Vietnam’s socioeconomic development.

Japanese expats at ease in Vietnam

 Most Japanese expats in Vietnam are quick to settle in and find a lot to like.

Monopoly worries IT businesses

 The Investment and Trade Promotion Center of HCM City and the city’s Department of Information and Communications on September 18 jointly organized a discussion session between ICT businesses and the municipal authorities.

Behind the glee of no tuition fee

 It comes as good news for many parents in HCMC when the municipal government says all children at public schools will be exempted from tuition fees up to the ninth grade, effective from this school year. 

Hue’s five iconic garden houses get facelift

 More than 3.6 billion VND (nearly 155,180 USD) has been spent to restore five “nha ruong” (old garden houses built with wooden beams and pillars) in Phuoc Tich ancient village, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Vietnam sets to lift foreign ownership cap in aviation industry

 The government has planned to increase foreign shareholding in Vietnamese airlines in a move to seek more investment to meet the country’s rapidly growing air transport demand.

Vietnam to complete eastern section of north-south expressway project by 2021

 The transport ministry has completed the feasible study of the project`s eastern section with length of 654 kilometers and investment capital of VND118.71 trillion (US$5.07 billion).

IFC seeks to unload US$350-million stake in Vietnam’s major bank - report

 IFC`s 8% stake in VietinBank is now valued at nearly US$350 million.