Eleven investors, including those from the Republic of Korea and China, wish to invest in the My Thuan-Can Tho expressway in the Mekong Delta region.

 The emergence of e-commerce websites such as Lazada, Tiki, and Shopee has led to online shopping becoming popular among Vietnamese customers over recent years, in particular young customers who prefer buying and selling products on social networks.

 A camera trap has caught the large-antlered muntjac, one of the rarest and most threatened mammal species of Southeast Asia, for the first time in the central province of Quang Nam.

 Foreign and local firms have expressed ambitions to develop ultra-clear glass projects to meet the increasing demand for high-end glass for construction and solar panels.

The e-commerce community predicted that 2018 would be the year of fashion products in Vietnam, noting that busy office workers were buying more clothes from online shops.

 The US Department of Commerce (DoC) has decided to levy import tax on steel produced in Vietnam using Chinese-origin substrate.

 The Vietnamese beer market is considered a promised land for both foreign and local brewers due to the massive consumption. However, in reality, it is a playground with strict competition.

The World Press Photo Exhibition will be organized by the Embassy of the Netherlands in cooperation with the Vietnam Journalists’ Association from June 16 to July 6 in Hanoi.

 Two nude models have accused a famous body painter and architect in HCM City of attempted sexual assault.

 The Sugar and Sugarcane Association has objected to the proposal by the Ministry of Finance to levy a special consumption tax of 10% on sugary soft drinks.

 Up to 40 people who are members of the central city of Danang’s a high-quality workforce training project have resigned from municipal state agencies.

 Parents in Hanoi are in a hurry to find babysitters for their children in the coming school summer holiday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Peer to Peer Lending (P2P), under which lenders and borrowers connect via apps, has been developing rapidly in Vietnam.

The Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) will begin selling its 1.1 billion shares coded TCB on the HCMC Stock Exchange (HOSE) on June 4 with a starting price of $5.62 per share.

 The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Center (VNCERT) hosted the 2018 ASEAN-Japan information security drill, which took place in Hanoi, central Da Nang city and Ho Chi Minh City on May 23. 

 Vietnamese businesses lack a proper strategy to build brands, a survey by British brand consultant Mibrand has found.

 Vietnam’s economy could grow by 7.02 percent in 2018 under a high growth rate scenario, according to the National Center for Socio-Economic Information and Forecast (NCIF).

 Shipments of seafood, excluding fish, to many markets, especially the European Union (EU), showed signs of reduction recently, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.

 Authorities have rejected an investor’s proposal to build a chemical factory near the UNESCO World Heritage Site Ha Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

 Vietnam’s foreign reserves has increased by 130 percent to nearly 64 billion USD in the past two-and-a-half years, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.