Thailand’s SCG Group wants entire stake of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) to own 100 percent of the Long Son Petrochemicals (LSP) Complex in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

 The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE), one of Vietnam’s two main bourses, continues halting stock trading services on January 24 to test-run the market after technical breakdown occurred two days ago.

Car imports to Vietnam have dropped sharply in anticipation of Decree 116 which sets strict regulations for locally assembled automobile businesses as well as importers.

Dr Tran Ngoc Dung, head of the Institute for Environment Friendly Technology, an arm of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, has received the 2017 L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for women in science.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education & Training (MOET) and PhD training establishments have tightened control over PhD student enrollment, but experts say this is not enough to ensure quality. 

Together with Dak Lak and Dong Nai, Nghe An is one of three localities in Vietnam with the highest wild elephant populations. However, their natural habitat is shrinking.

 The issues Vietnam had to tackle in 2017 largely continue into 2018.

Many Vietnamese agricultural products like chilly, coriandrum sativum and arrow root starch are on sale on Amazon website at prices which are dozen or even hundred times higher than in Vietnam.

 The Government has set a target of achieving a GDP growth rate of 6.7% and consumer price index (CPI) of 4% for 2018.

 Danish brewer Carlsberg A/S must pay market price if it wants to acquire a majority holding in the Hanoi Beer Alcohol Beverage Corp. (Habeco), Vietnam’s second-largest brewer, according to Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.

 The Royal International Corporation (RIC) which is running the only casino in UNESCO World Heritage site Ha Long Bay has just reported huge losses in 2017, blaming a drop in Chinese gamblers visiting Ha Long.

 Nguyen Van Phuong won his first round match at the ITF Copa Barranquilla Capital de Vida-Claro tennis tournament in Colombia on Tuesday morning. 

 Phan Ke An, one of the leading artists of Viet Nam renowned for lacquer paintings and sketches of President Hồ Chí Minh, passed away in Hanoi on Sunday. He was 95.

 A fishing crew of 11 were rescued after their boat engine broke down at sea 120 nautical miles off the Hoàng Sa (Paracel) Islands of Việt Nam on Tuesday.

 The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has proposed to the Ministry of Transport to halt the collection of fee from drivers at airports.

ENV has revealed that 16 international and social organisations in wildlife protection
signed a letter calling on Vietnamese law enforcement agencies to  handle  Mau Chien, the suspected mastermind of a trans-national rhino horn trafficking ring.

 The equitisation of the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) in 2018 was discussed at a meeting of the Ministry of Information and Communications in Hanoi on January 23.

 The Vietnamese Embassy in Chile said that it had contacted the Chilean Foreign Minister on January 22 requesting coordination to verify media reports on shark fins being dried on the roof of the Vietnamese Trade Office in Chile.

 US Secretary of Defence James Mattis will pay an official visit to Vietnam from January 24-25 at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart General Ngo Xuan Lich. 

 Right after Vietnam obtained an impressive victory against Qatar to advance to the final of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc congratulated coach Park Hang-seo and the Vietnamese team.