Vietnam will play against Uzbekistan in the final of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship being held in Changzhou, China.

 President Tran Dai Quang told visiting Russian Minister of Defence Sergey Shoyu on January 23 that cooperation in defence and military technology continues playing an important role in Vietnam-Russia relations.

 The high-profile trial of Trinh Xuan Thanh, former Chairman of the PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC), and his accomplices, ended on January 22 after two weeks of sitting.

VietNamNet Bridge - The oil & gas sector once had the highest export turnover of any industry, but that ended in 2009.

 The HCM Stock Exchange is switched off for maintenance today following its crash during the At-the-Closing (ATC) period on Monday.

  The Government needs to enlarge the scale of the market and lure more State-owned enterprises to list shares through speeding up their equitisation, according to Luu Trung Thai, Vice Chairman of the Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank.

 Commercial banks are optimistic about the foreign exchange market in 2018, noting that the market would be stable with the Vietnamese dong devaluing slightly by some 0.5-1 percentage points to VND22,710 to VND22,950.

Viet Nam’s shrimp industry will become a key economic sector with sustainable development that is environmentally friendly and can withstand the challenges of climate change.

 Viet Nam’s cashew industry has targeted 300,000 tonnes of cashew exports at a value of US$3 billion this year, a year-on-year reduction of 50,000 tonnes in volume and $500 million in value.

 The HCM City Tax Department plans to continue to collect taxes from online businesses that use Facebook and other social media sites.

Organisers collected VNĐ600 million (US$27,000) from a charity golf tournament organised at the Golf King’s Island in Dong Mo, Son Tay Town, in Hanoi last week. 

 More than 30 paintings, photos and sculptures by 11 Dutch artists were displayed at an exhibition hosted by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Hanoi.

The list of SOEs put under control of the ‘super committee’, shows that the government wants control in some key business fields – energy, natural resources, infrastructure and agricultural land.

 The revision to the Law on Higher Education should create more favourable conditions for private institutions in tertiary education, officials have said.

Vietnam is the focus of India’s Act East policy, affirmed Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Parvathaneni Harish in an interview with VNA on threshold of PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s visit to attend the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit.

 The 26th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-26), which took place in Hanoi from January 18 to 21, was declared a success with its agenda fulfilled and the Vietnamese National Assembly’s dynamism on display.

 The Government and people of Vietnam will make greater efforts to accelerate the cooperation with the Government, parliament and people of Mongolia, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 The Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology under the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) was presented with an institutional ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) quality certificate on January 22.

The Vietnam Sugar and Sugarcane Association has proposed to PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc not to allow an extension for temporary sugar imports for re-export as the sweet industry is struggling with high stockpiles and slumping prices.

 Vietnamese shares soared in the first trading session of the week as investor confidence remained strong on expectations for good earnings reports.