Before its Mon Hue chain had to shut down, Huy Vietnam was praised as the pioneer in developing food & beverage (F&B) chains, which had successfully called for tens of millions of dollars worth of foreign investment.

One day after announcing the information affirming that all the 39 victims in the incident of the container truck in Essex, the UK are Vietnamese, the Ministry of Public Security yesterday announced their identities.

When Que Ngoc Hai received the captain’s armband for the Vietnam national team in January doubts were raised about his abilities and temperament.

Indeed, Vietnam’s securities markets have come a long way since World Trade Organization accession in 2007 – or have they?

The warning about risks of funding BOT (build-operate-transfer) projects given two years ago is becoming a reality.

The 154 trade probes against Vietnamese goods are initiated in 19 countries and territories, including the US with 30 cases, Turkey with 21, India with 20 and the EU with 14, among others.

National brand Vietnam Value has risen in value by US$12 billion over last year to US$247 billion, according to the UK's brand valuation consultancy Brand Finance.

 Attracting international investment flows into state-owned enterprises by increasing foreign ownership limits will bring equal treatment between domestic and overseas investors. 

The move reflected Pyn Elite Fund’s view of Vietnam’s positive economic outlook and the robust profit growth of listed companies, as well as its belief in the continuous modernization of Vietnamese financial market.

The stylised images of four holy beasts in imperial arts, namely dragon, unicorn, turtle and phoenix, will appear on all media products at the Hue Festival 2020 as the identity for the event, organisers have announced.

The Hanoi government is also considering building a number of monorail lines to better exploit the entire urban railway system in the capital city.

Sky Mavis, the parent company of blockchain-based game Axie Infinity, closed their funding round at US$1.5 million led by Animoca Brands with participation from Hashed, Pangea Blockchain Fund, ConsenSys, and 500 Startups.

The US attaches special importance to developing cooperative ties with Vietnam in different fields, visiting US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross told Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh.

Opportunities will slip through Vietnamese firms’ hands if a sandbox is not developed soon, NextTech chairman Nguyen Hoa Binh said at a conference on November 7.

Vietnamese social networks were set to have 90 million users by the end of 2020, the communications minister said on Friday, as the Government kept pushing hard to break the foreign monopoly in Vietnam.

Vietnam will be a leg of Secretary Esper's tour to South Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines.
US Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper will visit Vietnam in the coming days, according to the US Department of Defense.

The annual Viet Nam Information Security Day will be organised on November 21, the Viet Nam Information Security Association and the HCM City Department of Information and Communication have announced.

Seventy-three per cent of businesses from Hong Kong (China) expressed their intention to open additional factories in ASEAN countries, with Viet Nam coming out on top as their first pick.

Local authorities have been ordered to instruct fishing boats and other vessels in the East Sea to take shelter as Nakri, the sixth storm to strike Vietnam this year, is strengthening.

Chinese actor Jackie Chan’s planned visit to Vietnam to join Operation Smile Vietnam’s 30th anniversary event has sparked anger on Vietnamese social media due to his support of the Chinese nine-dash line in illustrations of the East Sea.