South Korea’s conglomerate SK Group, through its investment arm SK South East Asia Investment, has decided to invest US$1 billion acquiring shares of Vietnam’s leading privately run conglomerate Vingroup, according to Bloomberg. 

 Hanoi's Department of Tourism on March 22 organized a ceremony at the Temple of Literature to launch the volunteer team to support Thang Long – Hanoi tourism in 2019.

 Minister of Information and Communication (MIC) Nguyen Manh Hung highlighted the role of 5G – the next generation of wireless technology – as the pillar of the digital economy at the ASEAN Conference on 5G in Hanoi on March 21.

 A school in the remote area of Thanh Hoa Province is still seeing a high number of drop-outs and teenage mothers among students from low-income families.

 A group of Canadian visitors have called on people to gather litter on a beach in Binh Dinh Province’s Quy Nhon City.

 The annual Danang International Fireworks Festival will be cut in half from two months to one this year according to local authorities.

 Another cold snap is forecasted to hit the northern region from March 23.

 Vietnamese start-up Momo was recently ranked as the 10th most well-funded tech start-up in the Asia-Pacific region by global information services firm CBInsights.

 Vietnamese businesses have been urged to embrace digital transformation to remain competitive and enhance their value.

 A Vietnamese start-up has built a multi-connection blockchain system which allows information sharing and exchange between ministries and businesses worldwide.

 Governor of the State Bank of Viet Nam Le Minh Hung issued a document early this week to ask co-operation from local authorities in expanding credit, part of efforts to prevent loan sharking.

 Liquidity in the interbank market has been abundant, helping the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) resume the issuance of treasury bills after five months to withdraw Vietnamese dong from the banking system.

 Total assets of credit institutions and foreign banks in Vietnam by the end of last year surged by 10.62 per cent against the beginning of the year to more than VND11 quadrillion (US$472.1 billion).

 Japanese companies want Viet Nam to further streamline inspection procedures for imports, especially of foods.

VietNamNet Bridge - The buyers in recent big M&A deals in the real estate markets in Hanoi and HCMC were Vietnamese, not foreign investors, as seen previously.

Nguyen Hoang Phuong, Deputy Director of the Technology Centre of Viet Nam Social Security talks to Việt Nam News on the strides the centre has made in technology adoption to achieve efficiency and better delivery of public services.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam urged healthcare facilities nationwide to step up preventive healthcare services and ensure adequate vaccines to prevent the spread of epidemics such as measles and dengue fever.

Vietnam’s agricultural sector last year showed the most development of any of the past seven years and agricultural exports reached US$40.5 billion, helping the country confirm its position as an important exporter.

Vietnam is boosting the growing of speciality coffee in an effort to raise coffee quality and the country’s coffee export value.

The Ministry of Health’s Department of Medical Examination and Treatment and UNICEF are carrying out surveys on patients’ satisfaction at obstetrics and paediatrics facilities as part of a national programme on the management ...