The Ministry of Finance has urged measures to improve the efficiency of State capital at the Construction and Infrastructure Development Corporation (Licogi).

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has recently asked the Ministry of Transport to approve its detail planning adjustments for Phu Quoc and Pleiku Airport.

 The Singaporean fund Ardolis Investment Pte Ltd has raised its ownership in the consumer staple firm Masan Group Corporation to 5.67 per cent with more than 65.9 million shares from the previous 4.47 per cent.

 After an image of a homemade plastic screen installed in a taxi was posted on social media, the Viet Nam Register confirmed that such modifications were legal. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has chaired a meeting to review the preparation for the second summit between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the US in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi. 

 The tra fish industry needs to focus on intensive farming this year to increase efficiency and sustainable development.

Thousands of tourists have paid a visit to Hoi An to release lanterns into the Hoai River to pray for happiness, peace, and luck in the year ahead for the Nguyen Tieu festival, which celebrates the first full moon of the new lunar year.

 The day before US President Donald Trump met North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore last year, one phrase was googled in America more than two million times.

 Hanoi will see a series of activities take place on March 9 in response to the annual Earth Hour, a scheme to increase awareness on environmental issues, according to the municipal People’s Committee.

Hoang Thuy, runner-up of Miss Universe Vietnam 2017, will serve as a speaker for the ASEAN Youth Engagement Summit 2019 (AYES) that is currently being held in the Philippines.

 A Government decree that sought to remove difficulties and legal barriers for rice businesses to boost their exports, which took effect last October, has not impacted rice exports as much as expected.

 The Embassy of Japan in Hanoi has announced that students who want to study in Japan must include a high school graduation certificate in their visa application starting from March 1.

 Experts shared experience in marine spatial planning and ocean governance at the second annual conference of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in the Asia-Pacific, which opened in Hanoi on February 18.

 Creating links between laboratories and the business community is of great importance, representatives of labs and the HCM City Department of Science and Technology heard at a meeting held in the city recently.

 The central city is planning to allocate 300ha for the development of a horse racing track and farm with total investment of US$200 million.

 The slow listing of post-equitisation firms, including State-owned enterprises (SOEs), may make Vietnamese firms less attractive regarding a lack of corporate transparency and government agencies managing those firms must be blamed for the problem.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade will send a working delegation to the northern province of Thai Binh in March, in charge of collaborating with stakeholders to handle remaining shortcomings regarding the Thai Binh 2 coal-fired power project.

 Than Quảng Ninh have been tipped as dark horses for the upcoming national premier league.

 Young shuttler Nguyễn Hải Đăng of Việt Nam stepped into the second round of the Beer Lao International Series yesterday.

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