Thanh Le General Import Export Trading Corporation (Thanh Le) has been permitted to put a 45.55 per cent stake up for sale for strategic investors.

Vietnam’s sole oil refinery operator, Binh Son Refining, plans to sell 4 per cent of its shares in an initial public offering on November 7 and another 49 per cent to strategic investors next year, its Chairman said on August 10.

 State Audit of Vietnam has announced a decision to audit the results of an enterprise valuation of Vinalines and examine other financial matters within the next 30 days before officially announcing the valuation.

 Hanoi will introduce iParking at an additional 118 parking lots and nine streets in four districts from September 1 if approval is forthcoming from the Hanoi People’s Committee.

 Vietnam’s swimming team will participate in the 29th SEA Games with their largest force ever, including 25 members, targeting to surpass the impressive results achieved at the previous Games in Singapore.

 The European Commissioner in charge of food safety has called for a meeting of ministers and national regulatory agencies to discuss a widespread European contamination scare, 

 Elephants were pressed into service to rescue hundreds of foreign tourists trapped in a Nepal jungle safari park, officials said on Monday, as the death toll from flash floods and landslides 

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Pepper Association (VPA) has warned that Chinese businesses have made moves to corner the domestic pepper market.

A hundred of Vietnamese singers, actors, MCs and models recorded a song together to cheer on the Viet Nam National Football Team at the region’s biggest sports event, the 29th SEA Games in Malaysia

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will send seven young golfers, of average age 18, to take part in the upcoming Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Malaysia.

The third open mathematics festival was launched yesterday at the Ha Noi University of Technology by the Viet Nam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics.

The General Department of Preventive Medicine has instructed health officials in provinces and cities nationwide to co-operate with education departments to strengthen cleanliness at schools to prevent outbreaks

Vietnamese coach Nguyen Huu Thang said that the Viet Nam national football team was determined to win the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games title this year.

 Fencer Vu Thanh An has been chosen to hold the national flag for the Vietnam sport delegation at the opening ceremony of the 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Malaysia on August 19.

 A National Assembly resolution on nonperforming loans takes effect tomorrow with lawmakers hopeful it will help resolve much of the remaining bad debts held by commercial banks and real estate projects across the nation.

 Agricultural products exported to China now account for 50 per cent of total border trade flow between the two countries, signifying greater approval from Chinese consumers, officials say.

 Viet Nam’s business climate is anticipated to improve in the second half of 2017, but economic growth will be at 6.5 per cent, falling short of the Government’s target.

 The current technology era is creating both opportunities and challenges for businesses in the process of enhancing and managing resources, delegates told a seminar in HCM City on Friday.

 The occupancy rate at operational industrial parks (IPs) nationwide has hit 73 per cent, according to the Economic Zone Management Department under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The Promotion Fund of Vietnamese Football Talents FC (PVF) won the National U15 Football Championship after beating Viettel 2-0 in the final match at Tay Ninh Stadium on Saturday.