Sipping juice in a small café in Ha Noi in early June, Willem Schaftenaar relaxes before his flight home to the Netherlands. Previously, he was busy in Ban Don Village in Dak Lak Province’s Buon Don District

VietNamNet Bridge - Tens of trillions of dong have been poured into bank shares as investors hope prices will continue to rise thanks to reasonable policies on resolving bad debts.

 Under current Vietnamese regulations, persons on exit or in transit after completing the exit or transit procedures, passengers onboard international flights departing from Vietnam and persons awaiting exit may purchase duty-free goods.

Forsaking stable jobs in the big city, three university grads return to their hometown to make a quality rice-noodle product that benefits the village as well as consumers.

 Viet Nam grabbed two golds on the last day of the Thailand Open Tracks and Field Championship in Bangkok on June 15. 

 Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan met with visiting Chairman of the Cuban National Assembly Esteban Lazo Hernandez on June 16.

 More than 300,000 copies of books and 3,000 student and office accessories are on display at Summer Book Festival 2017, which opened on Friday (June 16) at the HCM City Exhibition House in District 1.

 Business leaders and experts discussed digital solutions to involve and integrate small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into the global market, at a conference in HCM City on Thursday.

The third session of the 14th National Assembly (NA) spent the entire Friday morning discussing the (revised) draft Law on Public Debt Management, for the first time.

Since entering the e-commerce market with the site AeonEshop.com, Aeon has quickly gained the attention of customers thanks to its unique selling point compared to other e-commerce websites – high quality Japanese goods. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked Dak Lak Province’s People’s Committee to investigate illegal logging in Ea Sup District.

 Quang Trung Software City in HCM City said it had been ranked third out of eight software parks in Asia evaluated by KPMG.

VietNamNet Bridge - Sun Group’s five-star Sun Premier Village Kem Beach Resort in the south of Vietnam’s largest island of Phu Quoc had an impressive launch in Hanoi and HCM City last week.

 Vietnam and Indonesia boast huge potentials in energy collaboration, Indonesian Ambassador to Vietnam Ibnu Hadi highlighted at a conference held in Hanoi on June 16.

 Vietnam has not taken full advantage of foreign direct investment (FDI) while its private enterprises have failed to connect with the global production chain, heard the Midterm Vietnam Business Forum (VBF) 2017 held in Hanoi on June 16.

Residents of Huong Khe Town in Ha Tinh Province have blocked garbage trucks’ access to the local landfill for the past 10 days, to protest the use of the overflowing dump.

 President Tran Dai Quang presented the President’s decisions to appoint chiefs of Vietnamese representative offices abroad for the 2017-2020 tenure at a ceremony in Hanoi on June 16. 

 Chairman of Hong Kong’s Summerfield Company Limited, Francois Da Pan Shih, expressed his interest in investing in the US$2 billion Happy Land entertainment complex in the Mekong Delta province of Long An.

Pham Trong Nhan, a National Assembly (NA) Deputy said the NA plans to approve a law on supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs), noting that many merger & acquisition (M&A) deals in the retail market have been made recently.

Vietnam House Restaurant will reopen its doors early next month to serve Vietnamese cuisine with a modern twist at the heart of HCM City.