Investor flight from build-operate-transfer (BOT) traffic projects is triggering worries that the Government must rethink how to promote private investments in BOT infrastructure projects, experts said.

 More organizations are offering new financial products and services that are changing the form and nature of the market and are shaping the future of financial inclusion.

 Vietnam’s packaging industry continues to expand, driven by growing demand for food and beverages processed and packaged in a modern way, according to experts.

Vietnam’s total export and import value in the fortnight of March reached US$16.6 billion, of which export revenue made up $7.81 billion, the General Department of Customs reported.

 Vietnamese athletes will take part in the 10th Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, which will be held in Doha, Qatar, on March 22.

 The Saigon Heat will meet the league-leading Hong Kong Eastern Long Lions in the penultimate match of the qualifying round of the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) tonight.

 Viet Nam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam moved up five spots to No 630 in the latest men’s singles world rankings released by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

Coco Rocha was certainly dressed to impress on March 21, when she arrived in Ho Chi Minh City headed for some local shows in a sleeveless high fashion baby blue dress.

 Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is expanding a program to remove counterfeit goods from its website this spring as part of a broader push to assure brand owners that the online retailer is an ally rather than a threat.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City plans to open special street-food areas in District 1 as part of a pilot programme to move vendors to designated pavements, among other plans to improve the liveability of the city.

 Wastewater treatment is an urgent issue of public concern, especially in the face of climate change and development of industrial parks and industrial clusters, authorities have said. 

 The A/H7N9 and A/H5N1 avian influenza viruses may enter Vietnam through poultry smuggled from China and Cambodia and wild birds, an official from the Ministry of Heath has said.

 The south central coastal province of Phu Yen will host the Miss Friendship of ASEAN this year, as announced by the organising board at a press conference on March 21.

  TH Group of Vietnam and Israel’s MedicDan Ltd. and Sraromedic R.N International on March 21 inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in a project to develop a high technology medical and health care complex in Hanoi.

 Holcim Vietnam was renamed Siam City Cement Vietnam Co Ltd  after being acquired by Thailand’s Siam Cement City Public Co Ltd (SCCC).

 Customs officers in the northern port city of Hai Phong on March 21 seized a container suspected of containing Khat leaves.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien on Monday urged inspectors from the central to grassroots levels to ensure that fines are handed out for violations of healthcare service regulations.

 Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan has called for US businesses’ engagement in providing technology and cooperating in building criteria for smart cities as well as local planning.

 The eighth session of the 14th National Assembly’s Standing Committee concluded on March 21 after working on a Government’s decree on rescue activities of the fire-fighting force.

The official visit to Vietnam by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is expected to deepen and broaden the Strategic Partnership between Singapore and Vietnam.