Vietnam – Japan Economic Relations

As part of the first APEC Senior Officials Meeting and related meetings, the SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation – Committee of the Whole convened its meeting in Nha Trang on February 28.

 An ecosystem-based climate change adaptation project sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Building and Nuclear Safety in Vietnam made strides in 2016.

Lecturer Nguyen Kim Phi Phung of the Nature University’s Chemistry Faculty has won the International Kovalevskaia Award.

 The Bad Boys Blue and singer Sandra from Germany will stage a one-night show “Bad Boys Blue & Sandra Live in Concert” at the National Convention Center in Hanoi on March 11.

 One of the most popular of all ballets, “Swan Lake” composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky will be presented at Hanoi Opera House on March 18-19.

 Music lovers will have an opportunity to enjoy masterpieces of Tchaikovsky through a concert named "A night of Tchaikovsky" which is scheduled to take place at Hanoi Opera House on March 9-10.

 The 2nd ‘Don Ca Tai Tu’ or Southern Amateur Music Festival 2017 will be held in Binh Duong Province in April, according the provincial People’s Committee.

 The National Traffic Safety Committee yesterday said that in February, the country has 1,763 traffic accidents killing 826 people and injuring 1,482 people.

 Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has assigned the Ministry of Transport to improve two projects of building North-South Expressway.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCMC authorities are considering working with Facebook on a policy which would control revenue from sales on the social network.

 Up to two thirds of domestic financial leasing companies operate at a loss and are riddled with inefficiencies.

 Ton Poh Fund, an open-end fund managed by Thailand's Ton Poh Capital, has paid $11 million to purchase 1.5 million shares of Mobile World Investment Corp (MWG), a major mobile phone distributor in Viet Nam.

 P&G, Yamaha and more have to take responsibility for “having their advertisement shown on illegal videos” on Youtube, according to local authorities.

Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited, the operator of Dung Quat Refinery, has set its pre-tax profit target at $73 million for 2017, which is a lot lower than its actual pre-tax profit of $219.45 million in 2016.

 Vietjet stock ended the morning trading session at VND108,000 ($4.74), 20 per cent higher than the initial price of VND90,000 ($3.95).

 Many foreign visitors have complained about the dead goats being sold along the road leading to the Trang An Tourism Complex in Ninh Binh Province. 

 Tired of the noise, a man in the central province of Quang Ngai has opted to live alone in the deep forest for the past 20 years.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade has pointed out the causes for the USD90m losses at a fertiliser plant in Ninh Binh Province that forced it to halt operation four years after being put into use.

The farmers in Dak Nong Province will have to bear huge losses as thousands of pepper trees suddenly died because of disease just before they were harvested.