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$5.2 billion drug market attracts more foreign investors

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese drug market, valued at $5.2 billion, is attracting more foreign investors and multinationals.

Trinh retires with third Best Female Player award

At Vietnam’s Golden Ball Awards, goalkeeper Dang Thi Kieu Trinh won Best Female Player for the third time, capping the 20-year career of a woman considered one of the best goalkeepers in Vietnamese football history. 

Vietnam's top ten medical events of 2017 released

 The Ministry of Health has announced the top ten events of Vietnam’s medical sector in 2017 as follows:

VN-Index breaks 1,000 point level

 The VN-Index broke the 1,000-point threshold on January 3, closing up 0.99 percent  at 1,005.67 points, despite increasing profit-taking pressure towards the end of the session.

Storm Bolaven weakens before landing in Vietnam

 Storm Bolaven has weakened into a tropical pressure system after moving into the waters west of Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago on early January 4, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting. 

Ly Hoang Nam still among world’s top 500 tennis players

 Vietnamese tennis ace Ly Hoang Nam is still inside the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP)’s top 500 tennis players in early 2018.

More artefacts belonging to Oc Eo culture found

 About 20,000 artefacts were unearthed in Linh Son pagoda, which is located within the Oc Eo archaeological site in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, between August and December 2017.

Police commence criminal proceedings against deadly explosion in Bac Ninh

The investigation police agency of Bac Ninh police department has decided to start criminal proceedings against the case of a recent explosion that killed at least two children and injured nine people on January 3.

VN tourism makes development record in 2017

 2017 is considered a successful year for the tourism sector, with 13 million international tourists arriving in Vietnam, up by three million against the previous year.

UK Minister: 2018 to witness positive impacts in UK-Vietnam relations

 In recent years cooperation between Vietnam and the United Kingdom has flourished. 

Traffic accidents kill 8,279 people in 2017

 As many as 20,080 traffic accidents were reported in 2017, killing 8,279 people and injuring 17,040 others, according to the National Committee for Traffic Safety. 

Mobile World finishes acquisition of Tran Anh Digital

 The Gioi Di Dong (Mobile World) Co. Ltd. on January 3 officially finished the acquisition of Dien May Tran Anh (Tran Anh Digital), giving it the ownership of an over-90-percent stake at Tran Anh.

APG submarine cable to be fixed on January 6-7

The Asia-Pacific Getaway (APG) submarine cable from Vietnam to Singapore, which was crashed on December 23, 2017, will be fixed from January 6-7, according to an Internet services supplier in Vietnam.

Biggest ever drug case in Vietnam uncovered

Police in Dien Bien has announced that its Drug Crime Investigation Office on January 3 arrested two persons transporting 489 bricks of heroin, weighing 171kg and worth $3 million.

VN trade surplus $2.7b in 2017

 Viet Nam maintained a trade surplus of about US$2.7 billion this year, the same figure as 2016, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Vietnam's inflation predicted to stay below 4% in 2018: Ministry

 The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has outlined three scenarios for inflation in 2018, with the consumer price index (CPI) in all circumstances staying below 4 per cent, the target set by the National Assembly.

HCM City plans more safe farm produce markets

The HCM City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development plans to set up 10 safe farm produce markets that will open every weekend to bring together producers and buyers of clean agricultural products.

Vietnam gains record in seafood export value in 2017

Viet Nam gained its highest ever seafood export value of US$8.32 billion in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 18 per cent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Vietnam's GDP growth could reach 7% in 2018: SSI

Viet Nam’s economy could achieve a growth rate of 7 per cent in 2018, despite an anticipated decline in the mining industry.

VN garment sector eyes $34b exports

 Viet Nam’s textile and garment industry targets a year-on-year increase of 10 per cent in export value, to US$34 billion, in 2018.