Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) wants to sell all the assets of its finance subsidiary Post and Telecommunication Finance Company Limited (PTF) for at least VNĐ500 billion (US$21.9 million).

 Merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in Viet Nam’s real estate sector are forecast to increase in 2018, driven by the market’s significant potential, experts said.

Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) is auctioning 71,577,141 million Maritime Bank (MSB) shares in a single-batch sale on January 18 on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX).

VietNamNet Bridge - Fifty instant noodle manufacturers exist in Vietnam, but the market is controlled by three big players, namely Acecook, Asia and Masan.

 It was a year of endings and beginnings: the plucky Cassini spacecraft's 13-year-long mission reached its finale, while the fledgling field of gravitational wave astronomy bagged the catastrophic collision of two dead stars.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A plan to supervise the amount of aflatoxin, a carcinogenic mould, in food should be implemented from harvesting, processing to storing food, plants and grains to reduce toxic exposure to consumers, 

 Two class action lawsuits have been launched against Apple in the US following the tech giant's admission that it slows down older models of the iPhone as they age.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Camera traps in Vu Quang National Park in central Ha Tinh Province recently captured pictures of elephants, affirming the existence of the giant mammal.

 Bitcoin plunged on Friday, extending a fall that saw the crypto-currency lose almost a third of its value from a record of nearly $20,000 (£15,000).

 More than 8,000 athletes from 49 countries and territories around the world are expected to partake in the HCM City Marathon 2018 which is scheduled to be held on January 14, 2018, the organizing committee said at a recent news conference.

 Tung lamaow is a famous traditional dish of Cham people in the border town of Chau Doc in An Giang Province.

 Denmark continues providing non-refundable official development aid (ODA) to promote Vietnam’s energy development in the framework of the Vietnam-Denmark Energy Partnership Programme in 2017-2020. 

On January 17 of next year, Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Co., Ltd. will conduct its IPO to sell 242 million shares, with the expectation to acquire VND4 trillion ($176.1 million) from the deal.

 Pope Francis has urged the world not to ignore the plight of millions of migrants "driven from their land", during Christmas Eve Mass.

In a report to the Singapore Exchange, Thailand Beverage (ThaiBev) mentioned the acquisition deal of Sabeco and said Vietnam Beverage is expected to complete the payment to the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade on December 28, 2017.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has just released a list of 10 large enterprises in the industry and trade sectors to conduct state divestment in 2018, attracting the attention of foreign and domestic investors.

 Foreign investors are offered a maximum of 296.46 million shares in Becamex IDC Corporation (Becamex IDC) at the second auction which is expected to be held on January 3, 2018.

 The Vietnamese stock market has recently been showing signs of a revival in the market of bank stocks.

Bitcoin has been ceaselessly brought into the limelight due to its ambiguity regarding the face value as well as the potential legal and regulatory risks challenging Bitcoin “whales.”

 A dramatic change in market trends and the "fourth" industrial revolution are forcing Vietnamese enterprises to gradually apply new technologies to production.