Viet Nam’s cashew industry has targeted 300,000 tonnes of cashew exports at a value of US$3 billion this year, a year-on-year reduction of 50,000 tonnes in volume and $500 million in value.

 The HCM City Tax Department plans to continue to collect taxes from online businesses that use Facebook and other social media sites.

 It was back to the bold and beautiful at Sunday's Screen Actors Guild awards, following the almost universal black dress code deployed at the recent Golden Globes.

 The US has approved controversial tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels.

 South Korea is banning the use of anonymous bank accounts to make cryptocurrency transactions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – So Village’s communal house on the western outskirts of Hanoi will provide a platform to showcase the traditional customs of the Vietnamese Lunar New Year on February 10.

Seven teams of students from five universities in Vietnam will participate at Shell Eco-Marathon Asia (SMEA) 2018 – Make the Future, which will take place at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore from March 8-11.

Organisers collected VNĐ600 million (US$27,000) from a charity golf tournament organised at the Golf King’s Island in Dong Mo, Son Tay Town, in Hanoi last week. 

 More than 30 paintings, photos and sculptures by 11 Dutch artists were displayed at an exhibition hosted by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Hanoi.

The list of SOEs put under control of the ‘super committee’, shows that the government wants control in some key business fields – energy, natural resources, infrastructure and agricultural land.

 The revision to the Law on Higher Education should create more favourable conditions for private institutions in tertiary education, officials have said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s winter is said to be incomplete without savouring banh khuc or xoi khuc.

Vietnam is the focus of India’s Act East policy, affirmed Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Parvathaneni Harish in an interview with VNA on threshold of PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s visit to attend the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit.

 The 26th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-26), which took place in Hanoi from January 18 to 21, was declared a success with its agenda fulfilled and the Vietnamese National Assembly’s dynamism on display.

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 The Government and people of Vietnam will make greater efforts to accelerate the cooperation with the Government, parliament and people of Mongolia, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 The Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology under the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) was presented with an institutional ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) quality certificate on January 22.

The Vietnam Sugar and Sugarcane Association has proposed to PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc not to allow an extension for temporary sugar imports for re-export as the sweet industry is struggling with high stockpiles and slumping prices.

 Vietnamese shares soared in the first trading session of the week as investor confidence remained strong on expectations for good earnings reports.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has about 200 bridges in need of repair or replacement, 30 of which will be repaired by 2020, said Bui Xuan Cuong, director of the city’s Department of Transport.