VietNamNet Bridge – A painting and photo exhibition to raise fund for disadvantaged students in the mountainous province of Lao Cai, Vietnam opened in Finland on August 27.

 An increasing number of new players are entering the Vietnamese beauty market as local consumers are becoming more conscious of beauty treatment and products.

To reaffirm their ambitions of developing Long Thanh International Airport, Hanoi General Export Import JSC and Hong Kong United Investors Holding submitted their proposal to the prime minister for approval.

 In Vietnam, e-commerce has posted weak annual growth in the fast-moving consumer goods market over the past five years, said Kantar Worldpanel in a recently released report on the Asian market.

 Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) will put 500 million shares on sale in two phases.

 The more aggressive enforcement of transfer pricing laws may make life harder for multinational companies in Vietnam who do not carefully follow the tax authority’s guidance.

 The Bkav Technology Group has spent VND500 billion (nearly US$22 million) since 2009 on researching and producing the indigenous smart phone called Bphone, its CEO Nguyen Tu Quang has revealed.

Electronics retailer Tran Anh Digital is seeking its shareholders’ approval to sell a 25 per cent stake to Mobile World, paving the way for a merger into the latter company.

VN will reform rice production to gain sustainable development in the production and export of rice, according to Viet Nam’s Rice Market Development Strategy from 2017 to 2020.

VN ranks the fifth most optimistic country globally with an index score of 117 in the latest Consumer Confidence Index released by Nielsen, its highest score in the past five years.

The speedy repossession of collateral is a credit-positive step for Vietnamese banks, which continue to grapple with legacy asset-quality issues caused by rapid credit growth, Moody’s Investors Services said.

The Hai Van Pass lies between Thua Thien-Hue province and Da Nang city in central Vietnam. It is around 20 kilometres in length and around 496 metres above sea level.

 Weightlifter Thach Kim Tuan on August 28 won a gold medal in the men’s 56-kg event for Vietnam at the ongoing 29th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Malaysia.

 President Tran Dai Quang congratulated outgoing Ambassador Herminio Lopez Diaz on the latter’s successful term in Vietnam while receiving the Cuban diplomat in Hanoi on August 28.

 The New York-based Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education (IVCE) has called for donations to support poor students in rural villages of Quang Ngai and Lam Dong provinces for the new school-year.

The truck market is struggling as the demand for Chinese products has dropped dramatically, while car buyers have canceled their purchase plans and will not return until 2018 when import tariff cuts take effect, making vehicles cheaper.

Fifty-seven-year-old Nguyen Thi Hau has been pole-shouldering salt for more than half of her lifetime. She has never thought of quitting, but the poor crop of salt this year has discouraged her a bit.

In traditional markets in Nam Tra My District, prized and valuable Ngoc Linh ginseng abounds. What eager customers don’t know is that the herb they buy might not be the real thing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City and Long An Province authorities need to co-ordinate closely to build the Ben Luc-Hiep Phuoc Section of Ring Road 4, 

 Bayer and Johnson & Johnson’s blockbuster clot prevention drug Xarelto was shown to cut the risk of potentially deadly strokes and heart attacks in patients with severe atherosclerosis by 24 percent,