Vietnam is making great strides in equitising its state-owned enterprises, but more efforts are necessary to welcome foreign capital into the domestic market.

 Uber is yet again in new disagreements with authorities.

 Vietnam’s import-export revenue has increased four-fold in the past decade after joining the WTO, the General Department of Customs reports.

 A Malaysian lawyer, S. Selvam Shanmugam, came to Vietnam to meet with the family of Doan Thi Huong, the Vietnamese suspect in the killing of North Korean citizen Kim Chol in Malaysia.

 Some major brands in Viet Nam had to stop advertising on the world’s largest online video site, YouTube, when these brands’ advertisements were linked to clips containing poor content.

 Many State-owned enterprises are seeking to divest from commercial banks this year, as forecasts for the local stock remain positive.

 Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) will offer 25 per cent of its capital during its upcoming initial public offering (IPO), scheduled in the second quarter of 2017, the group has announced.

 Farmers in the central highland city of Da Lat have earned high profits from successfully growing some types of foreign fruit like Tamarillo tomato imported from Ecuador and Cara cara orange from Australia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is fairly common that women are forbidden from going near shrimp farms in several southern provinces because they are believed to bring bad luck.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Last year, H, a HCM City resident, transferred a total of VND10 billion (US$437,800) to a man she’d met on a social media website.

Vietnam’s cold chain market is expected to expand considerably in the next few years, offering investors ample business opportunities in the field. 

 The benchmark VN-Index has ended its winning run of nine consecutive weeks under heavy profit-taking selling pressures. The market is forecast to remain volatile due to ongoing portfolio restructuring of exchange-traded funds.

Tourists to the northern province of Ha Giang are greatly impressed by its imposing natural landscapes with stunning mountain ranges and terraced rice fields.

Over 3,000 girls wearing Ao Dai attended a parade on March 5 at Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street, HCMC, to form the S-shaped map of Vietnam within the framework of the ongoing Ao Dai Festival.

 Japan has helped conserve the tangible and intangible values of the Complex of Hue Monuments – a world heritage site in Hue, the imperial capital of Vietnam during the Nguyen Dynasty.

 The Central Highlands region has become an increasingly attractive destination for investment which has fueled economic growth and improved people’s livelihoods.

 A delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy in Argentina visited Mendoza province from March 3-5, aiming to tighten investment and trade links.

 Minister of Public Security To Lam was among the 16 foreign delegations attending a ceremony and a parade to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Belarus’s police force in Minsk on March 3 and 4.

 A high-level Euro-Asia regional meeting on improving cooperation on transit, trade facilitation and the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development will be held in Ha Noi from March 7-9.

 A painting exhibition of 9 artists from Hanoi opened at Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum on March 3.