VietNamNet Bridge - Tran Phuong, a renowned educator who has trained 60 students who won top prizes at international competitions, talks about what Vietnam needs to do to develop young talent.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Gioi Di Dong JSC (Mobile World - MWG), the owner of the largest mobile phone & home appliance distribution chain, has prepared VND2.5 trillion in its coffers for the disbursement for large M&A deals.

VietNamNet Bridge - At a recent international workshop on 4G LTE, IDG announced the results of the survey it conducted about users’ satisfaction with 4G services from April 1 to July 1.

The forests in Central Highlands have been disappearing at a rapid rate amid the helplessness of forest management units. In many ‘hot spots’, forests have been cleared, although they still exist on paper.

The HCMC Department of Transport is organizing bid invitation to choose contractors for the first phase of the intelligent transportation system which is expected to cost $264 million.

Six Vietnamese engineering students have been awarded fellowships to pursue master degrees at the US-based Arizona State University as part of a plan to prepare skilled manpower for HCM City’s Smart City project.

 Vietnam beat Sri Lanka 25-12, 25-14, 25-17 in the first match of the Asian Senior Women’s Volleyball Championship’s preliminary round in the Philippines on Wednesday.

 Midfielder Nguyen Thi Tuyet Dung has been featured on the FIFA home page, in an article in which the world football governing agency appreciates her scoring skills.

 Vietnam imported petroleum mainly from the ASEAN and South Korea in the first seven months of 2017, which together accounted for 90 per cent of the imports.

 A high-level military delegation led by Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich made an official visit to the US from August 7-10.

 ASEAN at 50

Setting up a logistics joint venture with Minh Phuong, Samsung has shown that it wants to jump into a new business field in Vietnam. But the move may trigger a new war in the domestic logistics market.

As Resolution No.42/2017/QH14 on the pilot settlement of credit institutions’ bad debts is enacted, it is hoped that bottlenecks for M&A activities in the banking industry will be removed and more M&A deals will be implemented soon.

 Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre (Vietnam MRCC) transported a crew member from a Panamanian crude oil tanker in waters off Nha Trang City to hospital.

 Numerous issues will be discussed at the 13th session of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee that opened in Hanoi on August 10.

 The Republic of Korea’s Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company has won a 320 million USD contract to build facilities at the Long Son Petrochemical Complex.

 Vietnam’s stock market has 23 companies valued at over 1 billion USD and most of them have reported higher business results in the first half of this year.

 A water supply development programme, including 11 projects invested by Saigon Water Corporation (Sawaco), will be implemented in HCM City to supply clean water for all households.

 Hanoi officials exchanged experience in various fields with the administrations of Bulgaria’s Sofia and Portugal’s Lisbon while visiting the two European capital cities from August 5 to 10.

After newspapers released the death of a pregnant after a cosmetic surgery in an infirmary in HCM City, the Ministry of Health ordered in writing its sub-department to verify and issue penalty if violations were found.