The HCM City Stock Exchange approved the registration for listing of VPBank shares on August 8, with the lender most likely to follow its plan of debuting on the country’s main bourse in the third quarter under the “VPB” ticker.

The U.S. Navy’s USS San Diego (LPD 22) arrived in the Cam Ranh International Port on August 6 for a routine technical stop and for the crew to have an opportunity to experience Nha Trang.

Rice exports are expected to earn Vietnam from $2.3 to $2.5 billion annually during the 2021-2030 period, according to the Development Strategy for Rice Export Markets in 2017-2020 and Vision to 2030.

 Nguyen Hoang Thien and Ly Hoang Nam advanced to the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles in the Thailand F5 Futures tennis tournament.

 The Vietnam Software Association has launched a programme to choose Vietnam’s top 50 IT companies 2017, aiming to honour the leading IT firms and connect promising partners inside and outside the country.

 Hanoi athletes win up to 30 percent of Vietnam’s gold medals at international events, and they are expected to do the same in the upcoming Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games).

The second International Conference on Information Technology Outsourcing/Business Process Outsourcing in Viet Nam will be held in HCM City next October. 

 Military-run telecom group Viettel today announced that it was increasing its broadband speed for free for all its subscribers nationwide.

 The Bkav Corporation officially introduced the Bphone 2017, the second version of its Bphone, the first made-in-Viet Nam smartphone, on Tuesday.

 Vietnam’s derivatives market will start official operations on August 10 with the VN30-Index futures contract set to launch first.

 Businesses should co-operate closely with the Government to usher in a second export wave of products with higher added-value and promotion of brands, participants at a seminar in HMC City said on Tuesday.

 The Vietnam Offroad Cup (VOC) is scheduled to kick off on September 9-10 at the Culture Tourism Village of Vietnamese Nationalities on the outskirts of Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge - Brewers and pubs are thriving thanks to Vietnamese wine and beer consumption.

 Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien bade farewell to the Vietnam contingent at a simple ceremony in Hanoi on August 8, as they headed for the 2017 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.

 Floods in northern Vietnam cause $41 million in damage

ASEAN was established on August 8, 1967, with five founding members, namely Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Now the bloc has 10 member nations.

The Party Central Committee’s Secretariat has decided to relieve Ho Thi Kim Thoa of her membership at the Party delegation at the Ministry of Industry and Trade for her violations when she led the Dien Quang Lamp JSC.

 The country’s total retail sales revenue reached nearly 2.24 quadrillion VND ($98.6 billion) in the first seven months of this year, representing a year-on-year increase of 10 percent.

Japan and the Republic of Korea expressed their commitments to supporting Vietnam’s initiatives in addressing regional security challenges on the sidelines of the ongoing 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on August 8.

 Vietnam is a leading information technology (IT) services destination in Asia, heard a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on August 8 on the upcoming IT service export conference 2017.