ASEAN Ambassadors in Viet Nam share their thoughts on ASEAN on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the regional grouping (August 8, 2017) and their visions for its development:

 Top Vietnamese female swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien will compete in 10-12 categories with the aim of earning 8-10 gold medals at the upcoming 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.

 Ho Chi Minh City has received more than 80 percent of questionnaires from enterprises, the highest rate in recent years, after four months of gathering data for the first phase of the 2017 economic census.

 Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung led a Vietnamese delegation to the ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) and related meetings held in Manila, the Philippines on August 3-4.

 Vietnamese marksmen set a relatively modest goal of earning three gold medals at the upcoming Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Malaysia.

 Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) Vice President Tran Quoc Tuan has been voted a co-opted member of the Asian Football Confederation’s Executive Committee for a three-year (2017-2019) term.

 Early season flooding and heavy rainfall have severely damaged thousands of hectares of rice fields in the Mekong Delta province of Long An.

 The Vietnamese women’s and men’s futsal teams will face defending champions Thailand in the opener of the 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Malaysia on August 18, per the event’s draw.

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh participated in the 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM 50) opened in Manila, the Philippines, on August 5.

 Singapore has refused to replace the Philippines as host of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 30).

 ASEAN foreign ministers on August 5 reached a consensus on a draft framework for a code of conduct (COC) of parties in the East Sea.

VietNamNet Bridge - Binh Son Refining & Petrochemical (BSR) is seeking a $1.26 billion government-guaranteed loan out of the total $1.8 billion needed to upgrade the Dung Quat Oil Refinery. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign investors are planning to make electric cars in Vietnam, but the infrastructure for electric car development is poor, with no charge stations.

If 300-400 more small- and medium-sized hydropower plants are built, the total capacity would be 3,000-4,000 MW, or 15 billion kwh of electricity, according to the VN Environment Administration.

VietNamNet Bridge - The PM’s economic advisory group which was established under a PM’s decision includes 14 members, headed by Dr Vu Viet Ngoan, former chair of the National Finance Supervisory Council.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thai, Japanese and Danish investors are earning trillions of dong from the shares of profitable Vietnamese enterprises they are holding.

 This year’s natural disasters in Viet Nam have caused much severer consequences than the first seven months of 2016.

 The SEA Games 29 women’s football program has released its 2017 schedule for Vietnam, which includes opponents from four different teams as follows:

 The organisers of SEA Games 29 have received 100 million MR (around $23.33 million) from over 300 sponsors, Malaysian Minister of Youths and Sports Khairy Jamaluddin said on August 4.

 The International Tennis Federation (ITF) Annual General Meeting 2017, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City from August 1-4, focused on sketching out the ITF strategic vision towards 2024.