Vietnam’s best young tennis player Ly Hoang Nam and Sun Fajing won the China F12 Men’s Futures’ men’s doubles on July 14 in Shenzhen City, China.

 Major challenges facing the Mekong Delta remain climate change and natural disasters, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Dang Huy Dong told a conference in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on July 14. 

Export processing zones and industrial parks in Ho Chi Minh City attracted about $384 million in investment in the first six months of 2017, up 39 percent year on year, including nearly $160 million of foreign investment, a rise of 24 percent.

 Hanoi’s Department of Information and Communications hosted a conference on July 14 to launch online public services at level 3 and 4.

HCM City is willing to create all favourable conditions for Japanese investors, including those from Kanagawa prefecture, to operate effectively in the city, especially in the fields of mechanics, information technology and plastics.

HCM City wants to foster ties with the Republic of Korea in education and training, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong told Chairman of the Korea-Asia Friendship Foundation Choi Jae-sung. 

 A cycling tournament entitled ‘Returning to Truong Son’ began on July 15 in Hanoi, as one activity to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the War Invalids’ and Martyrs’ Day on July 27.

 The central province of Quang Tri and two bordering Lao provinces - Savanakhet and Salavan - have signed an agreement on cooperation in border affairs and border marker planting for 2017-2018.

The Vietnam Sports Administration, the Vietnam Olympic Committee and relevant ministries and branches will create the best possible conditions for Vietnamese athletes to gain impressive achievements at the 29th Southeast Asian Games.

Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and a Foreign Ministry delegation visited the Lao Embassy in Hanoi on July 15 for a joint celebration of the Vietnam-Laos Friendship and Solidarity Year 2017.

Just days after authorities permitted Vinh Tan 1 power plant to pour nearly 1 million cubic meters of sludge into the sea, EVNGENCO 3, another power generator, said it wanted to pour 2.4 million cubic meters of sludge into the Binh Thuan sea.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese students studying overseas spend their free time collecting discounted goods and shipping the goods to clients in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - By developing transport infrastructure projects under the mode of BT (build, transfer), investors are willing to pour capital into projects if there are reasonable policies. 

I am from the Philippines and married to a Vietnamese. My wife gave birth to our daughter in the Philippines and we are now living in Vietnam. What papers we are required to prepare to enroll her in a Vietnamese school?

According to Government Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP, enterprises established under Vietnamese law have the right to import and export goods regardless of their registered business lines, except goods on the list of goods banned from import.

While MOIT and experts have decided that Vietnam needs to develop an automobile industry of its own, other experts believe that the ‘automobile dream’ is ‘far away’ and that Vietnam should focus on making 2-wheel vehicles. 

 Vietnam’s Consulate General in Perth and the West Australian Vietnam Business Council (WAVBC) on July 13 held a workshop to promote multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and the Western Australian State, especially in the field of business.

VietNamNet Bridge - Viettel, the telecom group, and Tan Can Sai Gon (SNP), a port developer, are the two names topping the list of military companies sought by investors.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) has drawn up a plan to find jobs overseas for 54,000 university graduates who cannot find jobs.

VietNamNet Bridge - While Vietnamese garment companies think the domestic market is too small, foreign investors consider Vietnam the "new land" to exploit, with the garment market worth $4.5 billion.