While many experts warn that robots, Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intellectual (AI) will deprive workers of their jobs, research say advanced technologies will create new job opportunities.

Many state-owned schools with financial autonomy and non-state schools in Hanoi are considering raising tuition after local authorities permitted state-owned schools to increase the fee by VND110,000 a month for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Leading companies from Taiwan, including 33 winners of the Taiwan Excellence Award, are showcasing their latest technologies and innovations at an upcoming three-day exhibition Vietnam ICT COMM.

 Giant mobile phone retailer Mobile World Joint-Stock Company on Wednesday announced its partnership with military telecommunication firm Viettel to explore more 4G subscriptions nationwide.

 State-owned commercial joint stock banks will be allowed to keep dividends which are supposed to be paid to the State budget so that they can increase their charter capital, State Bank of Viet Nam’s (SBV) Governor Le Minh Hung was quoted as saying.

 World Bank (WB) released its Global Economic Prospects report Sunday, forecasting a global 2017 economic growth rate of 2.7 per cent and a Vietnamese growth rate of 6.3 per cent, a rate lower than the 6.7 per cent goal set by the government.

 Nguyen Duc Huong has been voted to the chairman’s post of LienVietPostBank’s board of directors for the term between 2013 and 2018, after a month’s dismissal as its vice chairman.

Vietnam has jumped five spots to the sixth place in the 2017 Global Retail Development Index (GRDI), released by the United States' management consulting firm A.T. Kearney on Monday. 

 The draft resolution on irrecoverable debt relief by credit institutions was discussed during the National Assembly’s third session yesterday, and NA members remained in favour of the draft after adding several improvements.

VietNamNet Bridge - Economists agree that Vietnam needs to take action to grab opportunities from a new wave of investment from the US. 

 There are 18 hospitals qualified for organ transplantation in Vietnam at present, 25 years since the first successful kidney transplant in the country.

 Despite a decline in the mineral sector, production in Vietnam is gaining momentum, thanks to improved business sentiment in response to the government’s favourable policies.

 7‑Eleven, Inc, the globe’s largest convenience retailer with some 56,400 stores worldwide, has announced its first store in Vietnam will open this June in Ho Chi Minh City.

 The Vietnam-Japan business co-operation in the agricultural sector is flourishing.

 The fifth plenary meeting of the 12th Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee in May issued an important resolution that acknowledges the greater contribution of the private economy to the country’s socio-economic growth.

 MobiFone’s newfound cooperation with international technology companies is enhancing its influence in the Vietnamese market and may also benefit the company’s upcoming initial public offering (IPO).

 The real estate markets of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City saw a recent breakthrough when work on several large-scale projects was resumed after long years of delay.

Franchising has become a popular business model around the world. Due to global integration, it has now reached Vietnam. But franchising is still a novel idea to most Vietnamese businessmen.

Wood and timber products, rice, coffee, cashew nuts and vegetables and fruits, each with a value of more than US$1 billion, are top export products in the first five months of this year.

 Swedish Fashion Giant Hennes & Mauritz announced June 7 that it will make its retail debut in Vietnam with the opening of a store in the southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City later this month.