The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) coordinated with its partners to review a project establishing a sustainable Tra fish (pangasius) supply chain in Vietnam (SUPA) in Ho Chi Minh City on March 29.

 A training course was held in Hanoi on March 29 to equipped officers who are going to join UN peacekeeping missions in 2017 with skills to handle bombs, mines and explosive materials.

 Vietnam resolutely protests against Taiwan (China)’s live-fire drill in waters around Ba Binh in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago and demands that Taiwan not to repeat such activity.

Thailand has announced its final decision for anti-dumping investigations into certain hot dip plated or coated with aluminum zinc alloy of cold rolled steel and painted hot dip galvanized of cold rolled steel imported from Vietnam.

 FPT Information System (FPT IS) last week put into operation the Integrated VAT Administration System (IVAS) worth US$33.6 million developed for the Tax Department of Bangladesh after 12 months of implementation.

 Many agricultural experts believe an increase in the farmland limit and land accumulation should be done in a careful manner, or else farmers would become impoverished, heard the 2017 Spring Agriculture Forum in Hanoi this week.

VietNamNet Bridge - The real estate market saw a boom in M&A deals in the second half of 2016 and the trend continues in the first months of 2017.

 Two preschool teachers are suspended from work to wait for further penalties for their wrongdoing.

 As per the Prime Minister’s directive, relevant agencies must help students complete the high school graduation examination.

 Thirty-two per cent of employees in Vietnam’s IT sector are unhappy with their current salary, according to the IT Skills, Benefits and Recruitment Trend in 2017 report released recently by VietnamWorks and the Navigos Group.

 The Quang Ninh Provincial People’s Committee has proposed Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung consider and approve a plan for turning Quang Ninh Airport into the Van Don International Airport.

Pavements in HCM City’s District 1 have now been largely cleared of obstacles.

 A woman in Long Bien District, Hanoi has used thousands of recycled plastic bottles to build a small house and raise people's awareness about environmental protection.

 Vietnam has recorded a trade deficit of nearly $2 billion so far this year following the trade surplus of $2.7 billion in 2016.

 Danang City has asked the investor of Tien Sa eco-tourism resort to halt the project as the constructions are being conducted without licence.

 The family of the Vietnamese nine-year-old girl who was recently found dead in Japan said that they are facing language and legal difficulties with Japanese agencies.

 There is great potential for organic food production in Viet Nam, but the industry faces a number of challenges, experts said.

Mergers and acquisitions activities in the banking sector in the past two years seem to have cooled down, and without the right policies that would solve major bottlenecks in the process of buying banks, it is unlikely to pick up soon.

 The proposal on the application of Euro 4 emission standards as of March 31, 2017 made by the Ministry of Transport may become a barrier to domestic automakers, while promoting imported products.

 The Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) will list its shares coded PLX on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) some time between April 18 and 21.