The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong plans to invest 510.2 billion VND (22.35 million USD) in a project to preserve biodiversity in the province to 2020 with a vision to 2030.

 A delegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport (MoT) is visiting Geneva, Switzerland, from February 20-24 at the invitation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

 Listed automobile companies will face a challenging and volatile year in 2017 on policy changes and rising competition from imported products.

 Delegates attending a seminar in HCM City on Wednesday urged the Government to amend or revoke a decree on rice exports which they said impedes exports of the grain.

 The Government has issued an action programme to implement the policies on economic restructuring and building of a new growth model for the period between 2016 and 2020.

 Taxi firms are calling for fair competition with tech-based rivals Uber and Grab, which have seen a rapid development in the past two years in Viet Nam.

 Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Viet Nam reached US$3.4 billion in the first two months of the year, up 21.5 per cent, compared to the same period last year, the Foreign Investment Agency’s latest statistics has revealed.

 The National Table Tennis Championships is scheduled to kick off on June 10-18, the event’s organising board announced in a briefing on Wednesday.

 Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam lost in the men’s singles second round of the China F2 Men’s Futures tournament yesterday in Anning city.

 A 10-member Vietnam mixed team has arrived to participate in the 2017 Asian Cycling Championships that will take place February 26-March 2 at the Bahrain International Circuit.

 Vietnamese budget airline Vietjet Air will start trading 300 million shares on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HoSE) on February 28 at VND90,000 (US$3.9) per share.

 The Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) will take drastic measures to recover around VND33 trillion (US$2.6 billion) of non-performing loans (NPLs) this year, VAMC chairman Nguyen Tien Dong said.

 The Government has issued an action programme to implement the policies on economic restructuring and building of a new growth model for the period between 2016 and 2020.

 For the first time Vietnamese doctors successfully performed a lung transplant from two living donors. 

 Vietnam won a berth in the semi-finals of the Junior Davis Cup, Asia Oceania Pre-Qualifying Tournament in New Dehli, India on February 23.

 Vietnam aims to create 1.6 million jobs in 2017

 The Hanoi People’s Committee has recently issued its 2017 economic survey plan for the municipality, where it will study the business sector, administrative agencies, individual business units and religious bodies.

 A Polish tourist and a Vietnamese tour guide lost their lives while ziplining Hang Cop waterfall in Xuan Tho commune, Da Lat city in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.

 Australia is scheduled to host the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in 2018, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on February 23.

 Chief of the General Staff of Vietnam People’s Army and Deputy Minister of National Defence Phan Van Giang met with Commanding General of the US Army Pacific Robert Brown in Hanoi on February 23.