The Ministry of Science and Technology on March 12 asked the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality to put on hold a plan to issue a set of standards for fish sauce production.

 Counterfeit products have been flooding ecommerce platforms, Thanh Nien newspaper reported, citing a report by the General Department of Market Surveillance under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

VietNamNet Bridge - Replying to criticism, educators said that with a lack of money, facilities, teachers and curricula, ensuring high quality physical education was an impossible goal.

 As theCPTPP has taken effect, Vietnam and Canada can boost cooperation across multiple fields such as agriculture, fisheries, infrastructure and clean technology, according to a Canadian official at a workshop on March 11.

 The conclusions of the State Audit of Vietnam on the forced collection of tax debts from Unilever Vietnam and Sabeco are reasonable and are not cause for lawsuits, the local media reported, citing SAV auditor general Ho Duc Phoc.

 Arkady Dvorkovich, President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), is currently on a tour of various Asian countries and is due to pay Vietnam a visit on March 13.

 The HCMC authorities should review the prevailing legal frameworks and the financial capacity of investors while seeking investments in projects on the city’s prime sites.

 The construction of the first phase of Long Thanh International Airport may be completed in just three years, two years ahead of schedule, which is supposed to start in 2020 and complete in 2025, if the land for the project is made available.

 Local credit institutions have been praised for combating bad debts last year, challenging other private and state lenders to follow suit.

 To resolve bad debts, Sacombank has just decided to discount two real estate plots it previously put on sale by nearly VND1.812 trillion ($78.78 million).  

 Mobile World’s bachhoaxanh.com food store chain is seeing good prospects thanks to the co-operation with Golden Gate, which owns more than 300,000 restaurants across the country. 

 The decision to use all reserve funds to buy back 600,000 treasury stocks may leave Yeah1 (code: YEG) skint of profit.

 Officials vowed to fight against loan sharks who are wrecking thousands of lives across Vietnam.

Hanoi authorities have proposed to pilot a ban on motorbikes on Nguyen Trai or Le Van Luong street. 

 Google has recently announced a programme helping Vietnamese startups go global.

Ambassador Nguyen Thi Bich Hue, Vietnamese Permanent Representative to IFAD, has lauded the fund’s support to Vietnam over the years.

 The Government will soon issue a decision to allow a pilot implementation of peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in the country before officially developing laws for the new form of business, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue said.

 Vietnam collected 1.336 million blood units in 2018, of which 98.3 percent were donated by volunteer donors who account for only 1.68 percent of the nation’s population.

 The Vietnam-Myanmar Joint Committee for Bilateral Cooperation held its ninth meeting in Hanoi on March 12, during which its members shared the view that the countries’ comprehensive cooperative partnership is becoming increasingly substantive.

 The Viet Nam Maritime Administration has requested that associations, seaport companies and shipping companies be exempted or allowed to pay reduced service fees for containers stored at seaports for a long time.