As of January 8, 61 of the 152 Vietnamese tourists who went missing in Taiwan in late 2018 had been found, with 39 of them men and the remainder women.

 Former deputy general director of the Hanoi-based BIDV Tran Anh Sang, 57, has been charged with violating banking regulations and thus causing a hefty loss of over US$38 million.

Five of the 10 ecommerce platforms registered in Vietnam recorded high numbers of visits from desktop and mobile users in the ASEAN region, according to a year-end review on Vietnamese ecommerce in 2018.

The international ICT business community has voiced concerns on a fresh draft of amendments to the government Decree No.06/2016/ND-CP.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will conduct annual inspections on a number of State and private businesses in different sectors, including those involved in petroleum, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and multi-level marketing.

VietNamNet Bridge - 2018 was an eventful year for Vietnam’s mobile phone manufacturing industry. 

 Farmers growing flowers and ornamental trees for Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday in many provinces are waiting for a bumper crop this year.

 Plant-based drinks, including milk and soy milk with rice, nuts, grains or seeds added, have become a new trend in Vietnam, according to the latest monitor report from market research firm Kantar Worldpanel.

VietNamNet Bridge - Brokers and Chinese-related enterprises are seeking to buy Vietnamese small and medium sized farm-produce and seafood export companies.

 Vietnam's global economic integration amid increasing trade protectionism worldwide has exposed the country's exports to multiple lawsuits.

 Vietnam Airlines’ on-time performance in the last two months of 2018 has improved significantly, reaching the fifth place among 35 airlines in the Asia – Pacific in terms of punctuality, VnExpress reported.

 Four major state-owned commercial banks in Vietnam have announced that they will lower their lending rates to priority sectors in a move to support enterprises.

 Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee, Nguyen Duc Chung has just signed a controversial decision which bans people from recording at citizen reception offices.

 A woman in the central province of Ha Tinh will sue the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam for the agency’s lax management over a local junction which was partially blamed for a recent accident leading to her husband’s death.

 Police in the northern province of Quang Ninh believed eight Vietnamese were involved in an illegal surrogacy service.

The financial sector collected $60.2 billion towards the State budget in 2018, or 7.8 percent higher than projected, heard a conference to review financial and budget works in 2018 and put forward tasks for 2019.

 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang underlined Vietnam’s stance on the US vessel USS McCampbell’s passage through Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) waters, while responding to reporters’ questions regarding the case on January 9. 

 MicroDragon, a made-in-Vietnam earth observation satellite, will be launched into orbit by an Epsilon-4 rocket from the Uchinoura Space Centre in Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture at 7:50 of January 17 (Hanoi time).

 The Vietnamese Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macau (China) on January 9 met with sides relevant in an oil tanker blaze in Hong Kong’s southern waters to find the causes of the incident and discuss search and rescue measures.

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