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Solar dryers help farmers save time and labour

 Instead of drying farm produce on canvas or house roofs, some mushrooms producers in Da Nang city have used solar dryers to preserve products. 

Silent efforts help Vietnam-Japan friendship thrive

 Nozomi Soejima is living out a dream she has had since she was a little girl. The Japanese occupational therapist has helped rehabilitate Vietnamese patients at the Rehabilitation Centre of Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi for almost two years.

State Securities Commission to increase quality of securities firms

 The State Securities Commission (SSC) will enhance the quality of securities firms by shutting down and revoking licences of financially-weak companies to ensure the sector is healthy.

Vinalines to make second effort to sell its shares

 Over 480 million shares that the State-owned Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) failed to sell at its recent initial public offering (IPO) will be offered to investors in the near future.

Vietnam to set foreign ownership limit in fintech sector

 The central bank has proposed issuing detailed regulations on foreign shareholding limit in the country’s fintech firms to better manage the nascent financial services sector.

Viet Nam crush Lebanon 7-0 at AFC women’s champs

 Việt Nam’s U16 team crushed Lebanon 7-0 in the third match of their Group F qualifying round for the 2019 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s U16 Championship in Bangladesh on Friday. 

Nam enters quarter-finals of Spain F28 Futures

 Việt Nam’s top tennis player Lý Hoàng Nam is through to the men’s singles quarter-finals at the Spain F28 Futures tournament in Madrid.

Investors eye land plots in HCMC’s neighboring areas

VietNamNet Bridge - Can Gio district in HCMC and Nhon Trach in Dong Nai province have become new destinations for many investors, thanks to infrastructure development in the areas.


Real estate credit under strict control

 With the issuance of Resolution No.01/NQ-CP, the Vietnamese government has affirmed that it will strictly control credit for potentially risky sectors, especially real estate, beginning this year.

New FiT puts new wind in sails of renewables

 Vu Chi Mai, senior project officer of the ‘Support to the Up-Scaling of Wind Power in Vietnam’ project under the GIZ Energy Support Programme, shared her views about the positive development.

Putting ODA to work

 New or altered strategies are needed for Vietnam to fully leverage the vital support provided by Japanese ODA.

UN General Assembly hold minute’s silence to remember President Tran Dai Quang

 The General Assembly of the United Nations held a minute’s silence to remember Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, who passed away on September 21 in Hanoi.

President Tran Dai Quang’s death receives wide coverage on world media

 International media worldwide have published news on the death of President of Vietnam Tran Dai Quang and highlighted his contribution to Vietnam’s development. 

More state-owned economic groups want to divest from huge projects

Because of the difficulties in arranging investment capital, many state-owned economic groups want to withdraw from large projects. 

Investors keep faith despite trade war

 As emerging markets around the world catch headwinds from the global trade war, investors still bank on Vietnam’s stable macro-economics and growing stock market.

Foreign investors eye industrial and logistics property

Vietnam's industrial and logistics property sector has seen a wave of foreign investors in recent years hoping to seize the opportunities from the country becoming a new regional manufacturing hub.

FIEs as the “trail-blazers” of Vietnam’s stellar growth

Nguyen Chi Dung, Minister of Planning and Investment, said that foreign-invested enterprises can be described as “trail-blazers” of Vietnam’s socioeconomic development.

Japanese expats at ease in Vietnam

 Most Japanese expats in Vietnam are quick to settle in and find a lot to like.

Monopoly worries IT businesses

 The Investment and Trade Promotion Center of HCM City and the city’s Department of Information and Communications on September 18 jointly organized a discussion session between ICT businesses and the municipal authorities.

Vietnam sets to lift foreign ownership cap in aviation industry

 The government has planned to increase foreign shareholding in Vietnamese airlines in a move to seek more investment to meet the country’s rapidly growing air transport demand.