The southeastern region offers favourable conditions for the cultivation of major industrial crops such as rubber, coconut trees and pepper vines, all of which earn high profits, but challenges remain as yields have decreased for various reasons.

Viet Nam women’s national football team were beaten by two goals to nil by Okayama Club in a friendly match in Japan yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Experts earlier this year all predicted that there would be a high number of M&A deals in the banking sector this year. However, this has not occurred.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has engaged in a series of bilateral and multilateral meetings as part of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and related events in Singapore

 The recent 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-51) and other related meetings hosted by Singapore have secured many important outcomes, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung told the media recently.

 State-owned businesses must undergo an urgent review of their assets before they can be equitised over the next two years.

 Job seekers can turn to a new smartphone app iWORK in a bid to find work. The app is also available to help those looking for staff find the right employee.

VietNamNet Bridge - With stable profit margins and steady growth, the clean water sector is attractive to both domestic and foreign investors.

 Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in the past days had left six dead, five missing and two injured in the northern mountainous region by 17:00 on August 5.

 Italian giants Juventus have officially opened a football academy for youngsters in Vietnam as the club’s first venture in Southeast Asia.

 As the exchange rate between USD and Vietnamese dong has surged in the past two months, exporters are eager for extra profits they can earn for each batch of goods.

 A group of 10 young people recently held a charity event in Ho Chi Minh City to raise funds for deaf-mute kids in Anh Minh Private Specialised School.

 Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has reported that many hospitals have been found abusing the health insurance fund in the first six months of this year.

 The sixth Ho Chi Minh City International Marathon will be held on January 13, 2019 in District 7.

VietNamNet Bridge - In Vietnam, big retailers are dominant in distributing brand new genuine products, while the used phone market segment is controlled by private shops.

Some enterprises had several repeated offences in importing prohibited scrap, but they only had to pay a fine of between tens and hundreds of million of dong. 

 Dragon fruit farmers in Binh Thuan Province, the country’s largest producer of the fruit, are enjoying high prices and steady demand in the main harvest season this year.

 In recent years, the number of children involved in water-related incidents has increased. To prevent these incidents, local authorities have found a creative way to build natural swimming pools for children to learn how to swim and also go swimming. 

 A new employment mobile application, called iWork, has been developed by iWork Service JSC and will make debut this September.

 Martial artists from the northern province of Hai Duong had an exchange with those from Seine-Saint-Denis province of France on August 4.