Starting early next year, EU investors will be able to tender for several types of public infrastructure projects in Vietnam for the first time under EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement commitments.

 In an effort to improve the business environment, the Vietnamese government is accelerating the implementation of the National Single Window and the ASEAN Single Window to boost trade within ASEAN.

VietNamNet Bridge - The anticipated oversupply and unclear legal status have prompted many investors to give up investments in condotel projects.

 Con Cung JSC is set to be sued by one of its customers due to alleged evidence of false advertising of their products.

The long-awaited race to become a strategic investor in state-run shipping giant Vinalines turned out to be less fierce than expected, with only one South Korean conglomerate registering for the deal.

HCM City People's Procuracy on Wednesday proposed the death sentence for a transnational drug trafficking group which smuggled 37 kilogrammes of heroin and methamphetamines over the border from Cambodia.

 The Uzbek U23s and Palestine’s Olympic team arrived in Hanoi on August 1 for the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) U23 International Championship - Vinaphone Cup 2018.

 The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting predicts that one or more tropical low pressure systems with storm potential to hit the East Sea and affect the mainland in August.

 The Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine on August 1 warned citizens to apply drastic measures to prevent dengue fever spreading, after a person reportedly died of the disease in Ho Chi Minh recently.

Police in Thai Nguyen province working with the Investigation Police Department on Drug-Related Crimes (C47) apprehended two suspects who were smuggling a large quantity of heroin.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has worked with the Ministries of Finance and Justice and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to propose suspending imports of cryptocurrency mining machines, said a MoIT official.

 Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Do Hoang Anh Tuan and Croatian Minister of Finance Zdravko Marić have signed an agreement on the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income.

 The 11th Vietnam – India defence policy dialogue took place in New Delhi, India on August 1.

 The 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting (AMM-51) officially opened in Singapore on August 2, with the participation of foreign ministers from the 10 member countries.

Vietnam’s products overseas, especially in the US, have been facing more anti-dumping lawsuits in recent years. 

 Traffic police in Hanoi have used trucks to help carry people and their vehicles through flooded sections on Thang Long Avenue. 

With mandatory compliance for shrimp and abalone under the US Seafood Import Monitoring Programme coming into effect in a few more months, Vietnamese processors and exporters of the products need to start preparing data sources now.

 HCM City’s Department of Transport has increased car parking fees on local roads from today, August 1.

The speed of red tape cutbacks for business conditions remains limited in spite of great efforts made by the Government and relevant ministries and sectors, experts said at a conference held by VCCI in Ha Noi on July 31.

 Nguyen Nam Binh, vice head of HCM City Department of Taxation, said on August 1 that they had collected $164,000 in tax arrears and fines from a local man that earned VND41bn from Facebook and Google ads.