Business Monitor International (BMI) forecasts $1.76 billion in revenue for the Vietnamese confectionery industry in 2018. To take control of this market, firms have set out grand strategies for the Lunar New Year.

Over the span of 2017 and the first three weeks of 2018, the price of the euro surged, causing mild unease among import-export businesses despite Vietnamese exports to the EUhitting $40 billion per year.

 Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have seen real estate sector transactions reach a total volume of more than US$2 billion in the last two years.

 The numerous errors that the Government Inspectorate outlined at Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) have not been fixed yet.

 Despite shipping market difficulties, international suppliers of equipment and spare parts have been trending towards the Vietnamese shipbuilding industry to cash in on the vast local potential for growth.

 Seven teams of students from five universities in Vietnam will participate at Shell Eco-Marathon Asia (SMEA) 2018 – Make the Future, which will take place at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore from March 8-11.

 Vu Dai village, also known as Dai Hoang village, in Ha Nam province, is famous for an age-old specialty - braised fish in earthenware pots.

 The Government Inspectorate has just published violations in the management of mineral extraction and processing in the northern province of Lao Cai.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications has summoned an American teacher who is now living in Hanoi for a bad-taste joke on Facebook about Vietnam’s late hero General Vo Nguyen Giap.

 Vietjet Air CEO, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, has apologised for the use of models wearing bikinis on the plane welcoming the local U23 football team home yesterday.

 Many Vietnamese people are seeking to buy sets of multi-national bank notes as the Lunar New Year lucky money for their friends and relatives.

 Cyber security will continue to be a ’hot topic’ this year, demanding the attention of technology experts.

 Creating a market to connect demand and supply of technological products will help develop the technology industry, according to experts.

 It remains impossible for Viet Nam’s securities market to get promoted from a frontier market to an emerging market this year, officials say.

Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) is seeking to make its initial public offering (IPO) in mid-2018, with an expected chartered capital of US$630 million. 

 Some weak banks that are undergoing restructuring might get out of the worse thanks to unprecedented support measures under a new law, experts have said.

 Dairy giant Vinamilk will continue to expand abroad, especially in emerging market like Laos and Myanmar, this year.

 The implementation of tariff reduction to zero per cent under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) from January 1, is an obsession with the Vietnamese sugar industry.

 The consumer price index (CPI) in January rose by 0.51 per cent over the previous month and 2.65 per cent over the same month last year.

 The number of firms using e-invoice has increased significantly in recent years due to its convenience and cost effectiveness.