Trade development in the Cambodia-Laos-Viet Nam Development Triangle Area remains modest and unsynchronised, failing to match the potential for strategic co-operation between the three countries, speakers said at a forum on Monday.

 New strategies to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) must strengthen linkages with domestic enterprises as a lacuna that cannot be ignored anymore, experts say.

 Saigon Heat defeated Mono Vampire 110-94 at the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) at the CIS Arena in HCM City on December 17.

 The first 11 months of 2017 witnessed a boom in foreign investment in Vietnam, which surged up 53.4 percent year on year to reach 33 billion USD of new capital.

 About 25 percent of CEOs or board directors in Vietnam are women, surpassing the figures for Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

 The second deputy-ministerial level Security Dialogue between the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam and the Indonesian National Police (INP) took place in Jakarta on December 18.

 The Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation (Petrolimex) will be the first to distribute diesel oil with Euro 5 standard in the Vietnamese market from January 1, 2018.

 Experts forecast about 1 billion USD worth of timber to be exported to the EU annually by 2020 thanks to the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), according to an official of the Vietnam Timber and Forest Association.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong chaired a grand welcome ceremony for General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Bounnhang Vorachith in Hanoi on December 19.

In these days, hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City admitted many malaria patients from the southern provinces, causing worry of the disease relapse.

VietNamNet Bridge - The size of the consumer market has increased rapidly, attracting more foreign capital.

 The Vietnam national women’s football team have dropped one spot to number 32 in FIFA’s latest world rankings.

 Ulsan Hyundai FC, who won the Republic of Korea’s FA Cup earlier this month, will send a squad of 18 to Vietnam for a friendly match with U23 Vietnam on December 21 in Hanoi.

Next year, Vietnam expects to produce and provide a sufficient supply of vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease, an infectious and sometime fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals.

 Vietnam welcomes and creates favourable conditions for Moroccan businesses to invest in the country and expand cooperation with local counterparts, President Tran Dai Quang has said.

 General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Bounnhang Vorachith arrived in Hanoi on December 19 morning, starting an official friendly visit to Vietnam.

 A new typhoon, Kaitak, entered the south of the East Sea on December 18 afternoon. As the 15th storm to hit the waters this year, it is forecast to get stronger, according to the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting.

 The Vietnam Railways Corporation (VNR) has launched a freight rail service between Vietnam’s northern port city of Hai Phong and Kaiyuan in China’s Yunnan province.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Mekong Delta region to improve logistics to increase fruit and vegetable exports to global markets.

 Shares on both local markets advanced further towards the end of December 18 afternoon session on solid investor confidence following the successful Sabeco share auction, as well as the recovery of major large-cap stocks.