Startups in the agriculture sector are focusing on making products and ignoring projects on seed production.

VietNamNet Bridge - La Nina has returned this year but it won’t have a strong impact, according to the Central Hydrometeorological Forecasting Center.

 Thu Thiem new urban area now considered a viable alternative to existing CBD for company head offices, JLL reports.

VietNamNet Bridge - Under a draft law on higher education, the kind of training undertaken by a student would not be shown on bachelor degrees. 

 Vietnam has enjoyed a record 11-month trade surplus, reflecting a strong second half of the year in firms’ export-import performance.

 Extensions to Dong Nai and Binh Duong to cost $943.7 million, according to Japanese research.

VietNamNet Bridge - US Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel J. Kritenbrink today launched Phase II of the Enhanced Capacity of the Vietnam Red Cross (VNRC) project.  

 As a veteran in the information and communications technology (ICT) business, Mr. Fan will be responsible for the company’s day-to-day business operations, ensuring that Huawei meets its commitment to delivering ICT products and solutions in Vietnam.

 Thai Beverage has emerged as the only investor that intends to buy more than 25 per cent of Vietnam’s leading brewery Saigon Beer.

 Chinese investors are looking to relocate manufacturing to Vietnam to avail themselves of the country’s favourable investment conditions.

 Overseas remittances to Ho Chi Minh City is expected to total 5.2 billion USD this year, up 4.5 percent year-on-year, said an official of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).

 The Vietnamese electronic supporting industry is considered too weak to access the global supply chain. Without linkages and collaboration, Vietnamese businesses will lose their market share.

VietNamNet Bridge - Traveling the US has become more realistic as travel firms have slashed tour fees.

 The Ho Chi Minh City Taxation Department has collected VND9.1bn (USD400,100) in tax arrears from a Facebook account that sells cosmetics online.

The Competition and Consumer Protection Department has given the go-ahead for the merger and acquisitiondeal between the two largest local electronic retailers – Mobile Worldand Tran Anh Digital World.

Despite facing difficulties, the garment and textile sector is expected to export products worth US$31 billion this year, a year-on-year increase of 10.2 per cent, and the outlook is bright for next year too.

 Viet Nam’s seafood export turnover is expected to reach US$8.3 billion this year, posting an 18 per cent increase over 2016, according to the Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

 The Vietnamese coffee industry has great potential to develop considering the size of the global market and the country’s small share in it, according to the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) is taking steps for the sale of 53.59 percent of its stake, equivalent to nearly 343.7 million shares, in the country’s largest brewery Saigon Beer, Alcohol and Beverage Corporation (Sabeco).

 Three big companies of PetroVietnam will make their initial public offerings (IPOs) in the next three months, under equitisation plans approved by Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue late last week.