VietNamNet Bridge - There are 150 coffee export companies and over 3,000 merchants who collect coffee beans from farmers to sell to roasters and exporters.

Ms. Doan Thi Thu Thuy, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency, tells VET's Hai Van about cooperation between enterprises from Vietnam and China.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many primary schools in HCMC have stopped the day-boarding regime and can only organize one class each day as there are not enough classrooms.

 The $68-million 130km route from Hanoi's Yen Vien to Ha Long just serves a few dozen passengers a day.

To sustain growth, Vietnam needs to build a strong industrial backbone with the help of foreign investments. 

 FPT Group has official launched a research and development centre in the Okinawa Prefecture to boost FPT’s growth in the Japanese market.

 The Vinh Long Preventive Medical Centre has discovered the first ever case of Zika in the province.

 The Supreme People’s Procuracy has decided to prosecute a case relating to the death of a drug trafficking suspect who died in police custody.

 Police in southern province of Bac Lieu are investigating an incident relating to the smuggling of 1.4 tonnes of suspected ivory.

 Lawmakers on September 18 proposed adding a provision to the draft amended law on credit institutions in which the Politburo’s prior consent must be sought for forced transfers of commercial banks.

 The government of HCMC is weighing charging a downtown congestion fee on automobiles from 2020.

 The Vietnamese team won five more gold in the morning of September 20, raising the total gold medals to 23 at the ongoing 9th ASEAN Para Games in Malaysia.

 Vietnam won two more gold medals at the ongoing fifth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG 2017) in Turkmenistan on September 19.

 Northern region aims to become national economic hub

 The central province of Ha Tinh September 19 reported the damages of deadly storm Doksuri with the estimates of VND6 trillion ($264 million), the 10th storm arising in the East Sea this year, made landfall on the province.

Vietnam has joined or completed negotiations for 11 free trade agreements (FTAs), bilateral and multilateral, not including the TPP, according to former Minister of Trade Truong Dinh Tuyen.

A.T. Kearney has released its 2017 Global Services Location Index, a study that analyzes and tracks the contours of the offshoring landscape in 55 countries across three major categories.

 In order to join the global value chain (GVC), Vietnam needs to expand production scale as well as improve labour capacity, product quality, and administrative capabilities.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment's draft law on developing special economic zones will provide EZ investors with major incentives, and in particular, investors of innovative startup projects will receive the most benefits.

 Vietnam's state-owned shipping group Vinalines and Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (SBIC) are running massive looses.