In the first eight months of the year Vietnam attracted foreign investment worth more than US$23.36 billion, a year-on-year increase of 45.1 per cent.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has valued the Vietnam Rubber Group, the country’s largest rubber company, at VND4 trillion, not including its land, marking another step toward its equitisation by the end of 2017.

 Promoting regional linkage from production to distribution is essential to turn the country’s southern part into a trade hub.

 HCM City has called for more investment in solar power in the city due to the great potential of the sector.

More and more foreign retailers are entering the Vietnamese market to a warm welcome from buyers, while Viet Nam’s domestic brands look for their own growth strategies against the newcomers.

 The Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) officially opened yesterday in Turkmenistan’s capital, Ashgabat.

 Japanese Sota Hara and Thailand’s Pujyanuch Prachayanipon won the men’s and women’s Hội An International Marathon in the historic coastal city yesterday.

 Urban Traffic Management Board No 1 under HCM City’s Department of Transport has begun testing one-way traffic for vehicles on the flyover at Cong Hoa-Hoang Hoa Tham Intersection in Tan Binh District.

 HCM City has run out of the Pentaxim vaccine that protects children against five diseases, however drug companies say they will import more vaccine doses next month, according to the city’s health department.

 Parliamentary ties between Vietnam and Russia are important to overall relations, Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Tong Thi Phong has said.

 Secretary-General of ASEAN Le Luong Minh held working sessions at the United Nations Office in Geneva and met with Swiss leaders during a working visit to Switzerland from September 11-15.

Vietnam is deeply concerned about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s launch of a ballistic missile over Japan’s airspace on September 15, spokeswoman of the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry Le Thi Thu Hang said.

 The first meeting of the people’s procuracies of Vietnam-China border provinces opened on September 17 in Nanning, the capital city of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Tong Thi Phong suggested measures to promote the role of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) at the first plenary session of the 38th AIPA General Assembly.

Eight years ago, Nguyen Thi Lanh (not her real name) of HCM City was diagnosed with hepatitis B, and several months later, she became pregnant.

 The benchmark VN-Index confirmed a steady uptrend with a forth consecutive rally week, but suspicion lingers in the context of modest liquidity and dominant role of large-cap stocks.

 Doksuri, the 10th storm arising in the East Sea and the strongest one hitting Vietnam in many years, claimed nine lives, leaving four missing and 112 injured, according to reports from affected localities by 10pm on September 16. 

 A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) led by Hoang Binh Quan, member of the CPV Central Committee and Chairman of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, visited Brazil from September 15-16.

‘Than Sa’ is understood as a kind of mineral from God. Than Sa in the Vo Nhai district of Thai Nguyen province is an archaeological relic ranked by the state for national conservation.

The first generation of entrepreneurs who appeared after doi moi (renovation) in 1986 is now getting older and beginning to worry about the transfer of business to the next generation.