Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) has decided to temporarily suspend the import of fish and shrimps from Viet Nam.

Total foreign-sourced capital for projects will gradually decline as from 2018, when Vietnam will completely graduate from ODA, leading to more prudent consideration of projects using less preferential loans.

 Saigontourist Holding Company – the country’s leading tourism services provider – and its subsidiary Saigontourist Travel Service Company are expected to go public later this year, said the group’s top executive.

 The highest bonus for workers for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday (Tet) is VND855 million (around US$37,650) and the lowest is VND20,000, according to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

 The Government has issued a resolution on State apparatus reform with an aim to cut down the number of agencies and civil servants in 2021 by 10% compared to 2015, news website Vneconomy reports.

The Prime Minister has recently approved the Target Program on Information Technology (IT) for the period of 2016-2020.

 Events in Hanoi & HCMC from Feb. 5 to 11

Hanoi’s largest fish market So Thuong was bustling with custom on February 5 as people are busy preparing for Ong Cong – Ong Tao (the Land Genie and the Kitchen Gods Day), which falls on 23rd of the last month of the Lunar New Year.

 Two South Korean investors, namely SK E&C and POSCO E&C, will develop two projects to serve Long Son Petrochemical Complex located in Long Son Island in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, according to newswire Koreabusiness.

To date, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Taxation has yet to enforce tax payments from Uber B.V because the company has yet to open a bank account in Vietnam.   

Folk games common to the childhoods of many generations have made a return to the newly pedestrianised Phung Hung Street in Hanoi.

 Washing machines and solar panels manufactured in Vietnam and exported to the US will be slapped with new US tariffs, a concern to manufacturers who still plan to keep their investments in the country on track.

 The growing appetite of consumers for natural cosmetics has fuelled the billion-dollar domestic cosmetics market, which has recently seen increasing presence by local players.

Several localities have opposed to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's decision to only give permission to the Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival.

 The $358-million project of constructing an undersea tunnel through Quang Ninh city’s Cua Luc Bay is expected to be finished by early 2019.

Twelve swans have been removed from Hoan Kiem Lake after just a day after being brought there.

 Hundreds of trucks loaded with fruit for transport to China have been seriously delayed at the northern province of Lang Son’s Tan Thanh border gate.

 Hanoi authorities have issued a new disease prevention programme that requires local residents to register their pet dogs and cats with officials.

To ensure sustainable development, economists emphasize the need to reform the growth model and improve productivity.

 Many people have flocked to Hanoi's Hang Ma Street to buy offerings for the coming Kitchen Gods' Day.