Viet Nam has 718 State-owned enterprises (SOEs), most of them big or medium-sized and in 19 key sectors, that help the Government manage the economy.

 The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) is the largest State-owned bank by total assets, according to Moody's Investors Service. 

VietNamNet Bridge - All the three largest mobile network operators in Vietnam, namely Viettel, MobiFone and VinaPhone, witnessed big changes in key staff in the last three years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will lose nearly 39 per cent of the total area of the MekongDelta – the biggest rice granary of the country if the sea level rises 100cm by the end of the century.

VietNamNet Bridge - Besides the stunning scenery, fish sauce processing enterprises are also must-see places on Vietnam’s largest island Phu Quoc, in Kien Giang province.

Cashew nut shells, considered ‘rubbish’ by many people, turn out to be a material which may create a market worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many of the dozens of competitions at schools are not needed, say students. 

 The northern region is expected to experience the coldest snap so far this year.

 Vietnam was listed in the top three most popular expansion destinations in South Asia, following Singapore and Japan, in United Overseas Bank’s Asian Enterprises Report 2016.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has been in office for eight months and his actions have captured the attention of both the mainstream press and social networks. VietNamNet talked to Ms. Pham Chi Lan, an independent economic expert. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Not only trading companies but authorized car distributors as well have been found playing tricks to evade tax.

 Ten Vietnamese software companies have opened branches in Japan, Vietnam’s second largest outsourcing market since 2014. 

The Ministry of Culture and the People’s Committee of Yen Bai on October 26 jointly held a conference to build a national dossier on Xoe dance of Thai ethnic people to submit for UNESCO recognition as an intangible heritage of humanity.

 Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and Deputy Defence Minister Lieut. Gen. Phan Van Giang on October 26 held talks with visiting Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr., Commander of the US Pacific Command. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Time Magazine has used the portrait of General Vo Nguyen Giap on its cover three times and published articles about different periods in the general’s career.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For over a decade the pace of tourism development in HCM City has been rather slow due to limited products in terms of places of interest and cultural and entertainment activities for tourists.

Although he holds only 10 shares in Masan Group, Masan Chairman Nguyen Dang Quang and his family have lost nearly $35 million in recent days due to the impact of the rivalry between traditional and industrial fish-sauce producers, reported Infonet.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A fisherman in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on Monday caught a giant catfish weighing nearly 130kg, 2.2m long in the Serepok River in Buon Don district.

VietNamNet Bridge – Women in HCM City who have sought online boyfriends have lost a total of hundreds of thousands of USD to a group of Nigerian men in Malaysia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden will be staged for the first time in HCM City next month.