VietNamNet Bridge – Model Trinh Bao, 24, won the top prize at Mr International on February 24, 2019, in Manila, the Philippines.

 African swine fever (ASF) has continued spreading its wings to Vietnam, affecting the northern city of Haiphong, making it the country’s third locality hit by the epidemic.

 Vietnam is willing to provide the best conditions for the second DPRK-USA Summit scheduled to take place in the capital city of Hanoi on February 27 and 28, said a local official.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The annual Lim love duet singing festival, which often takes place on the 13th-14th of the first lunar month, will be marked this year with a festival titled Về Miền Quan Họ (Visiting Quan Họ Region). 

 Vietnam and Cambodia expect the State visit by Party General Secretary and President of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong will help build a new vision for bilateral cooperation towards 2030 and beyond, said Ambassador Vu Quang Minh.

 Vietnam leaves imprints on major multilateral events

 US President Donald Trump will arrive in Hanoi on Tuesday to a second face-to-face gathering with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and meetings with Vietnamese leaders.

Global manufacturers are speeding up their pace of FDI diversion and relocation from China to Vietnam as a result of the US – China trade war, according to HSBC in its latest report. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Assistant coach to Park Hang-seo Lee Young-jin will be in charge of the U22 team at the upcoming Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines in November, 

 Reporters covering the US – DPRK summit, which is slated for February 27 and 28, will be served free bus service between February 25 and March 2.

 The second meeting of US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, which is scheduled to take place in Hanoi this week, will leave positive impacts on Vietnamese tourism and real estate market, according to Savills Vietnam. 

 South Korea’s new unicorn Woowa Brothers, operator of the country’s leading food delivery platforms Baedal Minjok, has acquired Vietnam’s food delivery company Vietnammm, Deal Street Asia reported. 

 Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has asked South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor Company to promote technology transfer to its local partners in Viet Nam and increase its localisation rate to a minimum of 40 per cent.

 Less than 1 per cent of total mobile subscribers have registered for mobile number portability (MNP) services after three months of deployment, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications.

 Viettel is among only 50 telecom companies in the world to successfully deploy the narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT), a technology developed for devices supporting IoT connectivity.

 The Nordic model is an ideal one for Viet Nam to learn from in the process of redefining its economic and development models, Dr Vu Thanh Tu Anh, dean of the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management.

 Transparency and quality of information disclosure are the main concerns for market members, public companies and auditors to lure a larger amount of capital in 2019, business executives have said.

 Gold prices have room to grow this year as economic and geographical uncertainties around the world may lure investors into gold as “safe haven”.

 Fourteen Vietnamese banks have recently been named in The Asian Banker’s AB500 ranking and survey of Asia Pacific’s strongest banks in 2018.

 With peer-to-peer lending becoming increasingly popular in Viet Nam, experts said a legal framework is needed to regulate the activity to prevent loan-sharking.