The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has requested the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to review the preliminary result of anti-dumping duty administrative review on shrimp products imported from Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Demand for industrial robots coupled with the skills of Vietnamese technology firms are expected to help drive the robotics industry in the country.

 Vietnamese websites were hit by a total of 1,504 cyber-attacks in the first two months of 2018 in the forms of Deface, Malware and Phishing, according to the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT).

 Vietnamese musicians Nguyen Le and Ngo Hong Quang have been nominated for Echo Jazz 2018, a prestigious jazz award hosted by the ACT Music recording company.

 In recent years, many Vietnam industries such as textile and leather manufacturing and electrical components export face challenges and opportunities in the industry 4.0 era. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A restaurant in the tourist city of Da Lat, which assaulted two of its customers, has been suspended from operation, the city’s Market Management Board said on Thursday.

 The Vietnamese film O Day Co Nang (Here Comes The Sun) will compete at the 6th Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival 2018 (GUKIFF) from May 10 to 17.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of chickenpox cases in the south has been on the rise, with many newborn babies getting infected, doctors said.

 The Hanoi People’s Procuracy on March 7 proposed 12-60 month imprisonment sentences to nine defendants in the Da River water pipeline’s 18 successive ruptures. 

Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern said there is significant potential to grow NZ - Vietnam relationship further and she will discuss with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc how to harness the potential of the relationship.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors in hospitals of HCM City have warned of an increase in diseases caused by streptococus pneumoniae bacteria, reported Tin Tuc (News) online newspapers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A dialogue has been held between a working group of the southern Dong Nai Province’s People’s Committee and hundreds of workers of a company whose managers have fled the country.

 The ASEAN Joint Consultative Meeting in Singapore on March 7-8 reviewed agenda and events of the 32nd ASEAN Summit scheduled for April 25-28 in the island state. 

 The Ministry of National Defence announced a decision on the establishment of the Office of the Standing Agency of the National Steering Committee on the Settlement of Post-war Unexploded Ordnance and Toxic Chemical Consequences on March 8.

 The annual Binh Duong International Women’s Cycling Tournament - Biwase Cup 2018 opened in Thu Dau Mot city in the southern province of Binh Duong on March 8. 

 Official safeguard measures will be applied on DAP and MAP fertilizer products imported into Vietnam as investigations showed that domestic production has been seriously harmed by imported fertilizers.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ordered ministries and State agencies to cut above-the-line expenditures and only spend the new ODA funds on development investment during a meeting on March 8.

 Cuu Long Joint Operating Company (Cuu Long JOC) is focusing its resources to develop the second phase of the Su Tu Trang (White Lion oil field) so that it can be exploited in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Vietnam should encourage other ASEAN members to join the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, a senior official from the Japanese Foreign Ministry said at the Ministerial Conference of the OECD in Tokyo on March 8.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan proposed that the World Chess Federation design suitable cooperation forms to help the city boost the development of the sports, especially in schools.