The Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Corporation (Vinacomin) set a goal of selling about 36 million tonnes of coal in 2018, up 2.5 million tonnes compared to 2017.

 The Republic of Korea’s Jeju Air announced it would open some new routes to several Southeast Asian destinations, including Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang, between December 2017 and February 2018. 

 An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.2 on the Richter scale occurred at about 3pm on December 25 in the Vietnam-Laos border area, according to Nguyen Thai Son, head of the Dien Bien Phu Seismic Observation Station.

 FLC Group plans to invest 1.5 billion USD in hi-tech agriculture in Vietnam in the 2018-20 period.

 Contrary to pessimistic forecasts earlier in 2017, after a drop in 2016, the country’s rice exports had a successful year in 2017, with some higher-than-expected figures.

 Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) wants to sell all the assets of its finance subsidiary Post and Telecommunication Finance Company Limited (PTF) for at least VNĐ500 billion (US$21.9 million).

 Merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in Viet Nam’s real estate sector are forecast to increase in 2018, driven by the market’s significant potential, experts said.

Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) is auctioning 71,577,141 million Maritime Bank (MSB) shares in a single-batch sale on January 18 on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX).

VietNamNet Bridge - Fifty instant noodle manufacturers exist in Vietnam, but the market is controlled by three big players, namely Acecook, Asia and Masan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A plan to supervise the amount of aflatoxin, a carcinogenic mould, in food should be implemented from harvesting, processing to storing food, plants and grains to reduce toxic exposure to consumers, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Camera traps in Vu Quang National Park in central Ha Tinh Province recently captured pictures of elephants, affirming the existence of the giant mammal.

 More than 8,000 athletes from 49 countries and territories around the world are expected to partake in the HCM City Marathon 2018 which is scheduled to be held on January 14, 2018, the organizing committee said at a recent news conference.

 Denmark continues providing non-refundable official development aid (ODA) to promote Vietnam’s energy development in the framework of the Vietnam-Denmark Energy Partnership Programme in 2017-2020. 

On January 17 of next year, Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Co., Ltd. will conduct its IPO to sell 242 million shares, with the expectation to acquire VND4 trillion ($176.1 million) from the deal.

In a report to the Singapore Exchange, Thailand Beverage (ThaiBev) mentioned the acquisition deal of Sabeco and said Vietnam Beverage is expected to complete the payment to the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade on December 28, 2017.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has just released a list of 10 large enterprises in the industry and trade sectors to conduct state divestment in 2018, attracting the attention of foreign and domestic investors.

 Foreign investors are offered a maximum of 296.46 million shares in Becamex IDC Corporation (Becamex IDC) at the second auction which is expected to be held on January 3, 2018.

 The Vietnamese stock market has recently been showing signs of a revival in the market of bank stocks.

Bitcoin has been ceaselessly brought into the limelight due to its ambiguity regarding the face value as well as the potential legal and regulatory risks challenging Bitcoin “whales.”

 A dramatic change in market trends and the "fourth" industrial revolution are forcing Vietnamese enterprises to gradually apply new technologies to production.