International experts have questioned which countries would likely be the beneficiaries of the trade war between the US and China and Vietnam remains the pointed one so far.  

Thousands of people have lined up outside the South Korean Consulate General in Hanoi after it was announced that Vietnamese citizens could get five-year multi-entry visas.

Viet Nam’s exports to member countries of the CPTPP were expected to increase strongly through now to 2030, reaching 25 per cent of the country’s total exports, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

 Vietnam’s national football team are set to face off against Curacao, a representative from CONCACAF, at the 2019 King’s Cup international tournament.

 A state-level funeral will be held on April 10 for Lt. Gen. Dong Sy Nguyen, former Vice Chairman of the Ministers’ Council and former Commander of Truong Son Corps, who passed away on April 4.

 The Commission for the Management of State Capital at Enterprises has thrown its support behind Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) as the investor in the T3 passenger terminal project at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC.

 The General Statistics Office (GSO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are working together toreview the methods to evaluate the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) scale of Vietnam.

 Four former leaders of the State-run Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin), now the Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (SBIC), have been charged with “abusing position and power to appropriate assets”.

VietNamNet Bridge - The news about land subsidence in the western provinces of the southern region has once again rung the alarm over the exploitation of underground water.

VietNamNet Bridge - Both Vietnamese and foreign banks are rushing to raise their chartered capital to satisfy the requirements of Basel II.

 Transactions on the property market in the districts of Dong Anh, Gia Lam, Hoai Duc and Thanh Tri posted an uptrend in the first quarter of this year though Ha Noi saw an overall reduction on the market, according to Savills Viet Nam in the capital.

 High growth potentials of the Vietnamese market has urged South Korean investors to make more merger and acquisition (M&A) deals with local firms to optimize business opportunities.

 The HCMC Steering Center of the Urban Flood Control Program has proposed the municipal government execute a project to build underground antiflood reservoirs using Crosswave technology at flood-prone sites in HCMC.

 The Government’s preferential policies should be extended to stages of a hi-tech project conducted only in Vietnam instead of to the entire project, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

 A group of experts from the Ministry of Rural Agriculture and Development is debating whether to keep or remove a 15-hectare sand island that recently emerges around 1.5 kilometers off the coast of Hoi An City.

A sizzling hot spell is forecast to hit the whole country in the next few days, with the highest temperatures reaching 38-39 degrees Celsius, Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper reported.

 After 10 years of operations since 2009, Can Tho International Airport has seen an international air route being put into service for the first time. The route links the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

Two weekly chartered flights will carry tourists from Indonesia to the central coastal city of Danang from June until the end of the year. 

  Vietnam’s regulations on food additives are in line with those issued by the United Nations’ Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), which has 186 state members.

 The Vietnamese Ministry of Transport (MoT) will hold an investment promotion conference next week to introduce investment opportunities in the Eastern Cluster of the North-South Expressway project in the 2017-2020 period.