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E-commerce giant Alibaba filled billions of dollars in orders on Monday during China's annual "Singles Day" shopping frenzy, the world's biggest 24-hour shopping event.

Vietnam’s hospitality industry will remain attractive for the next ten years, experts told the Vietnam Hospitality Forum held by CBRE Vietnam in Hanoi.

Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung and Chairman of the Republic of Korea’s Presidential Committee on the New Southern Policy co-chaired the Viet Nam- RoK Business Summit in Chu Lai Open Economic Zone in Quang Nam.

As many as 706 enterprises, 85 percent of 832 listed companies on the Vietnamese stock market, generated profits during the third quarter of this year.

Digital transformation would push Việt Nam’s finance-banking system in the years to come, helping it catch up with global standards, said Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam Nguyễn Kim Anh.

Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has received many questions about the slow pace of a USD4.3 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fired power plant in the southern province of Bac Lieu.

The US attaches special importance to developing cooperative ties with Vietnam in different fields, visiting US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross told Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh.

US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and a delegation of senior US government officials and executives from 17 leading companies in the country began a visit to Hanoi on November 8.

Vietnam had the second lowest number of Android threats detected in Southeast Asia in the period from January to September this year, according to cybersecurity company Kaspersky.

The Hanoi Department of Taxation has made a list of organisations and individuals who have to pay personal income tax for their online business activities since early 2018.

Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has admitted challenges facing the energy sector which would continue resulting in the country’s power shortage.

The southern province of Dong Nai secured US$1.46 billion for 190 FDI projects during January-October, surpassing its annual target by 46%.

iPhone stores have received many orders for the iPhone 11, with 400 units are being sold each hour.

Ho Chi Minh City has attracted US$6.71 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first ten months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 3.4%.

Asia-Pacific’s hotel transaction volumes are expected to increase by 25 to 30 per cent year-on-year to more than $11 billion in 2019, according to research from global real estate consultants JLL.

Vietnamese chicken farmers are facing big losses as prices have sharply fallen due to rising supply.

Volkswagen Vietnam Auto Co. faces a penalty of VND20-40 million (USD850-1,730) for displaying a car containing a map depicting China’s nine-dash line claims in the East Sea at a motor show.

The US Department of Agriculture has recognized Vietnam’s food safety control system on catfish as equivalent to American regulations after three years of Vietnam having been engaged in fine-tuning food safety law and enforcement.

Vietravel Airlines, owned by Vietnam's leading tour operator Vietravel, has designated Livio Arizzi, an Italian pilot, as the company’s deputy general director.