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Many experts have expressed their concerns about a USD50-million sea-encroach tourism project in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the Vietnam National Brand Program from 2020 to 2030, which aims for over 1,000 products to become national brands.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has offered up to 30,000 cheap tickets on Hanoi-HCM City route.

Remittance flows into Ho Chi Minh City in the first nine months of the year were estimated at around 3.8 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 7 percent.

HCM City Department of Taxation has collected an tax arrears of VND1.5 billion (USD65,217) from a local man found to profit from Youtube.

Vietnam shows the strongest progress in trade growth potential in ASEAN, driven by improvements to its trade readiness and economic dynamism, according to Standard Chartered’s newly-published research Trade20 Index.

Viet Nam jumped 10 notches to 67th out of 141 economies on the global competitiveness ranking, according to the 2019 Global Competitiveness Report released by the World Economic Forum.

Most domestic credit institutions and foreign banks’ branches in Vietnam expect their business performance in 2019 to be better than last year despite the predicted slowdown in credit growth, according to the State Bank of Vietnam's latest survey released

Vietnam is in the process of getting a licence to export avocado to the US, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in the US.

Land of 17 agencies and enterprises will be revoked for the implementation of Long Thanh International Airport in the southern province of Dong Nai.

With cash still being the main payment mode, a youthful demographic and growing smartphone penetration, Vietnam offers great opportunities for fintech developers, experts said.

Newly-opened Bamboo Airways topped the list of Vietnamese airlines in terms of on-time performance index in the first nine months of this year, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam.

Vietnam Electricity Group has approved a VND9.2 trillion (USD396.4 million) decision to expand Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant.

Taiwan and Japan are expected to remain the top destinations for Vietnamese workers this year with 90 per cent of all overseas employees working there.

Jio Health Vietnam and Bao Viet Phu My signed a cooperation agreement and launched the Jio Premium 360 product package, a combination of digital health and health insurance.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced that it will launch direct air routes linking Ho Chi Minh City with Indonesia’s Bali and Thailand’s Phuket on October 27.

Based on the achievements of the relationship and co-operation between Vietnam and Cambodia, the heads of the two countries’ governments believe that the $5 billion target in two-way trade turnover could be reached a year earlier than expected.

Nearly VNĐ7 trillion (US$300.8 million) will be invested in building two international container terminals in the northern city of Hải Phòng’s Lạch Huyện Port next year.

Viet Nam’s digital economy is projected to reach US$12 billion in 2019 and US$43 billion by 2025, according to E-Conomy Southeast Asia 2019 Report jointly released Thursday by Temasek, Google and Bain & Company.