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A group of young people in Hanoi have devised an idea for having a local goldsmith make a golden Flappy Bird with the proceeds going to finance charity operations.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on March 15 presided over a conference in Can Tho addressing pressing matters to provide adequate funding for agricultural rice production and consumption.

Air Mekong is facing the risk of having their business license revoked, as after one year of halting flights, the carrier has not yet had any plan to resume its operations.

The fleet of civil aircraft in Vietnam will increase to 230-250 by 2030, in accordance with the recent civil aviation strategy approved by the Prime Minister.

The People’s Court of the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong handed down a death penalty to a former bank director at a trial on March 13.

Although Vietnam is a tropical country highly suitable for banana cultivation, it has yet to capitalise and make great headway into the regional and global marketplace.

Government policies encourage the production of low-quality rice at the expense of high-quality rice producers, affecting the country’s competitiveness, according to one expert.

The Ministry of Finance's inspection team has lost in a lawsuit for tax arrears, the judgement required that they return over VND7.17 billion to a company in HCM City.

Vietnam needs only 30-40 large banks to ensure the sufficient supply of capital for national enterprises, an official has said.

A recent survey found that many firms in Vietnam prefer to ask gangsters’ help to collect debts because of cumbersome legal proceedings, one official said.

Sacombank has just announced a plan to merge with Southern Bank this year as part of the effort to step up the bank restructuring process.

A policy to grant a 30-day visa exemption for foreign passport holders visiting Phu Quoc Island off the coast of the southern province of Kien Giang took effect on March 10.

The Electricity of Vietnam on March 9 held a ground-breaking ceremony for the Vinh Tan 4 thermal power plant in the central coastal province of Binh Thuan.

Virginia wants to work closely with Vietnam to further develop their economic, trade, investment and education ties, governor Terry McAuliffe has said.

The impacts of a Vietnam-EU trade deal were discussed at a seminar hosted by the European Trade Policy and Investment Support Project in Hanoi on March 7.

Twenty General Directors and CEOs from small and medium-sized enterprises in Japan’s Saitama prefecture arrived in the southern Binh Duong on March 7 to seek investment opportunities.

The Ministry of Information and Communications has just signed a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft, with the aim of promoting information technology development across Vietnam.

A NA deputy has put up questions about the slow disbursal of the VND30 trillion real estate stimulus package which was launched in June last year.

Approximately 10,869 companies registered to begin trading in the first two months of this year with combined capital of VND62.9 trillion, up 13.1% in number and 28.4% in value against the same period last year.