Local carrier Vietjet has announced a special offer of 85,000 discounted tickets priced from zero dong upward for domestic and international routes connecting with Phu Quoc Island of Kien Giang Province.

Ikigai Vietnam Commercial Joint Stock Company and CP-Meiji, owned by Thai corporation Charoen Pokphand Foods, has signed a strategic partnership agreement to give Ikigai Vietnam the exclusive right to distribute Meiji’s dairy products (except milk powder) in the Vietnamese market.

The HCMC Ballet, Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will present a concert at the Saigon Opera House on August 3 in cooperation with the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA). 

Apart from epidemics, difficulties in exports, especially those to China, are also an important factor for the fall in Vietnam’s agriculture growth in the first half of this year. These difficulties are the aftermath of many factors, but the subjective factor plays a very important part.

Stocks in the local market are expected to seesaw next week, as market liquidity may rise sharply before the main index moves toward the resistance level of 1,000 points, according to securities firms.

Vietnam became the world’s seventh largest market for robots in 2017, and the demand from companies looking to use robots to modernize production remains strong, according to speakers at a discussion on smart factories held in HCM City this week.

High school students in Hanoi have submitted 35 films to a filmmaking contest co-organized by the Hanoi Department of Education and Training and the Japanese Embassy.

Many users of Vietnam’s social network Gapo, which began operating on July 23, have complained that they could not log into their accounts, or their connections were interrupted.

Three Vietnamese singers, Noo Phuoc Thinh, Dong Nhi and Trong Hieu, will perform at a music festival in Hanoi on July 28.

China remains the largest source market for Vietnam's tourism, but the average spending of each Chinese tourist is only at the 8th place among Vietnam’s top ten source markets to reach over VND19 million, which is VND7 million lower than that of each South Korean visitor and equivalent to 52% of Australian tourists.