National carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has started offering a hotel booking service on its website, www.vietnamairlines.com, from September.

NutiFood Corporation and the Swedish-based Backahill Company signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on September 11 to jointly produce dairy products and nutritious organic foods in Sweden, which will be supplied to markets in Europe and Asia.

Budget airline Vietjet Air will begin operating three daily flights to Osaka and Tokyo in Japan late this year and early next year, said an official at a Vietnam-Japan tourism seminar, on the sidelines of the International Tourism Fair in HCMC.

Vietnam was the fifth most optimistic country in the world in the second quarter of this year, a notch lower than in the previous quarter, experts said.

The GBA Oktoberfest Vietnam 2018 will be held in HCMC in late September and in Hanoi in mid-October by the German Businesses Association (GBA) and the Delegate of German Industry and Commerce in Vietnam under the patronage of the Embassy of Germany.

German violin soloist Christian Tetzlaff will perform in a concert by the Tokyo-based NHK Symphony Orchestra at Hanoi Opera House on September 7.

On the occasion of the 73rd National Day, Dam Sen Park in HCM City introduces the “Vietnam’s Impression” program from September 1 to 3, offering visitors a series of new, unique and exciting activities.

RMIT University and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to strengthen cyber expertise in a number of areas, in particular the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, and dark web.

The new Decree 107/2018/ND-CP on rice export operations, which will take effect on October 1, has yet to remove all barriers hindering local rice traders from exporting rice. The new rules are more relaxed, but they do not introduce significant changes.

Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) in cooperation with Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) has announced to implement the Monozukuri Program – Know-how to success in manufacturing and business 2018.