Vietnamese players Nguyen Tien Minh and Le Duc Phat will compete at the Orleans International badminton tournament in France on March 30-April 2.

The sixth edition of INMEX Vietnam, one of the region’s most comprehensive international business platforms for the maritime industry, opened on March 28 in the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre (SECC) in HCM City.

Vietnam ranked first at the 12th SEA Youth Athletics Championships which closed on March 28 in the Philippines.

The central bank must push up banking restructuring and settlement of bad debt to ease pressure on rate hikes and keep rates stable this year, experts agreed at an online meeting on March 28 on 2017 interest rate trends.

Nguyen Diep Phuong Tram was declared the best athlete in the National Short-course Swimming Championships, which closed on March 27 in Hue.

Vietnamese coach Nguyen Huu Thang on March 27 affirmed his team would put in all efforts to win their first match at the 2019 Asian Cup’s last qualifier.

Nearly 26,500 enterprises were created in the first quarter of this year with a total registered capital of over VND270 trillion (US$11.8 billion), according to preliminary data reported on March 27 in Hanoi by the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Enterprises Development Department.  

Vietnam added a bronze medal to its kitty at the Asian Archery Cup, which wrapped up on March 26 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Colusa-Miliket Foodstuff Joint Stock Company’s (Miliket) audited financial report for 2016 showed a 40% drop in pre-tax earnings compared with the previous year, indicating a loss of market share.

Market observers see a positive outlook in the long term for Vietnamese confectionery exports.