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Foreign investors eye Vietnam’s e-wallet market
Foreign investors have poured into Vietnam’s e-wallet sector as they see huge growth potential in the market in the wake of the Government’s plan to reduce cash payments to below 10% of the total payment transaction by 2020.
Discovery Channel documentary to shoot in Vietnam
The story of Vietnamese engineers and technicians joining hands to change lives in a remote area of Africa has inspired Discovery Channel filmmakers to make a documentary featuring the hard work of the Vietnamese team and showing the impact they had on local people.
Concerns over new cancer circular
New Ministry of Health (MoH) regulations on cancer treatment for outpatients from other provinces is causing problems to hospitals and thousands of sufferers.
Project brings theatre to secondary schools
A theatre project aimed at secondary school students was launched in HCM City this week.
Van Don International Airport to open in December
The Van Don International Airport in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh is in the final stages of construction as it is scheduled to open in December this year.
Ministry detects 158 illegal scrap importers
As many as 158 individuals and organisations have been found illegally importing scrap into Vietnam as they are not certified to carry out such activities.
National domain name use surges
The total number of national registered domain names with “.vn” reached 453,979 as of last month, an increase of 9.33% over the same period last year, according to the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre.
HCM City to build more roads to ease congested south
A proposal to build a north-south axial road in HCM City running through districts 4, 7 and Nha Be through a public-private-partnership (PPP) has been approved by the municipal People’s Committee.
HCM City authorities want local firms to join global supply chains
Only 15% of around 8,000 manufacturing companies in HCM City are capable of joining global supply chains but authorities are trying to increase the number.
An Giang province develops giant river prawn farming area
Farmers in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang have bred giant river prawns on 74ha so far this year, up 40.6% against the same period last year, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.