More than 300 red lory parrots – an endangered bird found only in Indonesia – were suspected to have been imported to Viet Nam illegally earlier this week.

 Despite continuous failures from previous startups and on the edge of giving up, two alumni of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology still strongly hold on to their passion.

 The General Statistics Office (GSO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are working together toreview the methods to evaluate the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) scale of Vietnam.

 Vietnam's rice export volume is likely to reach around 6.15 million tonnes and be worth over US$3.15 billion in 2018, up 5.7% in volume and 19.6% in value over the previous year.

 With the holding of 5.23% stake in PV Oil, SK Energy is second only to Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) which is the state capital representative with 80% stake.

 Forty two percent of surveyed companies reported that they countered difficulties in applying for business licences in Vietnam, said General Secretary of the VCCI Nguyen Quang Vinh.

 The foreign-invested enterprises which have been running large, prolonged losses and large related-party transactions, will be inspected for tax compliance.

 Major Vietnamese corporations said that the regulation has discouraged them from investing.

 Rice is a crop of global significance and a vehicle for economic prosperity and climate change adaptation and mitigation, delegates heard at the 2018 International Rice Congress, which opened in Singapore yesterday.

 Effective regulations and incentives should be taken to lure FDI capital inflows into the country’s transport infrastructure as the sector is showing less attractive to foreign investors due to policy bottlenecks.

 New data from the Business Climate Index (BCI) of the European Chamber of Commerce in Viet Nam (EuroCham) shows European companies are more optimistic about doing business in Viet Nam.

Vietnam`s retail e-commerce sale is expected to reach US$10 billion by 2020, which is considered a "promising land" for foreign investors, especially those from China, Zing reported.

 The Ministry of Finance’s proposal to cut a number of investment conditions on segments like casino, lottery, and betting, if approved, will stimulate investors implementing registered projects.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has worked with the Ministries of Finance and Justice and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to propose suspending imports of cryptocurrency mining machines, said a MoIT official.

Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited Group is expecting to spend around $105.7 million to become the largest shareholder of Vinamilk, while F&N Dairy Investments continues to register an additional ten million shares of Vinamilk.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed his willingness to listen with high responsibility to opinions of NA deputies on the proposal of land lease of 99 years in the draft law on special administrative-economic units.

 The Republic of Korea (RoK) is currently the biggest foreign investor in Vietnam, and its increasing presence in Vietnam’s stock market is helping attract indirect Korean investment in the country.

Despite its failed businesses in the Vietnamese real estate market, Malaysia-based Berjaya Group has committed to invest more in Vietlott to help the firm achieve an annual turnover of VND13 trillion ($572.6 million).

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted keeping macro-economic stability, creating a favourable environment for production and business as the tasks of the Government to steer the national economy in the future in a recent article.