Travel companies in Vietnam are working at full capacity to serve the demands of fans hoping to watch their Olympic football team play live at the ASIAD semifinal match in Indonesia on August 29.

 Vietnam Airlines will conduct additional flights to Jakarta, Indonesia to serve Vietnamese football fans as the country’s Olympic team is making history by entering the quarter finals at the ongoing ASIAD 2018.

 Although Vietnam has made concrete efforts to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, the country’s seafood exports will likely face a bumpy ride ahead, said an official on August 23.

 Vietnamese wushu artist Hoang Thi Phuong Giang won a bronze medal in women’s changquan event on August 22 at the ongoing Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 in Indonesia.

 The HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced it has not licensed a fight between Canadian martial artist Pierre Francois Flores and Vietnamese boxer Truong Dinh Hoang.

 The International Three-Cushion Carom Billiards Tournament BTV-Becamex IJC Cup 2018 will take place in the southern province of Binh Duong from August 16-18, gathering 64 cueists from Vietnam, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Netherlands.

 The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced the launch of an investigation into the avoidance of paying anti-dumping and anti-subsidy taxes on cold rolled steel (CRS) imported from Vietnam.   

 Vietnamese enterprises need to improve their capacity to produce raw materials, components and machines of high quality to meet requirements of Japanese manufacturers in the country, experts said at a meeting held in HCM City last week.

 The Vietnam CEO Summit 2018 opened in Hanoi on July 25, drawing more than 400 delegates from leading firms in Vietnam, as well as economic, financial, and artificial intelligence (AI) technology experts.

 A good macro-economy has supported domestic growth and foreign direct investment (FDI) continues strongly. It has been a very healthy start to 2018 with solid performance across all asset classes.

 Thai Beverage drafts out various plans to revamp Sabeco, right after it takes up dominant roles at the latter’s management board today. 

 The State Bank of Vietnam’s revision of the USD selling price up to 23,273 VND on July 23, a strong increase from the rate it had kept from the month’s beginning, is a move suitable with domestic and foreign markets.

Despite high potentials of Vietnam`s retail sector, some large retailers have to scale down their initially ambitious plan on expanding convenience store chains in the market due to fierce competition and limited retail premises.

 Vietnam spent 790 million USD to import 2.43 million tonnes of fertiliser in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of nearly 22 percent in value and 1.2 percent in volume.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade has reported some positive signs in handling 12 major loss-making projects, as some of them have managed to resume operation in the context of no more rescue capital from the State budget.

 Vietnam splashed out 790 million USD to import 2.43 million tonnes of fertiliser in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 21.8 percent in value and 1.2 percent in volume.

 Maybe due to not charging viewers, Vietnam Television (VTV) is trying to recover its capital spent on buying the 2018 World Cup’s TV rights by raising advertisement prices. A 30-second slot during the finals now goes for VND800 million ($35,242).

 On June 28, as soon as he returned from Brussels, Minister of Trade and Industry Tran Tuan Anh sent a dispatch to order the immediate stopping the draft Decree that supermarkets must be open all day.

 Small lenders find it difficult to reduce cross-ownership in other banks.

 Nearly two weeks after officially purchasing the rights to broadcast the 2018 World Cup, VTV identified over 700 cases of copyright infringement, prompting FIFA to potentially stop broadcasting the next several matches.