The State Bank of Vietnam has ordered financial institutions and other organisations providing payment brokerage services not to conduct cross-border transactions in cryptocurrency.

 The former director of the Tay Do branch of Vietcombank in Can Tho, Nguyen Minh Chuyen, has been prosecuted for swindling VND1.44 trillion ($64 million) from the bank.

 Vietnamese budget carrier VietJet and the Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) of the Australian state of Queensland signed a cooperation agreement in Sydney on March 16 to open a direct route connecting Ho Chi Minh City and Brisbane.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said he believes a new wave of investments, both direct and indirect, from Australia, will land in Vietnam for win-win benefits, following the freshly-established Strategic Partnership.

Ho Huy, chairman of Mai Linh Group, compares his company to a boat wobbling amid waves caused by stiffening market competition. However, Mai Linh has embraced a comprehensive restructuring to be able to steadily steam ahead.

 The Vietnamese e-commerce market contains unexpected elements this year, including Tiki receiving investment from a Chinese partner, Shopee flying up, Lazada getting support from Alibaba, and Cho Tot announcing new ambitions.

 Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation has gained an investment certificate to develop Van Phong 1 thermal power project worth US$2.58 billion in the central coast province of Khanh Hoa.

Steep declines in tra fish exports to the EU and the US have been offset by strong growth in shipments to China and Brazil, but industry insiders warn the sector may face a crisis if the situation remains unchanged.

 Viet Nam has made great strides in integrating with the global economy and accomplished a great deal as its rapid economic growth in the past 30 years testifies.

 CEO of budget airline Vietjet Air Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao is Vietnam’s only representative to be named on the 2017 Forbes list of the world's 100 most powerful women.

 Vietnam’s economy continues to show fundamental strength, according to the East Asia-Pacific Economic Update released by the World Bank via a teleconference connecting regional countries, including Vietnam, on October 4. 

 The national industrial production index (IPI) expanded by 7.9 percent in January-September, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported. 

 A Free Trade Agreement between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) took effect in December 2015. However, Vietnamese businesses are finding it more and more difficult to penetrate the market as the RoK tightens up on rules and regulations.

 Businesses must remove their headquaters, factories and other properties from defense land west of Da Nang Airport to hand over the premise to Air Force Division 372 from September 29 to October 6.

A new draft law allowing longer foreign leaseholds of property in special economic zones should give a further boost to the real estate market.

 SCG Concrete Roof Vietnam Ltd., a subsidiary of SCG Cement-Building Materials has become the first concrete roof tile manufacturer in Vietnam to be granted with three major certifications for its management system.

 Muaythai fighter Nguyen Tran Duy Nhat will present Vietnam at the Asia Fighting Championship in Singapore on Saturday.

 Loic Desriac of the team Bike Life VDC triumphed yesterday in the 10th stage of the VTV International Cycling Tournament, or Ton Hoa Sen Cup.

Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung will be the chairman of a special state evaluation council to evaluate the feasibility study report of the Long Thanh International Airport project

Da Nang has made a proposal to change the function of six projects, and reduce the scale of 10 others, in accordance with the master plan on the Son Tra National Tourism Complex in the Son Tra Peninsula.