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Netizen in hot water for posting more han 200 fake news about COVID-19 pandemic

A key opinion leader ignored regulations and released more than 200 statuses containing disinformation, reaching thousands of gullible readers.

Public investment disbursement is an important channel for growth: PM

Boosting public investment disbursement is an important channel for the country’s socio-economic growth, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at a meeting in Hanoi on March 27 to prepare for a teleconference between the Government ...

No end to woes of local textile and garment industry

While the supply of raw materials from China is recovering after a month of suspension, textile and garment businesses find that they have moved out of the frying pan into the fire as the COVID-19 ...

Corporate 08:46

Siemens helps speed up design and production of medical components in COVID-19 times

World News 09:34

Fake cures, risky rumours: COVID-19 misinformation hits home

Corporate 22:09

COVID-19 affects Vietnamese consumers’ FMCG purchase behaviours

Nosediving oil price deals a blow to state budget

Novaland continues receiving capital from international institutions

COVID-19 patient No.33 discharged from hospital in Thua Thien-Hue

Corporate

CEO Talk

Biz Link

GE

Nosediving oil price deals a blow to state budget

Though the steep dive in global crude oil price will benefit domestic logistics and production, it will not be good for local petrol firms and the state budget.

Katalon tops 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Software Test Automation

MoLISA proposes $843m bailout package for businesses during COVID-19

Investing

M&A

Outbound Investment

30 years of FDI

Duc Giang Chemical to develop $521 million project in Thanh Hoa

Duc Giang Chemical Group JSC plans to develop the Duc Giang-Nghi Son chemical complex with the total investment capital of VND12 trillion ($521.74 million).

Free trade agreement a priority for Swiss ties

As one of the large European investors in Vietnam, Switzerland currently negotiates a free trade agreement with Vietnam so that its companies can invest more in untapped fields in the Southeast Asian country.

Polish-Vietnamese trade ties intensify

Vietnam is rising as a potential trade partner for exporters from Poland ahead of the highly-anticipated EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement. Piotr Harasimowicz, chief representative officer at the Polish Investment and Trade Agency, told VIR’s Thanh ...

Vietnam attracts $4 billion FDI capital despite COVID-19 crisis

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the globe, Vietnam has managed to woo $4 billion worth of FDI capital in the first quarter.

Topics

Green Growth

Energy Efficiency

Largest wind turbines in Asia to power Vietnam

Ninh Thuan to get Southeast Asia’s largest solar power plan

Wind power investors yearn for preferential FiT deadline extension

Salinisation struggle tackled head-on

Property

Green Buildings

Industrial Properties

Novaland continues receiving capital from international institutions

Novaland on March 26 announced the second disbursement of $101 million from its $250 million inaugural syndicated secured term loan facility (facility).

Homestay owners lose customers amid COVID-19 pandemic

Flexible offices rise in the pandemic season

Condotels to flare up with legal fine-tuning

New Vinhomes subsidiary to crack open industrial park sector

Money

Insurance

Smart Payment Trends

Shares rise up despite falling macroeconomic metrics

Shares gained for three consecutive sessions on Friday, retracing some of the early week’s losses despite the record 10-year low GDP growth released during the day.

Still modest results with state capital divestment

Nguyen Duc Chi, chairman of State Capital Investment Corporation, sheds some light on the slow state capital divestment and measures to better the situation.

Securities service fees cut does help, but more drastic measures in need: experts

13 mln USD raised through G-bond auctions

Hanoi Tax Department launches March Companion Month to support tax payers

Opportunities from tickers with high dividend yield

Timeout

Travel

Hotels & Restaurants

The Insider

Entertainment

Lifestyle

Vietnam greets 3.7 million foreign visitors in Q1

Vietnam welcomed nearly 3.7 million international tourists in the first three months of 2020, down 18.1 percent from the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Travel

Vietnam greets 3.7 million foreign visitors in Q1

Hotels & Restaurants

Anantara Hoi An offers home delivery for pizzas from its signature restaurant

The Insider

Working together with giants toward sustainable development

Lifestyle

Over 5.2 million USD donated to aid COVID-19 fight in one day

Sports

Athletes qualified for Tokyo 2020 will keep 2021 spots

McLaren F1 staff back home after quarantine in Melbourne

MotoGP grapples with problems of an interrupted season

Wimbledon could be postponed or cancelled, says AELTC

Videos

Vietnamese motherland embraces every citizen

Enterprises ensure employees’ safety amidst Covid-19 outbreak

COVID-19 fight: Together we win

Vietnam ranks 96th in global talent competitiveness index

EVFTA, EVIPA offer prospect of high quality FDI to Vietnam

Hoi An among world’s most romantic places

Photos

Abandoned hospital – a colossal waste of resources

Abandoned for 23 years now, Hanoi American International Hospital is a colossal reminder of wasted resources and an unreliable investor.

Military soldiers take care of people under quarantine

Mekong Delta province faces severe drought

Infographics

Vietnam attracts 8.55 billion USD of FDI in Q1 (Infographics)

COVID-19 laboratories licensed by Ministry of Health (Infographics)

Society

Swing for the Kids

CSR

Three more patients cured from COVID-19

Patient 35 left the hospital this morning (March 27) in good cheer, while the two British patients covered their faces with sheets of paper.

Netizen in hot water for posting more han 200 fake news about COVID-19 pandemic

A key opinion leader ignored regulations and released more than 200 statuses containing disinformation, reaching thousands of gullible readers.

COVID-19 patient No.33 discharged from hospital in Thua Thien-Hue

Vietnam’s COVID-19 patient No 33, a UK man, was discharged from Hue Central Hospital, the second branch in Phong Dien district, the central province of Thua Thien – Hue, on March 28 after full recovery.

Hanoi cuts 80 percent of bus trips over COVID-19 fears

HCM City approves 2.75 trillion VND package for COVID-19 fight

Ho Chi Minh City issues support for workers impacted by COVID-19

World News

China's COVID-19 epicentre Wuhan eases travel restrictions after lockdown

The Chinese city of 11 million people that was Ground Zero for what became the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened on Saturday (Mar 28), after more than two months of almost total isolation.

Switzerland coronavirus cases top 10,000

Switzerland on Thursday (Mar 26) joined the small group of countries to declare more than 10,000 officially-recorded cases of COVID-19, as it launched plans to start tracking crowd build-ups through mobile phone data.

World leaders to hold crisis talks as COVID-19 toll tops 21,000

World leaders are to hold online crisis talks Thursday (Mar 26) on the coronavirus pandemic that has forced three billion people into lockdown and claimed more than 21,000 lives.

Fake cures, risky rumours: COVID-19 misinformation hits home

From being duped into taking poisonous "cures", to watching businesses crumble and avoiding life-saving medication, people are suffering devastating real-world impacts of a deluge of online virus misinformation.

More than 1,000 US coronavirus deaths, near 70,000 cases

The number of deaths caused by the novel coronavirus rose to 1,031 in the United States on Wednesday (Mar 25), with 68,572 confirmed cases nationwide, a tracker run by the Johns Hopkins University showed.

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Securities service fees cut does help, but more drastic measures in need: experts

Experts optimistic about industrial property prospects

Firms to adhere to anti-dumping law

New penalties illustrate resolve to wipe out false info

Children less sick from COVID-19, but may still spread the coronavirus: Experts

Transfer pricing focus in store for overseas-invested groups

Heeding the implications of force majeure in Vietnam

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Le Trong Minh

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Bui Duc Hai, Nguyen Van Hong and
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Vietnam Investment Review under the Ministry of Planning and Investment
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