NS BlueScope Lysaght Vietnam will partner with Danish company, SKIOLD, in developing solutions for poultry and livestock farming as part of a strategic partnership memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on Thursday.

The central city of Đà Nẵng’s VietArt company has debuted the first coffee shop chain in the Đà Nẵng style – The Cups Coffee – to challenge giants Highlands Coffee and The Coffee House, as well as newly introduced Starbucks, in the city’s drink market.

VNDirect Securities Corporation (VNDS) on Saturday held an opening ceremony for its trading house in Bình Dương Province’s Thủ Dầu Một City, two months after it gained a business licence.

VinaCapital Fund Management JSC has signed an MoU with Korea’s Kiwoom Asset Management to offer selected products to Korean investors.

The US’s Small Enterprise Assistance Fund through its subsidiary, the SEAF Women’s Opportunity Fund, has invested in and lent to Organica Investment Joint Stock Company, one of Việt Nam’s leading retailers and distributors of organic and natural foods and beverages.

The Việt Nam Oil and Gas Group (PVN) has set targets of VNĐ612.2 trillion (US$26.3 billion) in total revenue and VNĐ31.3 trillion in after-tax profit for this year, according to the group.

Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) achieved a record sales volume of nearly 66,000 units, excluding imported Lexus cars, in 2018, marking a year-on-year increase of 11 per cent.

HDBank has awarded scholarships worth a total of VNĐ1 billion (US$43,164) to 1,000 disadvantaged children through the National Fund for Vietnamese Children’s "Spring for children" programme.

VPBank has awarded scholarships totalling VNĐ1 billion (US$43,000) to 39 students under its ‘VPBank Talent’ programme and more than 100 as part of ‘Home of Talent’.