Việt Nam News

Bamboo Airways, Việt Nam’s fifth airline, will operate its first flight on January 16, according to the carrier.

Hong Kong-based healthcare and beauty retailer Watsons will launch its first store in Việt Nam on January 17, according to the news website InsideRetail Asia.

The Saigon Union of Trading Co-operatives (Saigon Co.op) and Saigon Co.op Investment Development Joint-Stock Company (SCID) on January 12 opened a Sense City department store on Phạm Văn Đồng Street in HCM City’s Thủ Đức District.

Food and typical products from Quảng Ninh Province are on display at the “OCOP Quảng Ninh Fair – Spring 2019” at Big C Thăng Long in Hà Nội. This fair aims to introduce and stimulate consumer interest in products from the province in the framework of the national One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme.

Dai-ichi Life Vietnam Fund Management Company Limited launched its DFVN Capital Appreciation Fund with charter capital of VNĐ75.121 billion (US$3.29 million) on Friday.

A new Vietnamese cosmetics brand has been launched in HCM City offering customers a new choice for high quality products at reasonable prices.

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.

Vietjet is giving away one million discounted tickets, priced from zero đồng, between now and Friday, the budget carrier has announced.

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’.

Việt Nam’s fitness platform WeFit.vn has successfully raised US$1 million in a pre-Series A funding round from Japan’s CyberAgent Capital, the Republic of Korea’s KBInvest and undisclosed angel investors.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV) announced on Tuesday that it has presented an Aircraft Operator Certificate (AOC) to Bamboo Airways, allowing the airline to begin commercial flights.