The Ministry of Planning and Investment has co-ordinated with various other ministries and agencies to create a programme to connect the country’s innovation networks.

Novaland Group will continue to spend 80 per cent of its resources on developing housing projects.

The HCM City real estate market will be positive from now until the Lunar New Year in early 2019, according to HCM City Real Estate Association.

Saigon Co-op, the country’s leading fast-moving consumer goods retailer on August 10 opened a new Co.opmart supermarket in Tây Ninh Province’s Gò Dầu town, the 98^th Co.opmart store in the country and fourth in the province.

The 13^th International Exhibition on Products and Supplies for Medical, Pharmaceutical, Hospital and Rehabilitation (Pharmed and Healthcare Viet Nam 2018) will be held next month in HCM City.

Four domestic carriers – Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet, Jetstar Pacific and the Việt Nam Air Services Company (VASCO) reported 26,578 delayed and cancelled flights, or 15 per cent of their total flights, in the first seven months of 2018.

Vietnamese shares ended Friday on a positive note, driven by financial-banking and energy sectors as confidence was boosted by news on State capital divestment from State-owned businesses.

 The Airport Services Joint Stock Corporation (ASG Corp) has filed to list 34.5 million shares on the HCM Stock Exchange (HOSE).

The Government plans not to license any more wholly foreign-owned banks in Việt Nam, instead encouraging foreign banks to buy weak domestic banks, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ said.