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Visitors to the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap should take a trip to the farms in the Lai Vung area where farmers earn a living growing pink tangerine.

As 2018 brings newer and bigger FTAs, Vietnamese enterprises are faced with tough choices. They can either adapt and move up the global supply chain, or stand by while imported goods flood the country’s market.

FPT Software Company signed a contract worth over 100 million USD with Innogy SE, a member of European energy company RWE, in Hanoi on January 25.

The joint venture between the country’s leading retailer Saigon Co.op and Singapore’s NTUC FairPrice has opened its third hypermarket in the country in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 10.

Vietnam aims to raise its forest coverage to 41.6 percent and to earn 8.5–9 billion USD from exporting wood and forestry products while providing jobs to 25 million people in 2018.

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue began his working visit to Portugal on January 26, where he met with President of the Portuguese National Assembly Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues.

Four foreign investors from India, Thailand, the Republic of Korea and the Middle East registered to buy 36 percent of the charter capital at the Power Generation Corporation 3 (GENCO 3) to become its strategic investors.

Ho Chi Minh City pledges to work with Japan to deploy cooperation programmes to foster economic, cultural and educational ties and people-to-people exchanges this year, said Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong.

Either Vietnam or Uzbekistan will become the new U23 football champion on January 27, after their final match at the Changshu Olympic Sport Centre in China.

Hanoi, January 27 (VNA) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked ministries, agencies, localities and police forces nationwide to take measures to ensure safety, security and order before, during and after the final of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship between Vietnam and Uzbekistan.

Qatar took the bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship after beating the Republic of Korea (RoK) 1 – 0 in a 90-minute playoff in Changshu, China on January 26.

A workshop was held in Ho Chi Minh City on January 26 to seek ways to enhance trade between the city and Laos, and to connect businesses from the two sides.

The Vietnam - China Friendship Association in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang was set up at its first congress held in January 26.

The first Vietnam Tennis Federation Pro Tour 1 will be organised in Vung Tau city, the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau from January 28 to February 2.

Xoan Singing of northern Phu Tho province will receive the official recognition as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity from UNESCO in a ceremony at Lai Len Shrine, Viet Tri city, Phu Tho on February 3.

Foreign diplomats and representatives from international organisations, NGOs and cultural centres learned about Vietnam in a session hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi on January 25.

Ho Chi Minh City will do its utmost to strengthen the partnership with Lao localities and ministries and agencies, for their success is the city’s success, said Chairman of the city’s People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong on January 24.

Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi and Park Hyatt Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, were placed on the 2018 Gold List of the best hotels worldwide by the US travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler.

Zinc Oxide Corporation Vietnam JSC began construction of a 120-million-USD steel furnace dust recycling factory at Phu My 3 Industrial Park in southern Ba Ria – Vung Tau province on January 23.

The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE), one of Vietnam’s two main bourses, continues halting stock trading services on January 24 to test-run the market after technical breakdown occurred two days ago.