On July 20 New York Dessert Coffee bid goodbye to Vietnamese customers via Facebook and promised to "come back someday."

The nation’s agro-forestry-fishery exports experienced a year-on-year rise of 5.6 per cent to nearly US$21 billion in the first eight months of this year.

Tax authorities have been told to collect tax debts of enterprises totalling VNĐ23.5 trillion (over US$1 billion), or an 18.8 per cent year-on-year increase, by the end of July , the General Department of Taxation (GDT) reported. 

Mobile phone apps to help students study and people find houses for rent were among many innovative business ideas, products and services presented and discussed on Start-up Day 2016 last Saturday.

Vietnamese shares may extend their earlier gains this week as investor confidence in large-cap stocks has been bolstered and crude price gains may bring short-term benefits to listed oil firms.

A number of agreements on investment projects in wind power, breeding and high-end resort construction, with a total capital of nearly VNĐ9.5 trillion (US$431.8 million) were signed in the south central Ninh Thuận Province on Saturday.

The industry and trade ministry is drafting an action plan for lowering logistics costs to touch 18 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020.

TienPhong Bank (TPBank) announced yesterday in Hà Nội that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) was its new shareholder after making a quasi-equity investment of VND403.1 billion (US$18.35 million) in dividend preferred shares.

The State treasury of Việt Nam offloaded more than 92 per cent of the bonds planned for the year as of August 24, according to the Hà Nội Stock Exchange.