Domestic pepper prices have been fluctuating abnormally from late July until now, with the VPA blaming price manipulating measures used by Chinese businesses.

The national one-door customs mechanism, first introduced   in 2011, has considerably reduced time spent on customs procedures and facilitated import and export activities. This forms an important premise for Việt Nam as it develops its National Single Window (NSW) that will have to integrate with the ASEAN Single Window (ASW).

Management over the fertiliser market must be enhanced to prevent fake and low-quality products which caused an estimated losses of about US$2.5 billion each year for the country with more than 70 per cent of its population working in the farming sector, experts said at an online conference on Wednesday.

The Hà Nội Department of Transport (DoT) is now asking for opinions on a regulation draft over the business and conditions for transportation business by auto within the city limit, set to be approved by the end of 2017, to which there have been controversial responses from taxi firms and association.

Authorities in the southern province of Cà Mau should accelerate the administrative reform process and offer the most beneficial policies for investors, business leaders have said.

Vietnamese shares tumbled on Wednesday on both local markets as investors triggered large-scale sell-offs following rising tension between the US and North Korea and false news about the arrest of a former banker.

The HCM Stock Exchange (HOSE) on Tuesday approved the listing of more than 1.33 billion shares of Việt Nam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank).

Trà Vinh Province’s Management Board of Economic Zones on Tuesday granted an investment registration certificate to two investors to develop the first phase of the Duyên Hải Wind Power Project.

The profits of the seven listed banks could rise 32.16 per cent against the beginning of 2017, if this year’s credit growth target is raised to 20 per cent.