Vietnamese shares recovered on Thursday after dipping for two consecutive sessions, due to strong investor interest in large-cap stocks that led the market upturn on expectations of good earnings reports.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday signed a US$100 million loan agreement with China Everbright International Limited (CEIL).

Blockchain technology can bring revolutionary changes to the real estate sector in many aspects of the world market, including Việt Nam, according to Savills Vietnam’s press release.

Improvements in corporate governance and risk management are believed to support microfinance institutions in Việt Nam in catering to the financial needs of micro-enterprises and low-income groups.

Many goods imported from the Republic of Korea (RoK) into Việt Nam will be exempted from import taxes in 2018, due to the Việt Nam-Korea Free Trade Agreement (VKFTA).

Singapore-headquartered Spiral Ventures recently announced that it has invested in Vexere Joint Stock Company, which operated VeXeRe.com, the largest bus ticket and car booking platform in Việt  Nam.

The VN Index, Việt Nam’s benchmark stock index, grew 12.8 per cent in January, as it joined the top three best performers in the world in the first month of 2018, just behind Argentina (16.21 per cent) and Nigeria (15.95 per cent).

Việt Nam received 1.43 million foreign tourists in January, a year-on-year increase of 42 per cent and 12.1 per cent higher than that in December 2017, says the General Statistics Office.

GSO attributed the impressive IIP growth to the fact that domestic firms have concentrated on producing goods to meet increasing demands of local people for the Lunar New Year (Tết) holiday, which will be in February this year, unlike last year when it was in January.