Over 100 entrepreneurs from Việt Nam and South Korea gathered at a business conference held in the capital on Wednesday to seek new co-operation opportunities.

Việt Nam highly values and has made active contributions to ASEAN – China cooperation, stated Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ at the opening ceremony of the 15th China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (CABIS) and China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) in Nanning city, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China, on September 12.

ASEAN Unity and economic integration are the key factors that can help its members as the trade tensions between the United States and China escalate, participants in a panel on the geopolitics of trade agreed at a session of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN yesterday.

Share prices on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchanged rose for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday thanks to the activity of foreign traders and strong growth from oil and gas stocks.

Vietcombank has decided to pay shareholders a cash dividend at a rate of 8 per cent after last year’s business results.

Asia had strong fundamentals for growth in the long-term despite trade tensions, dollar strenthening and demographic challenges were casting a shawdow on the outlook for strong global growth.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc expressed his delight at the growing co-operation between Việt Nam and the WEF, which has met interests of both sides, at a meeting on Wednesday with the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Klaus Schwab, who is in Hà Nội to co-chair the WEF on ASEAN 2018.

The growth of entrepreneurship within Bến Tre Province and the Mekong Delta has been flourishing in recent years, officials said during a conference on start-ups held in Ben Tre City on Tuesday.

More than 1,000 participants joined the open forum: ‘ASEAN 4.0 for All?’, which officially kickstarted the World Economic Forum (WEF) on ASEAN 2018, on Tuesday morning in Hà Nội.