Việt Nam News

Hitachi Asia Ltd on Thursday announced the appointment of Kazunori Sudo as general director of Hitachi Asia (Việt Nam) Co Ltd.

Việt Nam spent US$927 million on importing 1.66 million tonnes of petroleum products over the past two months, surging 2 per cent in volume against the same period last year.

The Public Procurement Agency (PPA) on Wednesday launched a project to improve the skill of its staffs implementing public procurement and enabling small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to participate.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group this month has plans to sign an agreement with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) to gauge consumer satisfaction, the group said.

Japan’s Deloitte and Germany’s Roland Berger consulting firms are interested in offering their services to draw up Việt Nam’s steel sector master plan.

From now until the end of June, Mobile World plans to launch 10-15 stores in neighbouring countries

Singapore-based F&N Dairy Investments Pte. Ltd. (F&N) has registered to buy shares of Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) for the third time, asking for 21.77 million shares.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has requested network operators to withdraw and deactivate nearly 20 million pre-activated SIM cards and banned the sales of these SIM cards, however, many stores continued selling them online.

The Topica Founder Institute (TFI) held its fifth anniversary ceremony this week, reviewing its contribution for the start-up community in the past years.

FPT Information Systems (FPT IS) signed a strategic cooperation agreement on application performance monitoring and security with Dynatrace LLC and ECQ Global on Thursday.

Nguyễn Anh Đức, General Director of the Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI) and Santiago Quesada Garmendia, Director of exploration and production and gas technology of Spain based Repsol S.A. energy company had signed a cooperation agreement on behalf of their respective company.

FLC Group has nominated Vũ Đặng Hải Yến as its deputy general director and head of its Legal Department.

Bảo Việt Insurance Corporation (Bảo Việt) and the Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank) signed a comprehensive co-operation agreement in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) reached a framework agreement with a joint venture of insurance companies to insure its off-shore fishing vessel hulls this year in Ha Noi on Tuesday.

The Đà Nẵng-based beverage can manufacturer, Crown company, plans to expand its capacity to 1.6 billion cans in the fourth quarter of 2017.

More and more Canadian beef exporters are seeking a bigger share of the market in Việt Nam, Canada’s Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay told attendants of an event held in Hà Nội on Monday to introduce his country’s beef products.

All boutique hotels of Phú Quốc Waterfront that opened for sale late last week were sold out, making the beach-front hotel project a “phenomenon” in Phú Quốc Island’s resort and hospitality property market.

Iflix, a TV show and movie online service, was officially rolled out in the Vietnamese market on Tuesday.