Việt Nam News

After the opening of Japan's first 7-Eleven store in Việt Nam in June, South Korea’s GS25 convenience store chain has official announced its intention to enter the market, reported online news website ndh.vn.

E-commerce platform Sendo.vn recently announced it is collaborating with Google to digitise and offer automatic online advertising service Shop Ads to 120,000 merchants on its marketplace.

Global supplier of industrial barcode readers and machine vision systems Cognex Corporation has announced the opening of its first office in Việt Nam.

Nam A Commercial Joint Stock Bank has signed a 15-year bancassurance partnership with FWD Vietnam Life Insurance Company Ltd. to provide comprehensive and diverse life insurance products for the bank’s customers. 

Audi Việt Nam is recalling 33 Audi Q3 units produced from June 2016 to November 2016 to check and update the information control system software.

Shopee Vietnam, an e-commerce platform that provides a wide range of products, has garnered over four million listings and five million downloads since launching in Việt Nam a year a go.

In the first six months of 2017, the company’s growth in passengers on international routes rose by 130 per cent, making it the main momentum for last quarter’s growth, Vietjet said in its statement.

SWIFT has announced that Vietcombank is the first bank in Việt Nam to sign up for SWIFT GPI -- its global payments innovation initiative.

The People’s Committee of central Bình Định Province has approved investment for the FLC Cù Lao Xanh resort and villa complex in the province’s Quy Nhơn City.

The WhiteHat Drill 04 network security rehearsal this year focuses on ransomeware, which recently caused much alarm globally.

Việt Nam has a solid foundation for information technology but must constantly strive to be globally competitive, Hajime Hotta, co-founder of Innovatube and president of Cinnamon AI Labs, said at the Hà Nội technology event on Sunday.

The nationwide growth of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) slowed down in the second quarter of the year, after reaching a record peak in the previous quarter.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Saturday signed the Decision 36/2017/QĐ-TTg on the establishment of Thái Bình Economic Zone in the northern province of Thái Bình.

Real estate developer FLC Group has announced it will employ more than 100 locals for its FLC Hạ Long Golf & Resort project in north-eastern Quang Ninh Province.

Total assets of Việt Nam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) in the first half of this year reached VNĐ249 trillion (US$10.9 billion), up nine per cent from the end of 2016.

Mobile service provider MobiFone was voted by mobile users as “the most excellent 4G service quality provider” in a recent survey by the International Data Group (IDG).

The Medical Plastic Joint Stock Company (Mediplast) on Thursday put into operation the first phase of Mediplast medical plastic factory in the northern province of Bac Ninh’s Dai Dong Industrial Park.

Việt Nam Travel and Marketing Transport Joint Stock Company (Vietravel) on Friday launched direct charter flights between Thanh Hóa and Bangkok, Thailand.