Việt Nam News

Retail businesses like food, coffee, milk tea, shopping, and fashion brands can take advantage of an ecosystem of tens of millions of users from a connected platform from MoMo.

Central Retail will invest VNĐ20 trillion (US$869.6 million) in the Vietnamese retail market in the next five years to boost business results to VNĐ65 trillion.

Those new services from Việt Nam’s major cities of HCM City and Đà Nẵng will operate one daily direct flight for each route to bring passengers from Việt Nam to South Korea’s second-largest city Busan, Vietjet said in a statement. 

As well as the current route to Seoul, people and tourists will have more options to fly between Busan – a coastal city with many unique features of South Korea and the capital Hà Nội, with three return flights per week.

Vietjet has officially launched four more services linking top destinations of Việt Nam and India including HCM City/Hà Nội – Mumbai and Phú Quốc – New Delhi/Mumbai.

Sacombank is set to hire 300 employees by the end of July for positions like personal/corporate customer service associates, insurance sales associates, transaction office staff, and IT engineers and digital transformation experts.

“Fly first - Pay later” is an 100 per cent online financial product that first appeared on the Vietnamese market, disbursed within three minutes with a limit of VNĐ10 million to buy Vietjet air tickets and flexible installment terms for up to six months.

The Export-Import Bank of Thailand has agreed to provide the Bank for Investment and Development of Việt Nam with a credit facility worth US$100 million to use as working capital and support Thai exports to Việt Nam.

The two newest routes, which will operate 3 and 4 round-trip flights per week respectively, are expected to continue increasing the frequencies in the near future to serve passengers’ demand. 

The budget carrier expects to earn more than VNĐ22.3 trillion (US$959 million) in air transport revenue in 2022

Sacombank is one of the main sponsors of the annual Cashless Day organised by Tuổi Trẻ newspaper.

After its first flight back to Nha Trang from Seoul capital on Friday, Vietjet will continue to reopen routes connecting Seoul with Phú Quốc and Hải Phòng this month, bringing the total number of routes connecting the two countries to six routes.

Samsung Vietnam on Saturday officially completed the construction of civil work of the new Samsung Research and Development Centre in Hà Nội’s Tây Hồ Tây urban area.

Construction of the DHN Gia Lai high-technology agricultural complex has begun in the Central Highlands Province of Gia Lai.

Viet Capital Securities Joint Stock Company has signed a syndicated loan facility for US$100 million arranged by Taiwan’s Mega International Commercial Bank (Megabank) through its offshore banking branch.

IHG Hotels & Resorts debuts its first resort under its upper luxury brand, Regent Hotels & Resorts, in South East Asia with the opening of Regent Phu Quoc, its first resort in Việt Nam on April 19.

Automaker VinFast on January 4 announced it will receive pre-orders for its electric SUV models VF e35 and VF e36 in Việt Nam and the US during the VinFast Global EV Day within the framework of the technology exhibition CES 2022 in Las Vegas, the US.

Vietinbank has donated VNĐ1.1 billion (US$47,513) to Vietnamese students studying in Japan who are facing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic.