Vietnamese businesses should focus more on ASEAN markets to make use of the advantages created by the establishment of the ASEAN Community, Vietnamese Ambassador to Thailand Nguyễn Tất Thành said.

Vietnamese shares struggled to stay positive yesterday while foreign investors’ confidence remained low prior to the US central bank’s meeting.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta has great demand for advanced technologies to improve its agricultural production and farm and seafood processing for exports, and so seeks to tie up with countries with technological strengths, according to the Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Cần Thơ chapter.

The Việt Nam’s General Statistics Office reported yesterday that the national consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, has recorded a seven-month lowest increase since February this year and the lowest level on a monthly basis over the past 10 years.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has called on all provinces and cities to set up a centre to support businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.

 Foreign direct investment (FDI) of about US$14.4 billion was registered for new and existing projects in Việt Nam in the first eight months

The domestic agriculture industry should restructure and make transparency to develop clean food products, experts said at a seminar on developing clean food held yesterday in Hà Nội.

Hà Nội’s consumer price index (CPI) in August marginally dropped 0.17 per cent from the previous month, the city’s statistics office reported yesterday.

The Government has issued Decree No 73/2016/NĐ-CP on July 1, 2016 detailing the implementation of the Law on Insurance Business. The Decree regulates the establishment and operation of life insurance, non-life insurance, health insurance, reinsurance enterprises and foreign insurer branches.