The European Union (EU) will offer Vietnamese rice exports duty-free tariff rate quotas when the EU-Việt Nam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) comes into effect.

Việt Nam is developing a corporate governance code for listed firms in order to help local firms attract more capital and make them more competitive in an environment of increasing regional economic integration.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has signed a decision to conduct a general economic census across the country in March 2017.

Cuba and Việt Nam are seeking to boost investments, which are still at a modest level despite the two countries’ long-standing friendship.

The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) on Monday directed relevant agencies to enhance security measures against risks and frauds in payment, following the execution of several scams recently.

Following the continuous decline over the past weeks, inter-bank rates across all tenors hit a record low, staying at below 1 per cent per year.

Việt Nam’s industrial production index (IPI) in August grew 7.3 per cent month on month and posted a 6.9 per cent rise in the first eight months of 2016, lower than the 9.8 per cent rate recorded in the same period last year due to a continuous downturn in production of the mining, processing and manufacturing industries.

While supports to enable firms to engage in the global value became pressing amid rapid international integration process, businesses were still struggling in accessing credits, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Canada’s Sun Life Assurance Company has bought out PVI Holdings’ 25 per cent stake in PVI Sun Life Insurance Company Limited to increase its ownership to 100 per cent.