Production and business in the third quarter was stable and better than the second quarter, according to the General Statistic Office (GSO).

The inclusion of China’s yuan into the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s basket of reserve currencies last Saturday will impact finance across the globe, and Việt Nam is no exception.

Two US steelmakers have requested that the US Department of Commerce (USDOC) checking whether China is circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on cold-rolled steel coil and corrosion-resistant sheet by processing hot-rolled coil in Vietnam or not.

There is an abundant supply of housing, prices are steady, lending to developers and home buyers is increasing, and bad debts are low, according to a quarterly report issued by the Ministry of Construction in September.

In late September, Masan, one of Việt Nam’s largest private-sector companies, and its strategic partner, the Thai conglomerate Singha Group, officially introduced its new product, Chin-Su Yod Thong fish sauce, to Thailand.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) is pushing forward with the restructuring of State-owned enterprises (SOEs), having divested VNĐ2 trillion (US$89.7 million) from five corporations and companies since the beginning of this year.

Việt Nam needs more comprehensive policies to direct remittance to production and business, experts said at a conference late last week.

The Vietnamese business community is known as a group of hard-working and creative people, but linkages among the community’s members and connections between the business community and authorities are not developed enough to internationally integrate and compete.

The director of a bank in HCM City says lenders have no plans as of now to increase loan interest rates, though they find it difficult to cut capital costs since deposit interest rates are tending to increase.