The Vietnamese manufacturing sector ended 2016 on a positive note, with the Nikkei Việt Nam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) coming second among the top three PMIs in ASEAN region.

People are investing their money in five main channels of stocks, gold, foreign currencies, property assets and savings but which of these offered the highest returns in 2016?

Garment 10 Corporation JSC (GARCO 10) is targeting a 6 per cent rise in revenue in 2017 compared to last year, its general director Nguyễn Thị Thanh Huyền said.

The State Bank of Việt Nam on January 3 announced the appointment of the new chairman of the Việt Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC).

Việt Nam is ranked fifth in the list of the world’s most optimistic countries on economic prosperity in 2017, according to a survey by WIN/Gallup, the world's leading association in market research and polling.

Viet Nam’s fruit and vegetable export in 2016 hit US$2.4 billion, a 30 per cent increase from 2015, and exceeding the Ministry of Industry and Trade's yearly target of $2.2 billion.

Shares opened the first trading day of the new year on a high note, with investors confident of bright prospect of the securities market.

Mineral exploration and mining activities are guided and governed by Government Decree No 158/2016/NĐ-CP (November 29, 2016), which elaborates on a number of provisions of the Law on Minerals.   

Việt Nam will achieve its 2017 goal of 6.7 per cent growth in gross domestic product (GDP), higher than 6.21 per cent in 2016, due to the efficiency of its reforms, said experts.