Derivatives products will be available for trading in the Việt Nam’s securities market in less than a month, and institutional investors seem highly interested in the new products, reported vtv.vn on Thursday.

Social networks now rival search engines as an effective online marketing and advertising channel, gaining a significant market share and raking in huge revenues in Việt Nam and elsewhere.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) would need a transparent business environment for a fair competition rather than too much supports that would be impractical.

Việt Nam’s garment and textile exports may increase by 10 per cent this year if there are not adverse fluctuations in the global market, according to the Việt Nam National Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex).

Though the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Development Fund was established a year ago, so far only three firms have got loans from it, fund director Hoàng Thị Hồng said.

The Japanese J-Power Development Company plans to build a thermal power plant in Dung Quất Economic Zone in the central province of Quảng Ngãi, the director of the International Development Business Department of J-Power Electricity, Jahana Takashi, told provincial officials on Thursday.

A number of mobile stores in Hà Nội began removing Apple’s “half-eaten apple” logo from their shop banners following the US tech company’s request sent to Vietnamese mobile traders recently.

Three Vietnamese start-up teams of Drop Deck, Turing and BKIT have surpassed other rivals to win the Blockchain-based projects contest, local technology page ictnews.vn reported on April 14.

Shares sank further on Friday on the two national exchanges as investors became cautious over escalating global tensions.