Việt Nam urgently needs an effective model for managing State capital at State-owned enterprises (SOEs) to prevent loss and corruption while promoting efficiency in using State capital.

Following recent complaints that several banks in Việt Nam have stopped providing ATM services at night, the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) has ordered all banks nationwide to provide ATM services 24/7.

Bình Sơn Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited (BSR), the operating and managing unit for the Dung Quất Refinery, has sent invitations to 15 domestic and foreign investment funds in preparation for its initial public offering (IPO) in the third quarter of 2017.

Việt Nam’s benchmark VN-Index is expected to rise further this week and meet a strong test to get past the level of 730 points.

The Government will likely ease the requirement for seafood enterprises to submit declarations of conformity with food safety regulations, officials said at a conference on Saturday.

Substandard investment procedures and regulations hinder investors in major power plant projects.

Asian countries face numerous challenges on the path to development, such as poverty and inequality. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterised by new technologies like genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology and biotechnology, may make the task even harder if governments and businesses do not improve the quality of human capital resources.

Executives from around 20 companies in Eastern Germany met with authorities from five southern and central Vietnamese cities and provinces with the largest amount of German investment yesterday (Friday) to explore investment opportunities.

The ratio of non-performing loans (NPLs) at banks in the first quarter of this year was varied, according to a daily report by Bảo Việt Securities Corp (BVSC).