The first direct flight from the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ to Bangkok, Thailand, took off from Cần Thơ International Airport on Tuesday morning, carrying 179 passengers.

As of June 2017, the city was home 240 traditional markets, 201 supermarkets, 42 trade centres and over 900 convenience stores, the department’s statistics revealed.

The total outstanding loans in Hà Nội was estimated at VNĐ1.6 quadrillion (US$70 billion) in the first half of this year, according to the State Bank of Việt Nam’s Hà Nội branch.

Sài Gòn-Hà Nội Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SHB) has received approval from the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) to open its branch in Myanmar.

Liên Việt Post Joint Stock Commercial Bank (LienVietPostBank) has announced that Him Lam JSC is no longer a shareholder of the bank.

 Key advantages that have driven national growth will not lost much longer, and policy breakthroughs are needed to unleash the nation’s ‘inner potential,’ a senior Party official said yesterday.

In order to transform household businesses into enterprises, it is necessary to use “economic levers” rather than “administrative orders”, said Phan Đức Hiếu, deputy director of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) in a Hà Nội based conference yesterday.

The State Securities Commission of Việt Nam (SSC) will tighten the supervision of the securities transaction activities of both domestic and foreign investors in the national stock exchanges to ensure the market's transparency and efficiency in operating.

Shares fell in both local markets on Tuesday as large-cap stocks were hit by strong profit-taking from investors.