The country’s telecom revenue is estimated at VNĐ213.36 trillion (US$9.36 billion) in the first six months of the year, excluding Viettel’s business overseas, equal to 47.41 per cent of the plan for the year.

The Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP) and the Việt Nam Club for Management and Start-up on July 14 launched a programme in HCM City dubbed Én Xanh 2017 to honour social business initiatives.

 The Governor of the State Bank of Việt Nam has requested the Government to allow banks to keep the original registration papers of vehicles bought by paying instalments.

Hà Nam Province has attracted 46 projects, including 10 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, with a total registered capital of nearly US$194 million, so far this year.

The HCM and Hà Nội stock exchanges organised 32 auctions in the first half of this year, the State Securities Commission (SSC) has reported.

The southern province of Bình Phước has attracted eight foreign direct investment (FDI) projects with combined registered capital of US$31.8 million in the first six months of this year.

Vietnamese private rice exporters will be allowed to participate in the bidding for the supply contract of 250,000 tonnes of rice to Philippines on July 25.

World Bank on Thursday released its bi-annual report on Việt Nam’s economy, keeping its country GDP forecast of 6.3 per cent this year following an economic bounce in the second quarter.

Urbanisation brings rural consumers, accounting for 68 per cent of the country’s 90 million people, closer to their counterparts living in towns and big cities and to a diversified media world, according to Nielsen’s recent Rural Mythbuster study.