Việt Nam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) reported a pre-tax profit of VNĐ2.443 trillion (US$107.6 million) in the first half of 2017, which is 52.2 per cent of its annual target.

Prudential Vietnam has begun to apply financial needs analysis in the advisory process while selling its insurance products.

The restructuring of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) needs to be done more efficiently so that they become engines that boost economic growth, experts said.

Việt Nam’s Index of Industrial Production (IIP) posted a 6.5 per cent year-on-year increase in the first seven months of the year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Local electronic firms have been urged to enhance compliance with established regulations, especially international labour standards, in order to improve competitiveness and to engage in the global supply chain, heard a conference on Tuesday.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution will create great challenges but also opportunities for Việt Nam to take off, a seminar heard in HCM City on Sunday.

HCM City has received more than 80 per cent of questionnaires from enterprises, the highest rate in recent years, after four months of gathering data for the first phase of the 2017 economic census.

Shares continued to climb Tuesday on the two stock exchanges, backed by strong gains of oil stocks after global oil prices recorded the strongest month of the year.

The new payment mode for transactions of Government bonds through the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) instead of through a commercial bank was launched in Hà Nội yesterday.