Gas and oil power plants are expected to benefit from the new decision of the Ministry of Industry and Trade that has suspended the operation of the competitive electricity generation market.

Rather than searching for hotels or looking up 11-digit phone numbers, all you have to do is think of the word “room”, punch it in on your key pad, preceded by a *, and you are put through to a five-star hotel in the centre of Hà Nội.

Advanced metalworking solutions, electronics assembly technologies and industrial grade parts are on display at three exhibitions that opened at a single venue in HCM City on Thursday (October 12).

Research findings from the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) showed on Wednesday that Việt Nam’s quarter-on-quarter economic growth in 2017’s third quarter was the highest level in seven years, though overall inflation began to increase in August and continued throughout September after a sharp decline since the year’s beginning.

Việt Nam’s logistics sector is facing with a shortage of high quality human resources and needs co-operation in training among the Government, universities, businesses and associations.

The average income per capita in Việt Nam will reach about US$3,000 in 2020 and the demand of cars will boom shortly thereafter, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)'s forecast.

Shares continued to rise on the HCM Stock Exchange on Thursday, fueled by the growth of several major large caps, while the Hà Nội Stock Exchange closed in the negative zone under high selling pressure.

Việt Nam is expected to achieve a year-on-year increase of 18.9 per cent in total export value in 2017, reaching US$210 billion, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Sài Gòn-Hà Nội Securities Co (SHS) has displaced Saigon Securities Inc (SSI) to be the leader among the 10 brokerage firms with the highest third-quarter market share on the Hà Nội Stock Exchange (HNX).