Cần Thơ will focus on investment and trade promotion activities in key countries, including the United States, Japan and South Korea, this year.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Wednesday asked the National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) to enhance its business efficiency and contribute to ensuring energy security and asserting national sovereignty.

The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) has decided to set preferential loan interest rate at five per cent for purchase, rent or hire of social housing projects in 2018.

Việt Nam’s economy could achieve a growth rate of 7 per cent in 2018, despite a decline in the mining industry.

Phú Mỹ Fertiliser Plant, a member of the Petrovietnam Fertiliser and Chemicals Corporation (PVFCCo), began operation after more than one month of overall maintenance.

Credit growth will be 18 per cent in 2018 and the good growth rate will have positive impact on the business result of the entire banking sector, Vietcombank Securities Company (VCBS) forecast.

Việt Nam gained its highest ever seafood export value of US$8.32 billion in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 18 per cent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Foreign traders not present in Việt Nam will have the right to export or import under Vietnamese law and international treaties that the country has signed. This is one of several positive changes expected in the business environment as a set of new policies that take effect early this year.

The HCM City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development plans to set up 10 safe farm produce markets that will open every weekend to bring together producers and buyers of clean agriculture products.