Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has asked relevant bodies to report a pilot plan on applying new payment services to Prime Minister before April this year.

This Mekong Delta city will be calling for investment in local logistics services, tourism, hi-tech agriculture and IT projects at its investment promotion conference slated for August 8-10.

The use of modern technologies enabled enterprises in Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces to achieve outstanding results last year, a recent survey by the Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Cần Thơ city, has found.

A spike in price for land lots in HCM City’s suburban districts has been occurring since the end of 2017 due to high demand.

The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) can take early intervention measures against weak credit institutions in the supervision process from July this year, according to a new SBV regulation.

In the period up to 2020, there will be 138 industrial clusters with an area of more than 2,620ha in the city. Of these, 52 are newly-established zones, spanning 590ha.The plan has been approved by the municipal People’s Committee.

Việt Nam’s benchmark VN-Index was steady on Tuesday as stocks were hit by strong selling and investors were concerned with the movement of the world stock market.

Việt Nam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) plans to increase its current charter capital from VNĐ15.7 trillion (US$690 million) to VNĐ27.8 trillion in 2018, the bank announced at its shareholders’ meeting held on Monday in Hà Nội.

Việt Nam is integrating increasingly with the global economy, having signed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership this month and discussing four other free trade agreements, the annual Economic Scenarios Conference heard in HCM City yesterday.