The general director of An Bình Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ABBank) Dương Thị Mai Hoa has unexpectedly resigned from her position after just three months.

Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Cần Thơ Trương Quang Hoài Nam vowed to provide all possible support to Singaporean firms to do business in the Mekong Delta city, during a Singapore-Cần Thơ trade and investment promotion seminar on Wednesday.

The European Commission has submitted a free trade agreement with Việt Nam for approval, the first comprehensive open market deal between the EU and a developing Asian country.

 Real estate stocks might peak in the first half of 2019 or even earlier, in the last quarter of this year, experts have forecast.

More than 368 exhibitors from 46 countries and territories are taking part in the annual Vietstock Expo and Forum which opened yesterday in HCM City.

The ministries that are lagging behind in efforts to cut red tape for businesses must submit draft decrees on their reforms to the Prime Minister before the end of October, ordered the Minister, Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tiến Dũng as the Prime Minister’s working group visited nine ministries over the last two days to check their progress on administrative reforms.

Việt Nam announced national standards on chilled meat and technical requirements to meet expectations of markets at home and abroad at a press conference held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in Hà Nội on October 17.

The country’s export turnover this year could reach US$239 billion, increasing 11.2 per cent from last year, said deputy minister of Industry and Trade Đỗ Thắng Hải.

The Vietnamese Government is making concerted efforts to improve the business climate for both domestic and foreign enterprises, including those from the Europe, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on October 17.