Việt Nam News

Container shipping cost in Việt Nam has increased fourfold, even eightfold on certain high-demand routes compared to pre-pandemic level, said a logistics report by SSI Research.  

A business networking conference was organised virtually on Thursday to seek ways to boost the export of dragon fruit to India and Pakistan amid difficulties due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

VPBank has now been awarded the Achievement in Enterprise Risk Management in 2021 award by The Asian Banker for two consecutive years. The award has reaffirmed its leading position in the country’s risk management sector, comparable to the leading financial institutions in Asia.

The General Department of Taxation plans to launch the first version of an electronic tax mobile app (Etax-mobile) this month.

Bình Phước Province plans to repossess over 4,100 hectares of lands mostly from delayed projects for “national defence and socio-economic development,” its People’s Council has said in a resolution.

An Australia-funded project has chosen nine leading agritech scale-ups from overseas to enter the Vietnamese market with an aim of solving the country’s most pressing agrifood challenges, according to the Australian Embassy in Hà Nội.

The Committee for Management of State Capital at Enterprises (CMSC) has proposed merging two member companies of the Việt Nam Railways Corporation (VNR) in an effort to slash costs and improve efficiency as the industry struggles with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Banks at the end of July reported significant increases in first-half profits on strong credit growth despite pressures from the pandemic

SeABank will reduce interest rate by maximum one per cent a year for loans of its existing customers till the end of this year to share their difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The disbursed public investment declined in July due to the surge in COVID-19 cases, but it still grew 5.6 percent in the first seven months of 2021 as compared to the same period last year.

The Ministry of Finance has issued a circular providing guidelines on obligations of organisations and individuals in foreign investment activities on the Vietnamese securities market.

Flower growers in central city Đà Lạt is facing unprecedented challenges as HCM City, the southern economic hub and the city's biggest buyer, went into lockdown mode in late May. 

Việt Nam’s current account surplus is forecast at 6.2 per cent of GDP in 2021 and will narrow over the coming decade as part of a general long-term narrowing trend.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) is seeking approval from the Prime Minister to deal with the huge container backlog at Tân Cảng - Cát Lái (TCCL) Port in HCM City.

The market continued to rise on Thursday, boosted by gains in material stocks and interest from foreign investors as they net bought more than VNĐ1 trillion on two main exchanges. 

The online meeting discussed three main topics including VIB's strong business results in the first half of 2021, key business strategies that has helped VIB become the top retail bank in Việt Nam and digital banking - the future of retail business.

Businesses in Việt Nam are making all efforts to survive the fourth wave of COVID-19 which is battering the country.

Bùi Văn Kiên, deputy general director of the National Power Transmission Corporation (EVNNPT) talked to vietnamplus.vn about solutions to remove difficulties and promote the disbursement of public investment as well as production and business amid the pandemic.