Maritime Bank approved to implement Basel II standards

The State Bank of Viet Nam has approved Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MSB) to apply the Basel II standards, which are recommendations on banking laws and regulations issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Government urged to help grow private sector

Private Vietnamese firms have asked the Government to push administrative reform and build a favourable trade and investment climate to make Việt Nam one of the best places to do business in ASEAN and meet the standards of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Vietnamese firms urged to make use of CPTPP

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) submitted a Decree on preferential export tariffs and special preferential import tariffs of Việt Nam under the CPTPP from the period January 14, 2019 to December 31, 2022.

Solutions sought to accelerate disbursement of ODA

The ODA National Steering Committee held a meeting with donors in Hà Nội yesterday to seek solutions to speed up the disbursement of ODA capital and preferential loans, which has showed signs of slowing down in recent years.

Petrol prices sharply reduced

The retail price of RON 95 dropped by VNĐ1,085 to a maximum of VNĐ20,134 (US$0.86) per litre at 3pm on Monday, the ministries of Industry and Trade and Finance announced.

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