Việt Nam News

Vietnam News Agency speaks to Iman Pambagyo, Director General of International Trade Negotiations at the Trade Ministry of the Republic of Indonesia and Chief of the RCEP Trade Negotiating Committee of ASEAN, about the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

After the sale, carried out from June 16 to July 2, Petrolimex has reduced the number of treasury shares from more than 103 million to some 88 million shares.

The benchmark VN-Index on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange inched up 0.13 per cent to end at 864.5 points, extending its rally to a fourth day with total growth of 2.63 per cent since last Friday.

The northwestern mountainous province of Sơn La is expected to export US$9 million of longan products this year.

Việt Nam’s largest refining and petrochemical firm, Bình Sơn Refining and Petrochemical JSC (BSR), asked for tax exemptions to overcome current and future difficulties in the oil industry.

Several business models in Việt Nam are heading towards the circular economy based on the principles of eliminating waste and recycling resources.

Some Vietnamese support enterprises in fields of molds manufacturing, standard mechanical components, plastic components and technical rubber are suitable for production needs of many Japanese firms.

Đức Giang Chemical Group, formerly known as Đức Giang Chemical Company, is a State-owned enterprise under the Việt Nam General Department of Chemicals, established in 1963.

The Government should build corporations with financial resources to help the domestic tea industry add value, branding and sales, said Chairman of Vietnam Tea Association Nguyễn Hữu Tài.

Rice quotas for Việt Nam under the EVFTA are expected to push Việt Nam’s rice exports up from the second half of this year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc decided to cut 50 per cent of registration fees for locally-manufactured and assembled cars till the end of this year.

Authorities have been increasing imports to contain prices, and even allowed for the first time imports of live pigs to cater to people’s preference for fresh meat over frozen meat.

Nguyễn Tiến Lộc, Director of the General Department of Customs’s Post-Clearance Inspection Department, made the statement at a conference about the fight against origin fraud on Monday in Hà Nội.

Shrimp exports to the US have been unaffected by the Covid-19 outbreak, and are expected to increase by 20 per cent this year, according to the Việt Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.

Vietnamese electric motorbikes will soon be seen on the streets of Havana, after a US$3 million deal was signed to ship scooters to Cuba.

Việt Nam's budget collection has seen a sharp fall during the first six months of 2020 at just 44.2 per cent of projected income, a 10.5 per cent drop compared to the same period last year, said the Ministry of Finance in an online meeting with Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in Hà Nội yesterday. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the Ministry of Transport to review plans for the widening of the HCM City-Long Thành-Dầu Giây Expressway and its surrounding roads and report back by the end of the month. 

The VN-Index had risen a total of 2.23 per cent in the previous two trading days.