SSI Securities Corporation (SSI) on Thursday signed an unsecured loan contract worth US$55 million with a financial institution group, led by Taiwan’s SinoPac Bank.

Vietnamese start-up Momo was recently ranked as the 10^th most well-funded tech start-up in Asia and the Pacific region by global information services firm CBInsights.

Governor of the State Bank of Việt Nam Lê Minh Hưng  issued a document early this week to ask co-operation from local authorities in expanding credit, part of efforts to prevent loan sharking.

Investor sentiment toward emerging East Asia’s local currency bond markets has improved but there are persistent concerns about financial stability in the region, including ongoing trade conflicts, according to the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) latest issue of the quarterly Asia Bond Monitor. 

The first batch of VinFast Lux cars was shipped to four continents for quality and safety tests on Wednesday.

The Indian Consulate General in HCM City organised a seminar on Wednesday to introduce the culture, tourism, cuisine and beautiful nature of India.

Delegates from Việt Nam will attend the Taipei International 5-in-1 Food Show, the largest trade promotion expo for the Taiwanese food industry, in Taipei from June 19-22.

The Ministry of Transport has chosen the Airports Corporation of Việt Nam (ACV) to invest in expansion of HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất Airport.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has posted an introduction to the benefits of dragon fruit, a key export of Việt Nam.

With these three new routes, Vietjet will be the airline with the most routes and flights to and from Cần Thơ.

Trade remedies, or policy tools to protect domestic industry from imports, are a hotbutton issue amid the global integration. Việt Nam News’ Thu Ngân speaks to Lê Triệu Dũng, director general of the Trade Remedies Authority, about the issue. 

Việt Nam’s retail market needs a comprehensive development strategy to boost domestic trade, experts said at a conference yesterday in Hà Nội.

The average retail price for power was raised by 8.36 per cent on Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Total assets of credit institutions and foreign banks in Việt Nam by the end of last year surged by 10.62 per cent against the beginning of the year to more than VNĐ11 quadrillion (US$472.1 billion).

The OTA Network, a network of game content creators, and Facebook Gaming organised a Facebook community event recently in Hà Nội, attracting nearly 200 of the hottest names in the gaming streamer and creator community in Việt Nam.

 The VN-Index managed to keep its head above the 1,000-point level on Wednesday despite selling pressure that pushed it below the benchmark during trading.

State-owned Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) will put more than 15.1 million shares of Saigon Bank for Industry and Trade (Saigonbank) up for auction in the second quarter of this year.

Digiworld Corporation has reported business results for the first two months of 2019 with revenues jumping by 29 per cent year-on-year to VNĐ839 billion.