Việt Nam News

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has recently issued the working regulations of the Steering Committee for Việt Nam’s Industrialisation Strategy within the Việt Nam – Japan co-operation framework until 2020 with a vision to 2030.

Việt Nam’s aviation market is forecast to increase rapidly, fuelled by new growth from the participation of more private carriers and improved infrastructure.

The Government will soon issue a decision to allow a pilot implementation of peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in the country before officially developing laws for the new form of business, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ said.

About 2,500 delegates are expected to participate in the Vietnam Online Business Forum 2019 in three major cities of Hà Nội, Đà Nẵng and HCM City this month, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Vietnam E-commerce Association (VECOM).

Businesses must step up to the plate and obtain green product certification as more and more people are eating healthier around the world.

Commercial banks lifted Vietnamese markets on Tuesday as investors got a boost from positive changes on global bourses.

Capitalising on the advantages and opportunities brought by economic integration to achieve a breakthrough in economic development and promote the business community and institutional reform will be Việt Nam’s focus in the near future, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

A conference was held in Toronto, Canada on Monday to help small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the country study the Vietnamese market and take advantage of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Wyndham Hotel & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchising company, officially launched its first hotel in Việt Nam with the opening of Wyndham Garden Hanoi.

State budget revenue in the first two months of this year totalled nearly VNĐ246.5 trillion (US$10.6 billion), representing a rise of 18.2 per cent over the same period last year and equivalent to 17.5 per cent of the Government’s target for the full year.

The Vietnamese đồng would be steady next months, buoyed by positive foreign inflow and reasonable gap between interest rates of the đồng and the US dollar as well as the stability of the Chinese renminbi, experts said.

Chicago-headquartered Hyatt Hotels Corporation recently announced that a Hyatt affiliate entered into an agreement with Vietnamese diversified corporation BIM Group to develop 100-key Park Hyatt Phu Quoc hotel as well as 65 residences in Phú Quốc Island, Kiên Giang Province.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued Circular No 04/2019/TT-BCT setting import quotas for salt, sugar and eggs for the period from April 17 to December 31, 2019.

Việt Nam’s steel market was forecast to be in good shape in the first quarter of this year despite high prices, said the Việt Nam Steel Association (VSA). 

Vietnam International Bank (VIB) has set a target of earning a pre-tax profit of VNĐ3.4 trillion (US$146 million) in 2019, up 24 per cent year-on-year.

Orders for furniture exports have risen strongly so far this year over the same period last year as demand has risen, according to Huỳnh Quang Thanh, chairman and CEO of Bình Dương-based Hiệp Long Fine Furniture Company.

Researchers of the Central Institute of Economic Management (CIEM) have proposed the Government to levy special consumption tax rate for bio-fuel equal to 50 per cent of the tax rate for gasoline.

Over 50 leading US companies has set foot in the capital city to explore business opportunities in activities organised by the US-ASEAN Business Council (US-ABC).