Helicopters used for spraying pesticides, fire fighting, filming, taking photos and topography are not subject to special consumption tax.

The Asia – Africa Market Department, under Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), has made some recommendations for Vietnamese enterprises when exporting watermelons to China.

You’re ready to start investing. It might seem like a small step, but years from now you’ll look back and realise how meaningful this moment was to your financial future. This could be the defining decision that helped you achieve your financial dreams.

Supermarkets are the top choice for consumers seeking to buy essential products, stationery or household goods followed by convenience stores (including groceries), a survey by the High Quality Vietnamese Product Business Association has found.

Việt Nam needs to update its legal framework related to foreign investment amid the new context of the fourth industrial revolution and capital flow changes due to the trade war, a conference heard in Bình Dương yesterday.

The business environment in Thái Bình Province has improved and the large investments into agriculture in the locality are vivid evidence of this.

Gold selling prices witnessed an increase at some stores while in others unchanged on God of Wealth Day, the 10th day of the Lunar New Year, which fell on February 14 this year.

Vietnamese shares extended gains for a fourth day on Thursday on the wings of realty and consumer staple firms, despite rising selling pressure.

The southern province of Bà Rịa – Vùng Tàu yesterday issued licences to seven projects and green lighted two others with the nine having a total investment of over VNĐ12.5 trillion (US$548 million).

Interest rates for Vietnamese đồng deposits would remain stable or even decline over the next few months, analysts from Saigon Securities Inc. (SSI) forecast.

Some banks are putting assets secured with non-performing loans worth hundreds of billions of Vietnamese đồng up for auction in the first days of the Lunar New Year to speed up the resolution of bad debts.

The Government has issued a new decree to facilitate business conditions for offshore indirect investment, credit information activities and intermediary payment services under the management of the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV).

On Thursday, Artpresto Việt Nam Co., Ltd, a member of Japan’s Bandai Namco Group, started construction on a packaging factory in the northern province of Hà Nam.

Việt Nam’s shrimp exports to South Korea are likely to rise 30 per cent year on year to approximately US$500 million in 2019, the Việt Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has predicted.

Twenty Vietnamese enterprises will showcase their products at the 24th edition of Gulfood – the world’s largest annual food and beverage trade exhibition – in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, from February 17-21.

Gold selling prices witnessed an increase at some stores while in others unchanged on God of Wealth Day, the 10th day of the Lunar New Year, which fell on February 14 this year.

Sales of Hòa Phát construction steel in the first month of this year hit 250,000 tonnes, a 27 per cent year-on-year rise and equal to record sales in October 2018.

The boom in digital technologies in recent years has speeded up the evolution of the retail industry and changed buying habits. Lê Thị Thùy Trang, director and head of retailer vertical at Nielsen Vietnam, speaks to Việt Nam News reporter Xuân Hương about the status of the industry, its trends and more.