Việt Nam News

Christmas they say, is a time for giving. But for many businesses around the country, it is prime time to receive as well.

According to the Ministry of Finance, the transformation plan has lagged behind schedule set for 2015-20 period as the number of successfully-transformed units accounts for only 14.5 per cent.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged local firms to point out the difficulties their operations were facing, pledging the Government’s continued efforts to improve the business climate and stimulate business development.

Large livestock enterprises should keep pork prices in check despite limited supplies on the domestic market due to African swine flu, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường on Sunday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged Việt Nam's agricultural sector to improve its production quality and expand markets to other countries, especially the EU, next year.

The VN-Index gradually approached 960 points on Monday, marking a third straight day of gains.

Daegu Bank of the Republic of Korea (RoK) is preparing to open a branch in HCM City after getting the green light from the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV).

T&T Group proposed investment for Hải Lăng liquefied natural gas (LNG) electricity centre with total capital of US$4.4 billion in a meeting with the the Quảng Trị People’s Committee last week.

Start-ups have been advised to apply digital strategies in order to obtain growth, a workshop heard in Hà Nội recently.

As per the data, the country enjoyed a trade surplus of more than $10.6 billion during the period.

There are currently only 10 FDI enterprises listed on local exchanges compared to the tens of thousands of FDI firms operating in Việt Nam.

Việt Nam has potential of aquatic resources for the development of exploitation, farming and livelihoods for people. However, the fisheries sector faced such challenges as depletion of aquatic resources at sea and inland areas, plastic waste pollution and degradation of aquatic ecological systems, said Phùng Đức Tiến, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Around the time he first started, the company employed as many as 700 people. Today that number is around a dozen, and Ngọc is not one of the lucky ones.

Cigarette smuggling is rising in the year-end period and it is not easy for the state agents to fight it in southwester provinces and cities such as Long An and HCM City.

The foreign exchange market is witnessing an unusual phenomenon: the đồng is not just steady against the US dollar but also 0.16 per cent up from its rate at the end of late 2018.

Developing infrastructure is an indispensable trend that the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu is following to achieve the goal of comprehensive development, the provincial People’s Committee has said.

The EU is a potential market for Việt Nam's shrimp industry next year because it is the largest shrimp market in the world, while the shrimp production of this bloc has not met its demand, according to domestic seafood experts.

With less bad news expected in the short term and market sentiment stabilised, Vietnamese shares are widely expected to climb next week but growth will be moderate.