Việt Nam News

The Netherlands and Việt Nam are natural partners in agriculture, especially hi-tech agriculture, since they have complementary strengths, experts told a conference in HCM City yesterday.

A fair to introduce citrus fruits and safe agricultural products from Hòa Bình Province kicked off at the Big C Thăng Long supermarket in Hà Nội on Thursday.

The  Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has decided to suspend the import of plywood products to Việt Nam for re-export to the US from December 27 to prevent commercial fraud on goods' origin and illegal transshipment.

Commercial banks remained the biggest bond issuers with VNĐ79.4 trillion worth of bond issuance, accounting for 44.4 per cent of the total figure.

SWIFT247, an express service start-up, in co-operation with budget VietJetAir and Grab, now offers a quick delivery service connecting air and road transportation to customers in the central city after debuting in HCM City and Hà Nội.

Power Logics Bá Thiên Vina Company Limited and Top Intercube Vina Company Limited inaugurated the Power Logics Bá Thiện Vina and Top Intercube Vina factory at the Bá Thiên Industrial Park in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc on Tuesday.

Dozens of enterprises from HCM City and South Korea’s Daegu City on Wednesday sought investment opportunities at the Daegu Medical Tourism Roadshow in HCM City.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) is building infrastructure for the national digital transformation process, focusing on smart manufacturing and smart energy, to develop the digital economy. Head of the MoIT’s E-Commerce and Digital Economy Department Đặng Hoàng Hải speaks with Vietnam News Agency about the ministry’s action plan in this area.

Several local banks have reduced their interest rates in recent days, going against the banking sector’s general year-end trend of increasing rates to boost earnings.

New regulations and development in the global economy will have a strong impact on Vietnamese shipping, a conference held to discuss Việt Nam’s Maritime Future heard in HCM City yesterday.

Vietnamese food producers need to improve quality, adopt international standards and overcome trade barriers in other countries to boost exports, the Vietnam Food Forum heard in HCM City on November 13.

Combatting corruption was a big challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises in many countries, especially in Việt Nam where 98-99 per cent of enterprises fell into that bracket, said Vũ Tiến Lộc, president of Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), at a workshop in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

A total 237 companies on the Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) have joined the listed firms’ assessment of information disclosure for 2018-19.

Tax incentives had led to a decrease in State revenue in Việt Nam over recent years, said Nguyễn Đức Thành, director of the Việt Nam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR), at a conference yesterday in Hà Nội.

The VN-Index slumped on Wednesday as supply increased in the afternoon trading session, causing blue-chips to lose ground.

The rapid development of internet of things in Việt Nam has forced authorities and businesses to pay attention to cybersecurity, a conference heard in HCM City yesterday.

The 19th Việt Nam-China border economic and trade fair kicked off in Lào Cai city of the northern province of the same name on Tuesday. 

Việt Nam’s organic rice from Sóc Trăng ST24 was crowned the best in the world at the 2019 The Rice Trader (TRT) World Rice Conference in Manila, the Philippines, on Tuesday.