

Firms seek support from VN diplomats abroad
Businesses and business groups have called on Vietnamese ambassadors and trade counsellors abroad to help them promote exports.
Businesses and business groups have called on Vietnamese ambassadors and trade counsellors abroad to help them promote exports.
Vietnamese shares struggled on Monday following the decline of the Chinese market while blue chips continued to suffer from strong net foreign selling.
The country's largest power group Việt Nam Electricity (EVN) has announced it will divest from five companies in August.
The Hà Nội Stock Exchange organised 33 Government-bond auctions last month, raising VNĐ15.77 trillion (US$671 million), down 6.9 per cent against the previous month.
More than 760 luxury Mercedes GLC vehicles are being recalled in Việt Nam over faulty airbags after reports that they may be prematurely deploying in several certain conditions.
Toyota Việt Nam has asked the Vĩnh Phúc Province People’s Committee to lease 9.1 hectares of land in Phúc Yên city to expand its plant and increase its annual capacity from the current 50,000 units to 90,000 by 2023.
Indochina Hội An Beach Villas Company Limited, a subsidiary of Bamboo Capital JSC, has signed agreements with local and international companies for designing, building, construction supervision, financing, distribution, and others at its Malibu MGM Hội An condotel and villas in Quảng Nam Province.
HCM City leaders promised all assistance to businesses to ensure their sustainable growth and competitiveness at a meeting between them on Saturday (August 4).
Diversifing international markets and creating more products are the two main ways to promote tourism in the central province of Khánh Hoà Province and its Nha Trang city, an international conference heard on Saturday (August 4).
HCM City People’s Committee will equitise Sài Gòn Jewelry Co Ltd (SJC), Việt Nam’s largest gold and gold jewelry production and distribution company, in 2019.
The fourth industrial revolution offers many opportunities for Việt Nam, but also poses a number of challenges. To take advantage of Industry 4.0, the country requires strong government reforms, especially in building a firm legal corridor for the digital industry.
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp has issued identification numbers to ponds that breed tra fish under a government decree on aquaculture management that went into effect last July.
An Giang has reported exports of US$455.9 million in the first seven months of this year, a rise of nearly 7 per cent year-on-year.
The central city, in co-operation with Qatar Airways, plans to launch a direct flight connecting Đà Nẵng and Doha City in the Middle East later this year, a source from the city’s tourism department confirmed, saying that the two sides have been in negotiations to open the newest air route soon.
The global cyber security competition Whitehat Grand Prix 2018, themed Legends of Việt Nam, is scheduled to begin on August 18.
The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade met with more than 50 experts, researchers and business leaders at a meeting yesterday to discuss solutions to develop the city’s main products in the trading and services sector.
Executives from leading technology companies and officials discussed ways to speed up introduction of e-governance and creation of smart cities based on the safe use of IT at a conference in the Mekong city of Cần Thơ this week.
The 1,000 biggest tax payers in Việt Nam in 2017 contributed more than VNĐ110 trillion (US$4.72 billion) to the State budget, increasing 8.45 per cent from the previous year, and accounting for 63 per cent of total tax contributions.
Việt Nam has moved up one place to rank 88th among 193 countries in the United Nations E-Government Survey 2018.
The Việt Nam Computer Emergency Response Team uncovered several advanced persistent threat attacks on government websites in the central city of Đà Nẵng in late July.