Việt Nam News

HCM City has a number of organisations providing assistance and consultancy to small and medium-sized enterprises while banks offer loans on easy terms, but they do not make use of either the consultancy or loans, a conference heard in HCM City on October 3.

Việt Nam is taking strong actions from the central to the grassroots level to speed up the application of Industry 4.0, making changes in fields of production, business, cultural and social life, as well as national defence and security.

Việt Nam is seen as an increasingly attractive investment destination for many Korean businesses, Choi Gangsun, director of Korea-based Gyeonggi Technopark, said at the Việt Nam-South Korea Trade forum on October 3 in HCM City.

Advanced technologies and machinery and equipment used in the plastics and rubber industry are on display at the Vietnam International Plastics and Rubber Industry Exhibition that opened on October 3 in HCM City.

Recovery of some heavyweight stocks in the last minutes of the Thursday session rescued the VN-Index from a fall after the southern market index sank in the red for most of the trading time.

Việt Nam is to host a meeting for the heads of customs agencies from Asia and Europe on October 9-10 in Hạ Long City, Quảng Ninh Province, according to deputy chief of the General Department of Vietnam Customs Mai Xuân Thành.

OTTAWA – Việt Nam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Việt Nam Association of Supporting Industries (VASI) organised a workshop on seeking for business cooperation opportunities between Việt Nam and Canada’s Quebec Province on October 2 in Montreal, Canada, especially in the supporting industry.

Despite the Government limitation on the export of raw minerals, Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) still allows some to help local enterprises.

Hà Nam Province held an investment promotion conference in Seoul to seek investment.

HAGL once held 100 per cent ownership in the real estate unit. In the third quarter of 2018, HAGL Land issued 125 million shares for VNĐ13,414.63 ($0.58) per share in a private deal.

The manufacturing and processing sector led the industry sector and the whole economy with an expansion of 11.4 per cent.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) decided to officially impose the highest rate of anti-dumping duties on aluminium products originating from 16 Chinese producers.

Italy hopes to turn Việt Nam into a strategic entrance for trading and investment in Southeast Asia, especially in the field of manufacturing and processing agricultural products. Michele D'Ercole, Chairman of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Việt Nam (ICHAM), speaks to Việt Nam News Reporter Nguyễn Linh Anh on the sideline of the two-day “Machinery Made in Italy 2019” event ending Wednesday in Hà Nội.

The event, which kicked off here on Tuesday, is showcasing the Southeast region’s achievement in agro-forestry-fishery industries and its key farm produce beside to machinery and equipment used in the agriculture sector.

Experts suggested firms use more derivative instruments, such as futures and forward contracts, to minimise exchange rate risks when they can no longer borrow the US dollar from commercial banks, starting early this month.

The VN-Index failed to stay at the 1,000 point mark again as selling pressure increased sharply as the benchmark approaching the landmark.

Leading speakers from home and abroad will address the Fourth Đà Nẵng Start-up Innovation Festival on November 1.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh is calling for investment in six tourism areas, including Long Trị Islet, Bà Om Pond, Ba Động Beach, Hàng Dương, Tân Quy Islet and Duyên Hải hot mineral springs.