Việt Nam News

 Globalisation promotes economic integration and fosters a new wave of bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), creating opportunities and optimism about investment and business towards sustainable development, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in Brussels yesterday.

HD Bank on Wednesday opened its 280th branch in the southern province of Tây Ninh’s Trảng Bàng town.

Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) has announced a temporary foreign ownership limit at 22.532 per cent of charter capital to prepare for a private placement.

Việt Nam’s trade as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) reached over 200 per cent in 2017, the highest level for any country with over 50 million people in the World Bank’s data set, which goes back to 1960.

The Hà Nội Gift Show 2018 opened on Wednesday, attracting the participation of hundreds of foreign importers seeking cooperation opportunities with Vietnamese businesses. 

The general director of An Bình Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ABBank) Dương Thị Mai Hoa has unexpectedly resigned from her position after just three months.

Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Cần Thơ Trương Quang Hoài Nam vowed to provide all possible support to Singaporean firms to do business in the Mekong Delta city, during a Singapore-Cần Thơ trade and investment promotion seminar on Wednesday.

The European Commission has submitted a free trade agreement with Việt Nam for approval, the first comprehensive open market deal between the EU and a developing Asian country.

 Real estate stocks might peak in the first half of 2019 or even earlier, in the last quarter of this year, experts have forecast.

More than 368 exhibitors from 46 countries and territories are taking part in the annual Vietstock Expo and Forum which opened yesterday in HCM City.

The ministries that are lagging behind in efforts to cut red tape for businesses must submit draft decrees on their reforms to the Prime Minister before the end of October, ordered the Minister, Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tiến Dũng as the Prime Minister’s working group visited nine ministries over the last two days to check their progress on administrative reforms.

Việt Nam announced national standards on chilled meat and technical requirements to meet expectations of markets at home and abroad at a press conference held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in Hà Nội on October 17.

The country’s export turnover this year could reach US$239 billion, increasing 11.2 per cent from last year, said deputy minister of Industry and Trade Đỗ Thắng Hải.

The Vietnamese Government is making concerted efforts to improve the business climate for both domestic and foreign enterprises, including those from the Europe, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on October 17.

Vietnamese shares extended gains for a second day, despite investors’ concerns about the upcoming US central bank meeting this weekend.

Nam A Bank is taking the final steps to list more than 335 million shares on the Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) this year after three years of delay.

The Việt Nam Hardware and Hand Tools Expo 2018 will be held in HCM City from November 5 to December 8 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC).

Agricultural manufacturer Lộc Trời Group will pay shareholders a dividend rate of 40 per cent in September as a reward for its positive results last year.