Việt Nam News

Standard Chartered Bank continues to expect Việt Nam’s robust GDP growth of 7 per cent in 2018, driven by strong FDI-supported electronics manufacturing and rising consumption.

Price stability is needed to ensure sustained growth of the cashew market and benefits for stakeholders in the cashew value chain, delegates said at the 10th International Conference on Cashew in Hạ Long City over the weekend.

The use of 4.0 technologies and digital marketing provides a competitive edge as well as brand differentiation for companies, experts said at a conference held on Saturday (October 6) in HCM City.

A big drop on Friday has signalled Viet Nam’s benchmark VN-Index may continue falling this week as investors worry about global markets and earn some profits from local stocks.

Vietjet will launch its newest international route connecting the central city of Đà Nẵng and Bangkok on October 15, the airline announced last week.

A wide range of services related to corporate design and branding will be provided by the Việt Nam-Korea Design Center (VKDC), launched in Hà Nội on Friday.

Growth in the domestic office market has continued this year and is set to remain at record levels well into the future after more than 7 per cent growth in grade A rents last year, according to Savills Việt Nam.

Local enterprises and farmers needed more information about the origin of export products because importers and retailers overseas had higher demands for traceability of agricultural products, according to experts.

Seafood producers are finding it difficult to get their products onto domestic supermarket shelves due to a lack of detailed regulations about the minimum required performance limit (MRLP) applied to prohibited substances.

A recent rise in anti-dumping lawsuits in the local steel industry has steelmakers worried.

Rising economic and trade tension between China and the US and a faster-than-expected US rate hike have dampened investors’ confidence in Vietnamese stocks.

The domestic market saw strong development in the landed property segment in the third quarter of this year, according to CBRE Việt Nam’s report on the Hà Nội property market.

The new amended draft law on securities allowing full foreign ownership at public companies and investment funds would help Việt Nam’s securities market be included in the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI)’s review list for a potential reclassification to Emerging Markets status.

The uneven quality of rubber products from ‘Made in Viet Nam’ factories is why local rubber products are cheaper than those from other countries, according to an industry insider.

The Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange has announced the list of 78 shares which are not eligible for margin trading in the last quarter of this year – with many of them under the radar of investors.

Việt Nam gained 84 points for the second quarter of 2018 in the Business Climate Index (BCI), up six points from the previous quarter, according to new data from the BCI survey released by the European Chamber of Commerce in Việt Nam (EuroCham) on October 4.

On October 4, Nafoods Group JSC and the People’s Committee of Tây Ninh Province signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a complex of fruit trees and a factory to process fruit for export.

The price of dragon fruit in the central province of Bình Thuận, the country’s largest producer of the crop, has fallen significantly in the last two weeks.