Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has moved to put more public administrative services online to achieve a more simplified and transparent administration.

The Commission for the Management of State Capital at Enterprises (CMSC) this year will oversee the finances of 19 State-owned groups and corporations.

Household businesses may be exempted from paying fees for enterprise registration and first-time provision of information needed to become an enterprise.

The Vietnamese central bank has a number of policies, including tightening credit growth, designed to improve the health of the country’s banking system. Jonathan Cornish, Head of Asia-Pacific Financial Institutions at Fitch Ratings, talks with Việt Nam News reporter Nguyễn Thu Hà about the policies and outlook of the country’s banking system in 2019 and in the next few years

As many as 85 per cent of industrial enterprises in Việt Nam still lag behind Industry 4.0 revolution, and only 13 per cent are at the beginner level, one official has warned.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ yesterday highlighted the importance of quality management and traceability for lychee, a speciality fruit of the northern province of Bắc Giang, to meet export requirements for China and other potential markets.

Việt Nam’s largest ceramics and tile producer Viglacera Corporation (Viglacera) debuted on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) on Wednesday.

Shares were mixed on Wednesday on the two national stock exchanges due to a lack of supportive information and the risk of volatility on world markets.

The heads of six leading information and communications technology (ICT) companies will join a working group for the chairman of the National Committee on E-Government.

The US Treasury expanded the number of countries subject to scrutiny in a semi-annual report released Tuesday, but again found that neither China nor any other trading partners was manipulating its currency.

The complex includes an 80-ha farm for 2,400 breeding pigs selected and imported from the Netherlands; a 30-ha chicken breeding area; and a 15-ha plant for pork slaughtering and organic fertiliser production.

Given Việt Nam’s investment deficit in sustainable development projects, there is a growing need for innovative solutions that open up opportunities for private investment in sustainable development projects, banking experts said yesterday at the Sustainable Finance Forum in HCM City.

Private organisations will be encouraged to provide credit information services in Việt Nam to improve transparency in the credit information market, under a new draft decree.

Under the trade pact, Việt Nam’s GDP is expected to increase by 1.32 per cent annually.

All major lead firms in the garment, footwear and electronics industries in Việt Nam have adopted a policy commitment on human rights and ethical issues, a baseline study on the “Implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the Garment, Footwear and Electronics Supply Chains in Việt Nam” has found.

The market corrected on Tuesday due to strong selling pressure from IShares MSCI Frontier 100 Index exchange-traded fund (ETF).

Shipping fresh food to remote markets is always a challenge due to the damage caused by transportation, preservation and sales.

US restrictions on Huawei will not likely affect Việt Nam’s smartphone market as well as the domestic mobile phone retailers.