Việt Nam News

The central city has proposed selling 10,000 apartments under State ownership to pay for new housing projects in 2020-30.

Chairman of Hà Nội People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung has approved more than 88ha of land in the capital city for the Formula One (F1) race, which is slated to take place in April 2020.

Việt Nam ranked fourth in the world in its Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) of 122 percentage points (pp) in the final quarter of last year, according to the Conference Board Global Consumer Confidence Survey conducted in collaboration with Nielsen, a global measurement company.

Retailers nationwide, including fashion companies, restaurants, service providers and online shopping platforms, are offering attractive promotion programmes for women on International Women Day, which falls on March 8.

Detailed support policies were needed to promote the development of social enterprises, experts have said.

Investors in Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contracts will be asked to stop collecting fees if they don’t apply electronic toll collection (ETC) by the end of the year.

Despite reaching US$1 billion in annual revenue and recording 9.6 per cent growth, the central province of Quảng Ngãi was facing a series of challenges due to unstable socio-economic development, small scale investment, slow economic structure change, an unskilled labour force and poor urban development.

Commercial banks have begun to offer loans with preferential interest rates and long repayment periods for household solar-energy projects. 

The rapid growth of the digital economy in the past few years has speeded up the evolution of the retail industry and changed consumers' shopping behaviours, requiring retailers to innovate to better serve customers’ diverse needs and provide them with better shopping experiences.

Strong cash flow poured into the market on Wednesday helping the indices reverse from the morning session and climb in the afternoon.

On busy Orchard Road in Singapore is a very famous hotpot restaurant where customers have to wait an hour or two to be served even if they had booked a table a day ago.

The second Indochina Retail Technology and Innovation Summit, a conference focusing on retail technology, takes place on Thursday in HCM City.

Japan’s Taisho Pharmaceutical Co Ltd has proposed increasing its ownership in DHG Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company by 21.7 per cent.

The 2019 Việt Nam International Furniture and Home Accessories Fair (VIFA-EXPO 2019) opened on Wednesday at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in HCM City, with the participation of 514 local and international exhibitors.

US real estate developers are turning to a new, fast-growing source of cheap capital known as EB-5 from Việt Nam, reported the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

Property developer FLC Group has proposed launching three investment projects in the northernmost province of Hà Giang, according to Vice Chairman of its Board of Management, Deputy General Director Lê Thành Vinh.

Việt Nam has five billionaires with total assets of US$13.6 billion on the recently released Forbes 2019 World Billionaires list, including two newcomers.

Việt Nam Construction and Import-Export Joint Stock Corporation (Vinaconex) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to develop new projects with CPG International, a member of Singapore’s CPG Corporation.