Việt Nam News

HDBank won the award for ‘Domestic Retail Bank of the Year for Vietnam’ at Asian Banking and Finance Retail Banking Awards in Singapore last week.

More than 400 domestic and foreign exhibitors will participate in the 19th Vietnam International Medical, Hospital and Pharmaceutical Exhibition (Vietnam Medi Pharm Expo 2019), slated to be held at the Sài Gòn Exhibition and Conference Centre in HCM City from August 1 to 3.

Shares slumped on Wednesday as selling pressure hit banking-financial stocks strongly during the trading session.

The sufficient foreign reserves have been a key source to help the central bank stabilise the USD/VNĐ exchange rate.

The complex will make chemical-free products without preservatives, combined with manufacturing tours for visitors.

The country’s garment and textile sector earned $18 billion from exports, an 8.61 per cent year-on-year increase.

Việt Nam is encouraging investors from all around the world to develop its ports, according to the Việt Nam Maritime Administration.

Members of the Vietnam Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers witnessed sales of more than 749,500 units in the second quarter of this year, marking a decrease of 4.4 per cent from the same period last year.

Social media spreads information and disinformation rapidly, exerting a big influence on the public and businesses, and so the Government needs to have policies in place to manage and regulate it, a senior academic has said.

Value of the merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in Việt Nam reached US$5.43 billion in the first seven months of this year, according to data released on Tuesday by the AVM Vietnam, a co-organiser of the Vietnam M&A Forum 2019.

The PM said agriculture is one of three key economic sectors that Việt Nam needs to focus on developing, besides information technology and tourism.

Nearly 185 million shares were traded on the southern bourse, worth VNĐ4.7 trillion (US$201 million).

Trịnh Văn Chiến, Secretary of the Thanh Hóa Party Committee described the event as a good opportunity for the province to advertise advantages, saying that it marked a new milestone in co-operation between Thanh Hóa and Russia.

Gapo Technology JSC on Tuesday officially launched a “made in Việt Nam” social network, called Gapo, in an effort to shift users to a local platform amid a strong presence of global players in the market.

Viêt Nam exported 3.44 million tonnes of steel and iron worth US$2.24 billion in the first half of this year, up 4 per cent in value and 21 per cent in volume from the same period last year.

Việt Nam imported 75,437 assembled cars in the first six months of 2019, six times more than in the same period last year, according to the General Department of Việt Nam Customs.

Vietstar Airlines officially became the first multirole aviation enterprise to receive an Air Operator Certificate for the operation of commercial jets in Việt Nam.

HCM City’s industrial production grew by 7 per cent in the first half of the year, almost exactly the same as a year ago, according to the city Department of Industry and Trade.