Việt Nam News

US-based AES Corporation wants to invest in Sơn Mỹ 2 thermal power plant in the central province of Bình Thuận under the form of Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT).

With the appointment, the position of the ministry’s fifth deputy minister has been filled after it was left vacant for nearly a year due to the dismissal of former deputy minister Hồ Thị Kim Thoa.

 Cuba has emerged as the third-largest investment destination for Vietnamese enterprises after Laos and Cambodia. 

A seminar was held in Hà Nội on May 17 to collect feedback on the draft decree on a national one-stop shop mechanism and specialised inspection of exports-imports. 

 HCM City is expected to have a stable electrical supply during the summer, according to the HCM City Power Corporation (EVN HCMC).

The human resources training quality for information, communications and technology (ICT) needs to be improved quickly amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution, said Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tâm.

Wholesale supermarket MM Mega Market Vietnam has exported more than 100 tonnes of Vietnamese agricultural products for selling through 700 Big C malls in Thailand, where the two retailers share a parent.

An expected rise in demand for organic fertilisers has sparked many companies to invest more in production.

Some 20 years after the Asian financial crisis brought many Southeast Asian nations to their knees, business sentiment is buoyant in a region that now functions as one of the primary engines of global growth, according to the results of our inaugural Business Barometer: OBG in ASEAN CEO Survey.

Shares plummeted on tumbled for the second session in a row on Thursday as strong selling pressure hit many large-caps during most time of the trading session and turned stronger in the last minutes.

Telecom and internet providers in Việt Nam have recorded US$6.1 billion in revenue and created more than 851 jobs, experts said at a forum on enterprises in the digital age held in Hà Nội on May 17.

Việt Nam will welcome over 200 experts and researchers from around to world to participate in the fifth International Conference on Rice Bran Oil in Hà Nội from May 23-25.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has proposed increasing environmental protection tax on gasoline from the current VNĐ3,000 to ceiling level of VNĐ4,000 per litre, to help raise the State budget.

The fourth Start-up Project Competition was launched in HCM City yesterday.

Profit-taking intensified during yesterday afternoon trading, dragging shares down on both national stock exchanges and making market liquidity plunge.

Việt Nam is persuading international financial institutions, including the Asian Development Bank (ADB), to expand their funding for the local private sector and reduce government guarantees for those activities, since Việt Nam will graduate from concessional assistance by ADB in January 2019 due to becoming a middle-income economy. Deputy governor of the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) Đào Minh Tú speaks to Việt Nam News about these issues on the sideline of the recent ADB 51st Annual Meeting in Manila, the Philippines.

Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) and Japan Cooperation Centre Petroleum (JCCP) signed an agreement for the second phase of a technical project on operating the petroleum depot at Petrolimex’s headquarters.

Vinhomes JSC, the real estate arm of Vingroup, yesterday (May 17) listed 2.68 billion shares on the HCM Stock Exchange.