Việt Nam News

Preferential policies should be granted more selectively, targeting FDI businesses with effective operation rather than the scale of investment, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ said at a working session with the Ministry of Finance in Hà Nội on February 28.

Future trends of the Vietnamese retail market, including the use of digital and AI, were discussed by more than 400 retail experts at a seminar organised in HCM City yesterday (Thursday) by Vincom Retail Joint-Stock Company.

The central city’s People’s Committee said it had granted licences to seven foreign direct investment projects worth US$419.39 million, and agreed investment research for 15 other projects worth an estimated $2.6 billion.

Vietnamese shares were hit hard on Thursday as a no-deal summit between the US and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) struck investors hard and spread a massive sell-off across the trading board.

The Ministry of Finance on Thursday appointed Nguyễn Như Quỳnh, member of the board of directors at the Hà Nội Stock Exchange, as the new deputy chairperson of the northern market bourse.

Elsa Speak, an English learning application, has successfully raised US$7 million in funding from Google and Silicon Valley in the US.

An estimated 1.59 million foreigners visited Việt Nam in February, a month-on-month increase of 5.8 per cent, according to the General Statistics Office.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of the southern province of Vĩnh Long is joining with the Green Path Việt Nam Trading and Import-Export Company to increase mango exports to the US.

Foreign and domestic reporters working at the International Media Center in Hà Nội during the ongoing DPRK – USA Hanoi Summit will receive free domestic airline tickets and accommodation at a five-star resort.

Vietnamese companies must know how to take advantage of and mitigate the adverse impacts of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a seminar heard on Wednesday.

The 2019 Việt Nam International Furniture and Home Accessories Fair to be held in HCM City next week will offer local and foreign companies a chance to network and explore business opportunities.

Nearly 70 per cent of surveyed firms planned to expand their businesses in the upcoming time as most of them were optimistic about business results in 2018.

Vietnamese shares recovered from a short-lived decline as investor confidence turned positive ahead of the start of the DPRK-USA Summit.

National carrier Vietnam Airlines and Sabre, a leading technology provider from the US, on Wednesday signed a strategic co-operation expansion agreement on aviation technology worth US$300 million.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc received Kevin McAllister, Executive Vice President of the US’s Boeing Company and President and Chief Executive Officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Việt Nam’s capital earned an estimated US$2.24 billion from exports in the first two months of this year, up 21.3 per cent year-on-year, according the municipal Statistics Office.

Two Vietnamese airlines signed deals worth a combined US$15.7 billion to purchase airplanes from Boeing on the sideline of the USA-DPRK Summit in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

The price of pepper in the southern province of Bình Phước has sharply fallen, making local gardeners worried they could face a season of losses.