Việt Nam News

The central bank has instructed commercial banks to maintain credit growth in these sectors within safe limits.

Airline ticket fares for children from two to twelve years old was increased from 75 to 90 per cent of adult fares beginning April 1, according to the national carrier, Vietnam Airlines, in a message sent to its agents nationwide.

The VN- Index underwent a positive trading week with modest gains in four of five sessions last week, and is expected to keep its upward trend momentum thanks to the support of some prominent bluechips.

The General Statistics Office of Việt Nam (GSO) estimated that imports of completely built-up cars in April will likely jump in both volume and value compared to the previous month.

Bến Tre Province plans to develop its renowned Xiêm coconut exports by increasing its market value and researching farming technologies and techniques.

Construction on the Bầu Ngứ Lake Solar Power Plant was begun on Saturday in the Phước Dinh Commune, Thuận Nam District of the south-central coastal province of Ninh Thuận.

The Facebook data scandal was a wake-up call to Việt Nam’s booming internet growth as experts voiced concerns over the oft-neglected threat of personal information leak.

Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in popular smart cameras that are frequently used as baby monitors or for home and office security surveillance.

Almost a third of more than 4,100 enterprises surveyed in Việt Nam do business on social networks, a slight decrease from the previous year.

HCM City officials yesterday launched the I-Star Award 2018 competition on creativity, innovation and business start-ups.

The distribution of fake, low-quality and pirated goods is increasing relentlessly and can only be prevented through combined efforts by all sectors, a seminar heard in HCM City on Friday.

The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) came under heavy criticism yesterday as economic experts voiced discontent with the association’s favouritism, lax business practises and overall incompetency in the rice export sector.

Fears of a trade war between the US and China have rocked global stock markets in recent sessions, but experts anticipate limited effects on Việt Nam’s securities market growth as the market is on solid footing and is increasingly reliant on domestic demand.

Việt Nam’s index of industrial production (IIP) in the first quarter of this year gained the highest year-on-year growth rate of 11.6 per cent in the past three years.

After struggling in the morning, the market accelerated upward in the afternoon session on Friday as real estate stocks and petroleum remained upbeat.

Countries in the Greater Mekong region were in desperate need for billions of dollars to meet the increasing demand for infrastructure, but institutional barriers were blocking the private sector to join the playing field.

Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries need to better use the private sector and high technology to boost their sustainable development, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on March 30.

Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries must invest in human capital to take advantage of the opportunities that the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) brings, said panelists at a discussion on GMS and Global Trade during the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS-6) and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Việt Nam Development Triangle Summit (CLV-10) on March 30 in Hà Nội.