Việt Nam News

Enterprise in the new economic era of transforming from traditional to digital economy must choose sustainable development of significant breakthrough to reach outstanding level of business scale and effectiveness, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

FinTech helps small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets like Việt Nam participate in supply chain finance, spurring company growth, speakers said at an APEC conference on supply chain finance held yesterday in HCM City.

Positive movements of global markets helped boost morale in Vietnamese shares on Friday and lift the benchmark VN-Index up to a two-week high.

 LIAN, anautomatic insurance application that uses artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies, has been launched in HCM City.

The Saigon Newport Corporation proposed constructing a port in Hải Hà Seaport Industrial Zone (IZ) in the northern province of Quảng Ninh.

Russian team LC1BC won the international-level Whitehat Grand Prix 2018 cyber security competition, which took place in Hà Nội on November 1.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang are preparing to ship 400 tonnes of well-known local Lò Rèn star apples to the US this year.

The central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế is striving to attract 15 domestic and foreign investment projects with a total registered capital of some VNĐ10 trillion (US$428.8 million) in 2018.

Property developer FLC Group said it will inject US$1.5 billion into agricultural development across 15,000 hectares of land in Việt Nam during 2018 and 2019.

PV GAS and Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to provide PV Gas with liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Alaska LNG project.

Việt Nam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has decided to maintain safeguard measures for steel billets and steel bars imported from a number of countries and territories including China, the US, Canada, Germany, France, Japan and the Republic of Korea.

Many local enterprises are concerned with paying higher corporate income tax according to regulations on the deductibility of loan interest under Decree 20, in effect since May 1, 2017.

The domestic sector posted a trade deficit of $20.7 billion in the period while the foreign-invested sector enjoyed a trade surplus of $27.1 billion, the General Statistics Office said in a monthly report.

Vietnamese enterprises, especially small- and medium-sized ones, should develop their brands to increase their competitiveness amid the process of integration, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

Vingroup has injected more than VNĐ13.6 trillion (US$581.32 million) into its VinFast automobile project in the first nine months of this year, marking an increase of over VNĐ12.9 trillion compared with the beginning of last year.

The 10^th annual Việt Nam International Retail Tech and Franchise Show opened yesterday in HCM City, showcasing 150 franchise models and 50 brands that provide technologies and equipment for the retail sector.

Ascendas-Singbridge Group and its joint venture partner Saigon Bund Capital Partners yesterday (November 1) handed over the first office tower at the OneHub Saigon in District 9 to its first tenants, IKEA Purchasing & Logistics Southeast Asia and AAH Corporation.

Third-quarter earnings reports from large-cap companies have signalled the earnings season is near its end, pushing investors back to a defensive zone and again putting pressure on the stock market with low confidence.