Việt Nam News

Automobile industry will be connected, autonomous and electric, a conference  heard in HCM City on Thursday.

Việt Nam’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth reached 6.81 per cent last year, the highest in the last decade.

Japan’s Uniqlo has acquired a 35 per cent stake in Hà Nội-based women’s fashion products maker Elise Joint-Stock Company. 

The fourth industrial revolution is giving rise to “smart” factories where robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and data analytics are used to link production and logistics processes and make manufacturing more intelligent, efficient and sustainable, but their number is limited in Việt Nam.

Selling pressure increased suddenly especially near the close of the trading session on Friday, hitting many large-cap stocks and putting pressure on the overall market.

More than 300 women entrepreneurs discussed ways to boost their businesses at the Women Entrepreneurs Forum, entitled ‘Key to success in the Digital Age’, in Hà Nội on Friday.

 Hà Nội Trade Corporation (Hapro) has signed contracts for exporting agricultural products worth about US$2 million at the world’s largest food innovation exhibition SIAL Paris.

Most thermal power companies have reported lower earnings in the third quarter of 2018 as increasing rainfall reduces demand for heat energy.

Project management unit number 2 (PMU2) has urged the Ministry of Transport to approve a pre-feasibility study it has done for the HCM City – Mộc Bài Expressway.

Long Thành International Airport of Việt Nam is listed as one of the 16 most exciting airport projects under construction or redevelopment in the world, according to CNN Travel.

More than 200 booths are displaying products at an exhibition of industrial and consumer goods that opened in the northern province of Hòa Bình on Thursday.

The Prime Minister recently gave approval in principle for the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to set up an ICT Industry Department to promote the production of made-in-Việt Nam terminal equipment and boost the electronics industry.

Việt Nam’s expansion has charged ahead despite the recent financial and trade turmoil, which has affected many emerging Southeast Asian markets, Moody’s Investors Service has said.

The Việt Nam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) and the Việt Nam Mobile Telecom Services Corporation (Mobifone) have prepared full dossiers to be transferred to the Committee for State Capital Management (CMSC) this year.

The State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) and Military-run telecoms group Viettel have decided to offload their entire stakes, collectively at 79 per cent, in the Việt Nam Construction and Import-Export Joint Stock Corporation (Vinaconex).

Liquidity in the banking system is getting tighter, causing interest rates on the inter-bank market to surge.

HD Mon Holdings and Indochina Capital on Thursday in Hà Nội signed a strategic partnership agreement.