Việt Nam News

Việt Nam is one of the most important economic partners of Argentina, Vice President of Argentina Gabriela Michetti told Việt Nam’s Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Đỗ Thắng Hải at a meeting in Buenos Aires on October 27.

Recently Sài Gòn Thương Tín Joint Stock Commercial Bank (Sacombank) sold VNĐ2.58 trillion worth of non-performing loans to the Việt Nam Asset Management Company.

The Law on Special Administrative-Economic Units must create breakthroughs in mechanisms and preferential incentives to boost economic development, experts have said.

President Trần Đại Quang urged the central city, ministries and relevant agencies hosting the 2017 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Summit to think of APEC’s Economic Leaders’ Week on November 5-11 as national festival days.

Startups and private enterprises in the country should work with local authorities on ways to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Phạm Hồng Quất, director of the National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation Development, said on Oct 27.

Conglomerate Hoàng Anh Gia Lai’s chairman Đoàn Nguyên Đức will sell 23 million HAGL shares as guaranteed assets to help the company restructure its debts.

The HCM City People’s Committee has proposed that the Ministry of Construction apply a high tax on second and subsequent homes, as well as when there are a high number of real estate transactions within a year.

A start-up environment with plenty of support for innovation is taking shape in the south-eastern region but there are many teething troubles, a conference heard in HCM City on Thursday.

Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh and members of the National Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Committee officially inaugurated the International Media Centre in Đà Nẵng yesterday.

Mando's CEO and president Sung Il-mo, along with representatives of over 80 businesses from the Republic of Korea (RoK), held a working session with provincial authorities on Thursday to explore investment opportunities.

An increasing number of overseas buyers are sourcing products from Việt Nam as the country is rapidly improving its supply chain for locally made garments and taking part in more free trade agreements.

Minister, Chairman of the Government Office, Mai Tiến Dũng, urged the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) to simplify quality control procedures to facilitate imports and exports.

The Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) programme has benefited participating factories by helping cut costs, improve workplace co-operation, increase productivity and reduce employee turnover rate, a forum heard in HCM City yesterday.

Vincom Retail, the retail arm of the real estate conglomerate Vingroup, will debut on the HCM Stock Exchange on November 6.

The proposal of Hà Nội Construction Joint Stock Company No 3 (Hanco3) to demolish three resettlement buildings which were left deserted for a decade caused a stir because this was a big waste.

Officials from Việt Nam and Canada discussed boosting trade and mutual investment between the two countries at a seminar in Toronto on Thursday.

The benchmark VN-Index hit a new 10-year peak on Friday after big money flowed into large-cap stocks on rising investor confidence in the market outlook.

More than 400 textile and garment industry players, practitioners and merchandisers participated in the Trim Technology Day held on Friday in HCM City.