Việt Nam News

Việt Nam’s enterprises should promote the transfer of technology from Israel to develop their businesses and also increase trade promotion activities to this market.

The Customs Department of Quảng Ninh Province has set up a team to improve the quality of support for import and export enterprises.

Real estate and construction firm 577 Investment Corporation has lost VNĐ614.7 billion (US$27.3 million) in market capitalisation following the fire at Carina Plaza in HCM City on March 23.

At least six member countries of the Transpacific Partnership’s new avatar, the CPTPP, including Việt Nam, are likely to ratify it this year enabling it to come into force in early 2019, bringing 90 per cent of trade tariffs between 11 nations down to zero, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday (March 29).

Việt Nam posted year-on-year GDP growth of 7.38 per cent in the first quarter of 2018, the best first-quarter performance in the last ten years, backed by growth in manufacturing and agriculture.

Shares declined for the first time in the last four trades as investors still kept precautious view on the market outlook amid global volatility following the US-China trade tension.

Airports Corporation of Việt Nam (ACV) is expected to reach VNĐ18.04 trillion (US$789.2 million) in accumulated revenue this year, marking an increase of 13 per cent compared to last year.

Travel and transportation services company WorldTrans announced its schedule for direct charter flights between Cần Thơ and Bangkok this year at a press conference in Mekong Delta city on Wednesday.

Experts and scientists discussed ways to promote the herbal medicine industry in Việt Nam at a workshop on March 28 in Hà Nội.

During the reviewed period, finance banking caught the most interest from the Vietnamese investors, accounting for 70.2 per cent of their total investments, or $105 million. 

After a year of thorough investigation into the anti-dumping and anti-subsidisation case of Vietnamese coiled steel rod, the Australian Anti-Dumping Commission (ADC) has closed the matter.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân held a working session with the Dutch Cooperative Organisation - Agriterra in the Dutch city of Arnhem on March 28 while visiting the World Horti Centre.

FPT Digital Retail JSC (FPT Retail) hopes its pharmaceutical unit will contribute 30-40 per cent of the company’s total revenue in the next three to four years, chairwoman and general director Nguyễn Bạch Điệp said yesterday.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam Nguyễn Phú Trọng cut the ribbon during a ceremony in Paris on March 28 to deliver an A350 Airbus wide-body plane to the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.

The Ministry of Transport has proposed the Government to cut and simplify 314 of the 500 business conditions and regulations related to transport operations.

The first Shop & Store Vietnam, a conference and exhibition on the retail and franchise industry, is being held in HCM City from March 28.

Shares dropped at the beginning of yesterday’s trading session but the increase in blue-chip stocks during the ATC session helped the market recover.

Việt Nam News reporter Phương Uyên talked to Nguyễn Thị Phi Nga, lawyer, licensed IP attorney and Counsel at Hogan Lovells International LLP, about the country’s future in IP protection and national brand establishment.