Việt Nam News

Quảng Ninh Province’s local authorities requested the suspension of land use conversions and land transfers in Vân Đồn District until the National Assembly adopts the Law on Special Administrative Economic Zones later this month.

In the first three months of this year, the value of steel exports exceeded US$1 billion, with the exports on an upward trend

Southern provincial authorities should be more committed to work with HCM City to expand trade and export of Vietnamese products, the head of the city’s Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC) has said.

Việt Nam’s shrimp industry is expected to gain an export value of US$4.8 billion in 2018 due to the many advantages of exports promotion, experts said.

The ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN), including Việt Nam’s three largest cities, will enable Southeast Asia to sustainably develop its cities, further optimise the region’s burgeoning internet economies, and elevate ASEAN’s international relevance, according to an HSBC report.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) signed on Thursday an agreement for a project to develop a national investment information system in Việt Nam.

Việt Nam earned US$1.1 billion by exporting 2.16 million tonnes of rice between January and April this year, up 35.7 per cent in value and 21.7 per cent in volume. 

Belgian Vietnamese Alliance and Flanders Investment and Trade held a meeting with a delegation of Belgian businesses on May 3.

Vietjet Aviation Joint Stock Company (HOSE code: VJC) recorded a yearly increase of 254 per cent in pre-tax profit at VNĐ1.48 trillion (US$65 million) in the first quarter of 2018.

The HCM City Centre for Supporting Industry Development has collaborated with other agencies to provide human resource solutions to supporting industries.

Viettel Group’s revenue from its overseas investment in 2017 surged by 38 per cent from the previous year to reach VNĐ38 trillion (US$1.7 billion).

The World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ASEAN) 2018 is scheduled to take place in Hà Nội from September 11-13, focusing on entrepreneurship and the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). 

The period’s strong IIP rise was attributable to the fact that many industrial firms have took full advantages of the State policies in cutting off business condition and speeding administrative reforms to expand their operations and markets for their products, according to statisticians from the General Statistics Office (GSO).

As many as 100 food and beverages (F&B) enterprises from 12 countries are displaying their products at the Việt Nam International Café Show 2018 which opened yesterday (May 3) in HCM City.

Wholesale petrol traders should make more efforts to raise the market share of bio-fuel E5 in the country, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT) Đỗ Thắng Hải.

The purchasing power in the total national retail value of goods and services until April 2018 reached nearly VNĐ1.40 trillion ($61.4 million), the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.

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HCM City will continue to focus on developing supporting industries, and targets meeting 45 per cent of national demand for manufactured inputs by 2020 and 65 per cent by 2025.