Việt Nam News

After struggling in the morning, the market accelerated upward in the afternoon session on Friday as real estate stocks and petroleum remained upbeat.

Countries in the Greater Mekong region were in desperate need for billions of dollars to meet the increasing demand for infrastructure, but institutional barriers were blocking the private sector to join the playing field.

Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries need to better use the private sector and high technology to boost their sustainable development, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on March 30.

Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries must invest in human capital to take advantage of the opportunities that the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) brings, said panelists at a discussion on GMS and Global Trade during the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS-6) and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Việt Nam Development Triangle Summit (CLV-10) on March 30 in Hà Nội.

Cà Mau Province plans to help set up and attract around 6,000 new businesses by 2020, and 15,000 companies by 2030, by offering funding and changing legal procedures to accommodate the private sector.

Vietnamese firms need to have greater awareness of information security and make clear plans before buying cyber security solutions, a seminar heard in HCM City on Friday.

Countries in the Great Mekong Sub-region (GMS) should focus on improving the infrastructure to better the connectivity among them, said Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, Thailand’s Minister of Transport.

Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko and his delegation on Friday attended the signing ceremony of a business cooperation contract in the northern province of Hưng Yên.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has signed a decision to establish the secretariat to assist the national steering committee on restructuring the economy and renewing the country's growth model.

Despite decreasing one point to 115 points compared to the previous quarter, Vietnamese consumer confidence finished 2017 on a high note.

The starting price for the initial public offering (IPO) of the Vietnam Television Cable Corporation (VTVCab) has been set at VNĐ140,900 (US$6.26) per share.

Chinese enterprises importing Vietnamese fruits to the country must provide information about the origin and quality of such fruits while following import procedures from April 1, 2018.

The National Payment Corporation of Việt Nam (NAPAS) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on market development co-operation with KEB Hana Card Co., Ltd and Alliex Vietnam JSC.

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.