The VN-Index experienced a correction yesterday with a loss of 0.33 per cent to close at 714.5 points.

AIA Group Limited posted an increase of 15 per cent in its operating profit after taxes, reaching US$3.98 billion in 2016.

Property inventories totaled more than VNĐ29.5 trillion (US$1.2 billion) as of February 20, dropping by nearly 77 per cent over its peak in the first quarter of 2013, statistics of the Ministry of Construction showed.

The APEC Finance and Central Bank Deputies’ Meeting (FCBDM) successfully concluded in Nha Trang city in the central coastal province of Khanh Hòa yesterday after two days of working.

Vietnamese IT giant FPT Corporation has been selected by Myanmar to implement a US$11.3 million project that is part of a programme to modernise the nation’s public finance system.

The 10th Việt Nam Annual Report Awards were announced in HCM City on Thursday with the focus this year on listed companies following international reporting norms.

Around 100 exhibitors and 20,000 visitors will take part in the country’s biggest coffee exhibition, the 2017 Cafe Show Việt Nam, to be held in HCM City next week.

Samsung Display officially received an investment licence Friday for its US$2.5 billion expansion project in Bắc Ninh Province’s Yên Phong Industrial Park.

Roughly 86,000 unfinished apartments were eligible for sale in Hà Nội and HCM City as of February.

Tiên Phong Bank (TPBank) in Hà Nội on Thursday officially launched LiveBank – the first auto banking model in Viet Nam to change traditional bank trading.

Việt Nam’s three-year run of growth in its residential property market is expected to continue in the short term, a study conducted by FT Confidential Research (FTCR) has revealed.

HCM City has asked relevant organisations to accelerate social housing development following Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc’s directive to build homes for low-income earners.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has given Mai Linh investment Joint Stock Company the go-ahead to invest in a big trade centre and apartment complex in Nam Từ Liêm district’s Mễ Trì and Phú Đô ward, according to Đầu Tư (Investment) online newspaper.

The State Bank of Việt Nam yesterday terminated Trầm Bê’s and Trầm Khải Hòa’s membership in the management board at Sài Gòn Thương Tín Joint Stock Commercial Bank (Sacombank).

Military-run telecom group, Viettel and national carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) signed a strategic co-operation agreement in Hà Nội yesterday.

Việt Nam is likely to have something to crow about during the Year of the Rooster as several factors will facilitate socio-economic growth, ANZ Vietnam said on Friday.

Representatives of 20 Japanese firms in Việt Nam are attending the Japan Parts & Processing Exhibition 2017, organised by Hà Nội’s Department of Industry and Trade and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), in Hà Nội on February 23, to sound out business opportunities.

Pragmatic policies are needed for the Government to realise its goal of promoting start-ups in the agriculture sector.