

Low cassava prices plunge farmers into despair
Cassava farmers in Gia Lai Province are in dire straits, unable to sell their produce even after prices have plunged below production costs.
Cassava farmers in Gia Lai Province are in dire straits, unable to sell their produce even after prices have plunged below production costs.
The Vietnamese e-commerce market is expected to surge in the next five years, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, which has set an online sales target of US$10 billion or 5 per cent of total retail sales.
This year 17 commercial banks had planned to increase their capital, but only two managed to do so.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) announced recent drops in pepper prices, both domestic and exported, in October.
Việt Nam plans to export chicken to Japan from next year and expand chicken export markets to other Asian countries in 2018, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said.
Vietnamese stocks are expected to remain volatile early this week until the US presidential election concludes, while foreign trading will help boost the market at the end of the week, experts have said.
Globally, smartphones account for nearly 42 per cent of all phones, and their users expect technologies to evolve rapidly, a technology forum organised yesterday by Vietnamese mobile phone manufacturer Mobiistar and Taiwanese chip manufacturer MediaTek heard.
Vietnamese OTT application for mobile devices Zalo has reached initial success in Myanmar with 2 million users only after four months of operation.
Nearly 500 enterprises participated in the launch of Hà Nội Promotion Month on Friday, offering wide-scale discounts at 1,000 sale locations.
Shares sank for a third day on the two exchanges yesterday as investors continued to maintain a cautious view on the market outlook.
The Việt Nam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) officially launched its Vinaphone 4G service in the Phú Quốc Island on Thursday.
FPT corporation, the country’s software giant has launched a technology contest with the theme “unmanned vehicles,” aimed at offering students opportunities to experience the challenges of high technology.
Human resource development is the key to enhancing the country’s economic development, social stability and international integration, Nguyễn Thanh Hưng, deputy minister of Information and Communications, said on Thursday.
Việt Nam’s total retail sale and service revenues saw a year-on-year increase of 9.3 per cent to some VNĐ2,896.6 trillion (US$126 billion) in the first ten months of 2016, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The Việt Nam Association of Financial Executives was formed yesterday in HCM City to create a forum for financial executives.
Viet Nam Competition Authority (VCA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will hold a public consultation with related parties on investigations for anti-dumping tariffs on coated steel sheets.
Foreign ownership rates in Vietnamese companies remain low though Decree 60 stipulates no limits in most sectors, the second Việt Nam International Investor conference heard in HCM City yesterday .
The HCM City-based Dream Home Corporation announced it has signed a comprehensive cooperation contract with The Global Group, a Japanese real estate developer, vietnamplus.vn reported.
New land lots of smaller size are available at the Hiệp Phước Supporting Industrial Zone for supporting industry start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises, the Hiệp Phước Industrial Park Joint Stock Company has said.
Vietnamese businesses’ spending on environmental protection remains modest compared with their total investment and operation expenses, according to a survey released on Wednesday.