Việt Nam needs to improve the quality of its technical and vocational education and training to meet the requirements of digitisation and industry 4.0, a conference heard in HCM City yesterday.

 Competition in the country’s debit and credit card market has become stiffer as foreign and small banks join large domestic banks and finance companies in the race to gain shares in the potential market.

Việt Nam and Bulgaria should promote co-operation in trade and investment, especially in hi-tech agriculture, enabling Vietnamese products to access the Bulgarian market, said Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ in Hà Nội on Tuesday.

Transparency is critical to enhance the efficiency of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) as Việt Nam enters a new phase of equitisation which will focus on quality rather than quantity.

The Vietnamese capital is speeding up efforts to become a smart city that offers convenience, safety and comfort to every citizen, applying key technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, said the municipal People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung.

Vietnamese shares recovered on Tuesday, driven by large-cap stocks despite further complications in US and China trade relations.

PetroVietnam Technical Services Corporation (PVS) will record revenue and post-tax profits of VNĐ14.7 trillion and VNĐ736 in 2018, down 12 per cent and 8 per cent year-on-year, respectively.

Hoàng Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Company (HAGL) (HAG) has registered to purchase 24 million shares of its farming subsidiary HAGL Agrico (HNG).

 HCM City will adopt incentives to encourage the private sector to develop social housing for sale and rent to address the city’s shortage of affordable homes for low-income families and industrial park workers.

Bến Tre will provide incentives for investments in rural areas and the agricultural sector to tap the largely unexploited potential of the southern province.

 The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) under the United States Department of Agriculture has proposed continuing Việt Nam’s eligibility to export Siluriformes fish, commonly known as catfish, and fish products to the United States.

A buyer-seller conference to link businesses in HCM City and those in other cities and provinces will be held in Bến Tre Province from November 23 to 25.

More and more companies are launching organic milk brands as demand for the product rises.

It is not technology but dreams that can change the world, said President and CEO of Vietjet Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo as she addressed attendees of the recent World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in the capital.

HDBank has been recognised as one of the best companies to work for in Việt Nam by HR Asia magazine, a publication for human resource professionals in Asia.

 The new competition law will create a legal framework to better manage economic concentration, experts say.

The legal framework in Việt Nam on the management and handling of virtual currency and property (coding) has still been primitive. Many legal issues related to this field should be further studied, said Lê Thành Long, Minister of Justice.

 Many State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are finding it difficult to seek strategic investors post-equitisation and have decided to retain the shares or sell them to the public.