The country’s premier fisheries expo, the Việt Nam Fisheries International Exhibition, returns to HCM City 30 per cent larger than when it debuted in 2008.

Executives from 11 Korean companies met their Vietnamese counterparts at the 2018 Việt Nam-Korea Technology Venture Matching held in HCM City yesterday to exchange information and explore business opportunities.

The application of modern digital technologies would help local firms increase productivity, reducing costs and risks, especially in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Vietnamese shares advanced on Wednesday despite investors’ profit-taking as overall market sentiment remained positive about the possibility of resolving China-US trade tensions.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has assigned the People’s Committee of the northern province of Điện Biên to oversee the investment and construction of Điện Biên Airport.

Six enterprises from the Republic of Korea on Wednesday officially held a groundbreaking ceremony at the Dung Quất Economic Zone and received investment certificates from the central province of Quảng Ngãi.

An event connecting technology ventures from Việt Nam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) was held in HCM City on Wednesday to strengthen cooperation and trade activities between businesses of the two countries.

Việt Nam gained a trade surplus of US$2.92 billion to August 15, according to the latest statistics from the General Department of Customs.

More than 700 delegates from the information and technology and communication (ITC) sector across the country are expected to participate in the 22nd Việt Nam ITC Development conference to be held in the Mekong Delta province of Vĩnh Long by the end of this month.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines inaugurated a flight simulation complex (SIM), the first of its kind in Viet Nam, in HCM City on August 21, marking a breakthrough in the firm’s pilot training strategy.

Leading real estate and retail conglomerate Vingroup signed agreements with the top 50 universities in Việt Nam on Tuesday as it aims to become an international-standard technology-industry-service business in the future.

The revolution of technology 4.0 has fundamentally changed the business and management model of banks following the digital banking trend.

A report by the Ministry of Industry and Trade this year showed that the number of Vietnamese enterprises interested in investing and applying new technologies, especially the core technologies of industry 4.0 in the production process was still modest.

The Việt Nam’s capital market is facing a concerns in the imbalance between the credit market and the capital market.

Việt Nam's agricultural exports face a range of challenges and barriers in Europe due to new stringent food safety regulations

State management bodies need to consider the market in terms of the development of new technologies and business methods, rather than using administrative procedures to intervene in the operation of auto transport businesses, said Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) Nguyễn Đình Cung.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường has urged the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces, especially An Giang Province, to apply advanced technologies in production of tra fish (catfish).

Việt Nam is striving for sustainable development on the basis of improving growth quality and taking advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to increase labour productivity and competitiveness to move up in the global value chain.