Việt Nam News

Việt Nam’s cement consumption continued to register strong growth in the first half of this year, especially cement exports, according to the Ministry of Construction.

Hà Nội City and Japan’s Fukuoka prefecture exchanged experiences in agricultural development at an agricultural cooperation promotion workshop today in the capital city.

The textile and apparel industry was defined as a field with one of the highest growth rates over the next 12 years.

Since June 19, public-private-partnership (PPP) investment projects have been implemented according to Decree 63/2018/NĐ-CP (Decree 63).

Maximising the shopping experience with the help of digital in-store solutions is key for future success in the consumer goods sector, delegates said at a seminar held in HCM City on June 27.  

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ met Kristalina Georgieva, CEO of the World Bank, and Mitsuhiro Furusawa, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, during his visit to the United States from June 25-27.

The upcoming World Economic Forum ASEAN 2018, to be held in mid-September, will focus on entrepreneurship and the fourth industrial revolution in the ASEAN region.

Vietnamese shares extended losses for a second session on Wednesday as last-minute selling drove capital towards assets other than stocks, showing low investor confidence.

The banking sector is optimistic about its growth prospect in 2018 as all of surveyed banks expects the growth rate to be more than 10 per cent.

The third edition of the Denimsandjeans.com Việt Nam Show opened in HCM City on June 27 with over 100 garment enterprises from 11 countries taking part.

Vietcombank will become the first major State-owned bank to apply Basel II standards, two years earlier than the deadline set by the central bank.

In the first half of 2018, total domestic petrol consumption in Việt Nam reached about 4.43 million cubic metres, of which consumption of E5 RON92 reached about 1.78 million cubic metres, accounting for 40.18 per cent, a year-on-year increase of 31.18 per cent.

The Vietnam Engine and Agricultural Machinery Corporation (VEAM) will trade 1.33 billion shares on the Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) on July 2.

The Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) will buy back more than 73.2 million shares as treasury shares.

 Passenger traffic through Vietnamese airports hit 52.8 million in the first half of this year, a surge of 14 per cent year-on-year, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam reported.

Viettel Group should continue affirming its leading role in the country’s telecommunications and information and technology sector to further contribute to the country’s development, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

Building on the success of the forum “Connecting Vietnamese Startups in the US and Việt Nam” held in San Francisco last December, HCM City hosted a similar event on June 26-27 to bring together Vietnamese startups at home and abroad.

Việt Nam and the European Union (EU) have finished the legal review process for their free trade agreement (FTA) and reached consensus on the entire bilateral investment protection deal.