Việt Nam News

Belgian Rent-A-Port N.V. on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Việt Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines).

BKAV Technology Group spent eight years and VNĐ500 billion (US$22 million) to make the first “Made in Vietnam, Designed by BKAV’ smartphone. Việt Nam News speaks with Nguyễn Tử Quảng, chairman and CEO of the company, about its latest offering, the luxury Bphone 2017.

Potential benefits and challenges for the digital economy and new-age regulations for new-age businesses were discussed at a workshop in HCM City yesterday.

The national index for industrial production (IIP) increased 6.7 per cent year-on-year in the first eight months of this year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.

Shares rebounded slightly on the HCM Stock Exchange after a bearish session on Wednesday, propped up by strong growth of real estate and steel stocks.

Small-scale farming with low productivity and lack of production and storage technologies as well as insufficient abilities in expanding markets as major challenges facing domestic pig farming industry.

Asia will be a new market for Việt Nam’s shrimp industry in the future, said Việt Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) in HCM City on Tuesday.

More than 85,350 firms were established in the first eight months of this year with total registered capital of VNĐ822 trillion (US$36 billion), statistics of the Business Registration Department under the Ministry of Planning and Investment showed.

Individual investors that participate in derivatives trading market have to pay a 0.1 per cent income tax for derivatives trading transactions.

The consumer price index (CPI) in the largest southern economic hub of HCM City in August rose 0.5 per cent from the previous month and 3.63 per cent over the same period last year, the municipal Statistics Office reported on August 29.

The central province has called new investors for the Trúc Lâm Zen Quảng Nam tourism project in Phú Ninh district after the initial investor – the Ba Vàng limited company – reported they withdrew from the project due to financial difficulties.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has expressed its disagreement with certain incentive mechanisms for businesses and individuals working in special economic zones in three provinces.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc recently approved the adjustment and supplementation of the Việt Nam coal industry development plan until 2020, with a vision towards 2030.

The Việt Nam–Laos trade and tourism fair 2017 has been kicked off in the northern province of Sơn La on Tuesday.

Shares declined more steeply in Tuesday’s afternoon trading after many heavyweight shares were sold, potentially driven by the withdrawal of an exchange-traded fund (ETF).

Việt Nam’s consumer price index (CPI) increased by 0.92 per cent in August, the highest month-on-month increase in the first eight months of this year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced yesterday.

Bolstering intellectual property (IP) rights enforcement, including computer software, is high on the Government’s agenda, as part of its efforts to uphold international IP rights commitments it has made.

A trailblazer in bringing Cognitive Computing to enterprises and organisations in Việt Nam through its partnership with IBM, Five9 has been investing heavily in training, both domestically and overseas.  Returning from an IBM Design Thinking Workshop in London recently, Five9 chairman Nguyễn Trọng Huấn spoke to the press about the company’s strategy for Cognitive Computing training and application in Việt Nam.