Recently government bonds have seen strong foreign buying despite the facts that the dollar is expected to continue appreciating due to the US’s plan to raise interest rates a few more times in the near future and that Việt Nam does not have incentives to attract foreign investment in its bonds.

Việt Nam developed 70,900 national domain names (.vn) in the first quarter of this year, equivalent to 393 domain names per day.

Small and home-based business owners who use the Facebook platform to sell products and have revenue of more than VNĐ100 million ($4,500) per year will be taxed at five per cent.

Apartment sales in Ha Noi declined in the second quarter, while their supply increased in the first half of the year, a new report says.

Credit institutions have received some VNĐ200 trillion (US$8.9 billion) yearly from interest rates of bank loans, according to the Ministry of Finance’s estimates.

Automaker BMW can access its batch of cars being held at HCM City’s port for maintenance but the firm must replace its local dealer Euro Auto due to violations of the country’s regulations, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc at a conference with German businesses in Berlin on Thursday.

The People’s Committee of Hà Nội has proposed regulations related to underground parking space in high-rises to the municipal People’s Council, which will be approved in a meeting in July.

The rapid urbanisation of Việt Nam, together with a boom in the number of high-rise buildings, is pushing local building management firms to be more professional in order to compete with foreign rivals.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade on Thursday worked with petrol wholesalers on the roadmap to replace RON 92 petrol with E5 bio-fuel from 2018.

Sài Gòn Securities Inc (SSI) was the top brokerage by market share on the HCM Stock Exchange in the second quarter.

The benchmark VN-Index ticked down 0.88 per cent to close at 775.73 points on Friday, stepping down from the 2008 peak recorded in the last trade session due to heavy profit-taking pressure.

 A conference on promoting investment for Korean businesses in Hòa Lạc Hi-tech Park was held in Hà Nội yesterday.

The central city has introduced the first chains of safety farm produce store in the downtown in attaining the Việt Nam Agriculture Practice (VietGAP) green label certificate.

Việt Nam has become the 100th member to join the Inclusive Framework (IF) on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), the General Department of Taxation announced.

Hà Nội's municipal Department of Industry and Trade is implementing a pilot project to enhance the management of fresh fruit stores in the downtown districts of the city.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast Việt Nam's economic growth at 6.3 per cent in 2017 against the Government’s 6.7 per cent target, but noted that ambitious reforms could raise the country’s growth potential.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc expressed hope that Germany, as the largest economy and an influential member of the European Union (EU), will help attract global resources into Việt Nam.

If the shrimp industry does not change it will be unable to export and will also need to be rescued like its pork, dragon fruit and watermelon counterparts, a seminar on establishing a disease-free shrimp production chain for export heard in HCM City on July 5.