Việt Nam News

As many as 50 Vietnamese food and beverage (F&B) enterprises, double the number that attended last year, displayed and promoted their products at the THAIFEX-World of Food Asia 2017 held in Bangkok earlier this month.

LienVietPostBank’s new chairman Nguyễn Đức Hưởng has rejected rumours that his bank will merge with Sacombank.

The southern province of Kiên Giang aims to mobilise VNĐ255 trillion (US$11.3 billion) for socio-economic development by 2020.

The Australian Consulate General in the southern metropolis of HCM City worked with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ on June 12 to explore co-operation in hi-tech agriculture in the coming time.

The Ministry of Finance said the names of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) which had been privatised but failed to list on exchanges as per the regulations would be published on the Government’s e-portal.

Two-way trade between Việt Nam and the European Union (EU) grew 16.2 per cent year-on-year in the first five months of 2017, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

A new rule issued by the Hà Nội Stock Exchange, allowing brokerages to become securities market members, is expected to improve the trading quality of Việt Nam’s securities market.

Authorities of the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế is directing their resources on implementing 12 priority projects worth nearly VNĐ1.2 trillion (US$52 million) to accelerate the agricultural restructuring process by 2020.

Businesses making coconut-based products in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre are facing a raw material shortage due to last year’s drought and saltwater intrusion from the sea into rivers.

With farmers still having difficulty selling pigs, many businesses in HCM City have stepped up programmes to stimulate pork demand.

The country’s inflation this year is forecast at 2.6 per cent if there is no surge in the world’s goods prices and no adjustment of the public services, said the National Financial Supervisory Commission (NFSC).

Việt Nam’s benchmark VN-Index struggled to rise on Monday, but market conditions remained poor as investors remained cautious ahead of the US Fed’s meeting.

Google removed an Android app from Google Play last week after security researchers from Kaspersky Labs discovered a dangerous Trojan hidden inside it.

Several southern retailers are launching promotional offers to boost the sale of pork amid slump in prices, which have hit farmers hard recently.

Industrial zones and complexes are central to socio-economic development and attracting investors, the Long An Province Department of Industry and Trade has said.

Việt Nam’s long-standing efforts to tackle the practice of transfer pricing as a tax avoidance ploy have gained sharper legal teeth with a new decree.

The Vietnamese Swiftlet Farming Association under the Việt Nam Farms and Agricultural Enterprises Association made its debut in HCM City’s Cần Giờ District on June 9.

From mid-March Sacombank has been offering certificates of deposit (CDs) denominated in đồng to individuals and companies.