Việt Nam News

Over the past three months, the bank posted after-tax profit of VNĐ126 billion, up 14 per cent year-on-year.

Retailers in HCM City, including Saigon Co.op and Big C, are offering discounts on pork in an effort to boost consumption.

Vingroup Joint Stock Company (Vingroup) announced their business plan for 2017 and revenues from 2016 at their annual shareholders meeting for the year 2017 on Wednesday in Hà Nội, with significant earnings and development.

Foreign investors have poured US$10.95 billion into new and operational FDI projects and to buy stakes in local companies in the first four months of 2017, up 40.5 per cent from the same period last year.

The Government should create the best possible conditions, including easing tax procedures, to encourage household businesses to expand into companies.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc met in Vientiane on Thursday with Vietnamese investors to hear about their difficulties in a bid to help create favourable conditions for Vietnamese investments in Laos.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has asked the national power company, Electricity of Việt Nam (EVN), to propose tariffs based on true production costs this year.

The newly established five modal (rail/road/air/river/sea) infrastructure network has brought a great deal of investment to the Red River Delta, especially Hải Phòng, delegates told a seminar held in HCM City on Wednesday.

Shares rose for a second day in the two local markets on Thursday on investor optimism that the market will return to a positive trend soon.

Monika Bickert, head of product policy at Facebook, who is visiting Việt Nam, talks with Việt Nam News about what the American social network company is doing to keep the Vietnamese Facebook community safe. 

The Việt Nam Glass and Ceramics for Construction Corporation (Viglacera)’s annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday highlighted the company's business plan to implement investment activities in Cuba.

Global research and consultancy firm Oxford Business Group (OBG) on April 25 launched a comprehensive report on the Vietnamese economy. OBG Chairman Michael Benson-Colpi and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HSBC Bank Việt Nam Phạm Hồng Hải, one of the contributors to “The Report Vietnam 2017” spoke to Việt Nam News reporter Nguyễn Linh Anh about the factors that make Việt Nam stand out as an investment destination as well as the challenges that lie ahead.

Businesses may be able to improve earnings and market values if they are able to develop and use intellectual property in efficient ways, officials said at a seminar on Tuesday.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) is showcasing Vietnamese seafood products at the Seafood Expo Global, which is being held in Brussels, Belgium, from Tuesday to Thursday.

Shares recovered on the two local markets on yesterday after gloomy trading sessions as investor confidence was picked up by positive moves in global markets.

Vietnamese enterprises can meet some international standards of transparency, however, large companies still disclose little information about anti-corruption programmes, said Nguyễn Thị Kiều Viễn, executive director of Towards Transparency Việt Nam at a workshop in Hà Nội.

Vietcombank lent Việt Nam’s leading egg supplier Ba Huân Company Ltd VNĐ60 billion (US$2.6 million) to build a high-tech egg processing plant in Hà Nội.