Việt Nam News

Việt Nam’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is projected to increase modestly to 6.5 per cent this year and 6.7 per cent in 2018.

Thừa Thiên-Huế Province attracted 140 projects with total registered capital of VNĐ64.3 trillion (US$2.8 billion) in the first quarter of this year.

The number of multi-level marketing businesses has halved to 37 by end of March, following Government crackdown over the past two years to ensure that they are operating correctly.

A-Pro Tech Vietnam Co Ltd on Monday broke ground for the construction of a bike and automobile spare parts manufacturing plant in the southern province of Bình Dương.

Liquidity of the Vietnamese đồng in the banking system has shown signs of cooling down over the past week.

Mizuho Financial Group will set up an US$252 million (28 billion Japanese yen) investment fund early this summer to invest in small- and medium-sized companies in Southeast Asia, Nikkei reported.

Hà Nội is calling for investment in environmentally friendly large-scale projects that use advanced technologies.

Paraguay wished to further promote trade links with Việt Nam, Ambassador Luis Fernando Avalos, director-general of bilateral policies at Paraguay’s Foreign Ministry, told Vietnamese Ambassador to Argentina and Paraguay Nguyễn Đình Thao at a meeting in Asuncion on Friday.

State-owned tour developer Saigon Tourist will auction its entire holding of almost 363,800 shares of Jetstar Pacific Airlines Joint Stock Aviation Company this month, an amount equivalent to 1.14 per cent of the budget airline’s capital.

The United States Court of International Trade (CIT) reaffirmed the Department of Commerce's (DOC) final decision on the CS Wind Vietnam Co., Ltd’s (CS Wind) supposed dumping of utility scale wind towers into the US market, as both entities determined that the company has zero per cent dumping margin.

Market observers said in the first two months of the year the Government successfully issued bonds worth VNĐ54.11 trillion ($2.38 billion) for terms of five to 10 years.

With prices of tra skyrocketing, farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are scrambling to breed the fish, paying little heed to warnings from experts.

Việt Nam is targeting to earn between US$24 billion to $26 billion from leather and footwear exports by 2020 under a revised plan for leather and footwear industry development until 2025 with a vision to 2035.

Rent-A-Port Green Energy on Saturday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop wind and solar driven micro desalination, in a bid to solve the problems of salt water harming rice fields in the Mekong Delta region.

Sixty-one foreign-invested enterprises, along with 100 local firms which have high growth rates and provided superior products and services favoured by consumers, received the Golden Dragon Award and Vietnamese Excellent Brands on Saturday in Hà Nội.

Shares will continue to rise this week as investor sentiment remains positive, analysts say, driven by expectations that good earnings reports will be released in the “shareholder meeting season.”

The Việt Nam Real Estate Association (VNREA) has again proposed that the government formulate policies for developing small, inexpensive apartments lesser than 75sqm and cheaper than VNĐ15 million per sqm.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on Việt Nam’s real estate market would continue growth this year and beyond, according to Savills Việt Nam Ltd, Co.