Việt Nam News

Domestic software developers are expecting that North America will become the second market for Vietnamese outsourcing companies, after Japan.

Nexttech group of technopreneurs – Peacesoft Vietnam – and Malaysia's Haspro Holding have started pouring millions of US dollars into an online shopping website known as weshop.co.id, hoping to increase opportunities for cross-border shopping.

The University of Economics and Business (UEB) of Việt Nam National University joint the Japan society for Information and Management (JSIM) to organise the 2016 Asia Pacific Conference on Information Management in Hà Nội on from October 21 to 22.

Deposit Insurance of Vietnam (DIV) has officially operated a new information and communication system for its business process related to deposit insurance.

Minister of Information and Communications Trương Minh Tuấn on Tuesday signed a licence allowing Gtel Mobile Joint Stock Company (Gtel Mobile) to provide 4G telecommunication service in Việt Nam.

Vinafood 1 Flour One Member Company Limited, a member of state-owned Vietnam Northern Food Corporation (Vinafood 1), will auction over 8.2 million shares, equivalent to a 34 per cent stake.

Finding suitable technological solutions to turn rice husk into amorphous silica, a feedstock for many industries, would add huge value to the rice industry, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) which record prolonged losses and lose equity capital may be put up for sale or declared bankruptcy according to law.

Shares sank for a second day on the two national stock exchanges on declining liquidity that showed investor caution ahead of October economic data expected to be released next week.

The government has issued a decree on Việt Nam’s list of preferential import tax rates for the 2016-18 period to cut more than 5,000 tariff lines to zero.

A one-day seminar to promote trade and investment activities between Việt Nam and France under the Việt Nam-European Union Free Trade Agreement was organised in Paris on Thursday.

Việt Nam’s trade office in Germany and the Trade Promotion Agency (TPA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) organised a trade and investment promotion forum on October 18.

The People’s Committee of Vĩnh Phúc expects this year’s provincial budget collection to be as high as VNĐ26 trillion because of business stability and rise in foreign investment in the region.

Moody's Investors Service on October 19 concluded its review of eight Vietnamese banks.

Shares moved down yesterday after a two-day rise as large-cap stocks sank on the two markets.

Vietnamese enterprises, especially small- and medium-sized ones, should increase the use of e-commerce to boost their exports and showcase their products to potential partners globally, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

Improving enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) would assist the process of technology transfers, develop new products and motivate the creativity of the business community, speakers said during a conference in Hà Nội.

Việt Nam’s economy is expected to grow at 7 per cent from around 6 per cent currently, while private consumption should increase by 5 per cent per annum from the current 4.4 per cent, says an expert.