It is necessary for housing developers, contractors, banks and State agencies to co-operate in disclosing information about real estate projects to avoid panicking buyers, experts have said.

Vietnamese retail firms are being forced to become more serious about their development strategy and improving their competitiveness following the penetration of foreign retailers into Việt Nam with M&A deals.

Vietnamese shares yesterday retreated from a nine-day rally, driven by profit-taking, while oil and gas firms suffered losses as crude prices pulled from a one-month high after a two-day gain.

Việt Nam Competition Authority (VCA), under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, has urged mobile phone users to contact service providers when they notice abnormal account activity or suspect value-added services being activated automatically.

Although the Vietnamese Good Agriculture Practice (VietGap) was issued for seafood breeding five years ago, enterprises are not enthusiastic about using this standard as a qualification for their product exports.

Some major commercial banks are considering lowering lending interest rates after cutting đồng deposit rates this week.

State should eliminate price ceilings for milk products and control price of milk products from input material, experts said.

Japanese authorities have adjusted schedules for checks on antibiotic residues in seafood products imported from Việt Nam, according to the National Agro-Forestry- Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (Nafiqad).

Vietnamese shares extended gains yesterday, rescued by oil and gas firms during the end of the session after oil prices rebounded strongly on OPEC’s first eight-year output reduction.

Việt Nam is Australia’s fastest growing ASEAN trading partner as a result of trade deals like ASEAN Australia New Zealand FTA and proposed ones like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and Trans-Pacific Partnership, HSBC has said in a recent report.

The country’s exports are estimated to reach US$128 billion in the first nine months of this year, up 6.7 per cent year-on-year, according to the latest statistics from the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Up till the end of August, more than 28 trillion (US$1.25 billion) was disbursed from the VNĐ30 trillion housing stimulus package, according to the Ministry of Construction.

US would remain to impose anti-dumping duty on Vietnamese frozen warmwater shrimp to the US market after the second five-year sunset review, reported the Việt Nam Competition Authority (VCA).

Furniture exporters should become more aware of import market regulations and standards in various countries, delegates said at a seminar held in HCM City yesterday.

The deputy minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT), Trần Quốc Khánh speaks to the media about the ministry’s efforts in administrative reforms.

An increasing number of Japanese firms are interested in investing in Việt Nam, particularly in the agriculture sector, Tanoi Masahiko of Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said at a meeting on Tuesday.

Stricter punishments were essential to prevent fake and poor-quality fertilizers which were now rampant and alarming in Việt Nam.

Vietnamese shares extended gains yesterday, driven by the banking sector on expectations that lower short-term deposit rates would boost lending for the economy and local businesses.