A sluggish period seems in store for the Government bond market. This follows the second November auction session at which the Vietnam State Treasury (VST) acknowledged only VNĐ140 billion (US$6.2 million) from bond sales out of a total VNĐ2 trillion ($89 million) on offer.
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President Trần Đại Quang and President Donald Trump witnessed the signing of co-operation agreements worth a total of US$12 billion, mostly in aviation, petroleum and seaports between Việt Nam and the US after their talks in Hà Nội on Sunday.
The APEC 2017 Economic Leaders’ Meeting ended on Saturday with leaders of 21 member economies adopting the Đà Nẵng Declaration that reiterated their commitment to multilateral trade that fosters inclusive growth and reaffirmed their confidence in the forum’s ability to tackle future challenges together.
Under the theme “Creating new dynamism, fostering a shared future”, APEC members are committed to strengthening co-operation and taking joint actions to foster regional economic linkages and growth for a dynamic, inter-connected and prosperous APEC community and promote an Asia-Pacific partnership for inclusive and sustainable development, said a joint statement issued by the 29th APEC Ministerial Meeting.
Leaders of APEC are determined to take bolder and sustained collective actions to inject new dynamism into APEC cooperation to promote sustainable, innovative and inclusive growth, deepen regional economic integration, realize the full potential of the business sector, particularly micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), and enhance food security and sustainable agriculture
Ministers of the 11 original signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have agreed on “core elements” of a new trade pact to be implemented without the United States.
President Trần Đại Quang has called for APEC member economies to bolster their leadership to find new drivers for growth, trade, investment, connectivity and ensure that benefits from globalisation and economic integration are equally distributed.
The Hà Nội People’s Committee has approved the urban design project in areas along Belt Road No 3. Accordingly, buildings in these areas could rise up to 50 storeys.
HCM City People’s Committee has asked relevant departments to tackle problems in granting house ownership certificates to overseas Vietnamese to encourage their investment into the real estate market.
Fifty one South Korean firms in sectors like manufacturing, travel, construction, water treatment, marine transport, POS software and hardware, trading, garment and textile and others are taking part in a Korea-Việt Nam job fair that opened on Friday in HCM City.
A bilateral trade agreement would significantly boost trade, investment and tourism between Chinese Taipei and Viet Nam, a senior official said yesterday.
Prices of apartments in the local market in the first 10 months of the year witnessed a downward trend, Hà Quang Hưng, deputy director of the Department Housing Management and Real Estate Market under the Ministry of Construction, said.
Shares closed the week on a positive note as large caps, especially Vinamilk, extended gains on the two national stock exchanges.
Shopee, an online shopping platform, recently announced that its parent company, Sea Limited, has listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Việt Nam News speaks with Pine Kyaw, Managing Director of Shopee Vietnam, about the listing and the company’s plans in Việt Nam.
Renewable energy firm Tín Thành Group has expressed a desire to become a strategic partner of Bình Sơn Refinery and Petrochemical Company Limited (BSR).
The European Union is ready to support Việt Nam’s seafood industry, but it has to review its fisheries management and address its shortcomings, the First Counselor of the EU Delegation to Việt Nam, Miriam Garcia Ferrer, told a meeting in HCM City on November 9.
The draft Law on Special Administrative, Economic Units needed to be substantially revised to make it feasible and to fully exploit resources for boosting economic development, according to a verification report from the National Assembly (NA) Law Committee.
The first blockchain Hackathon in Việt Nam with the theme “Vietnam Blockathon – Building Blocks to Vietnam’s Future” is being held this month in Hà Nội and HCM City, aiming to create widespread public awareness and engagement with blockchain technologies and nurture an emerging Blockchain ecosystem in Việt Nam.
A foreign investor, who did not want to be named, bought all 48.3 million shares of Vinamilk offered at an auction at the HCM Stock Exchange on Friday.
A quarter-century of diplomatic relations between Việt Nam and South Korea has yielded impressive progress, especially in investment and trade, said Kim Jaehong, Chairman of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) at the Việt Nam-Korea Business Partnership Forum held on Friday in Hà Nội.
