The HCM Stock Exchange and Nguyễn Tất Thành University yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding for co-operation in research, training, communication and brand development.

The Việt Nam Textile and Garment Association (VITAS) has suggested the Government and related authorities to review and adjust the development planning for the industry as the planning to 2010 with vision towards 2030 is obsolete.

Shares advanced yesterday on the two national stock exchanges, buoyed by investor expectations of a specific roadmap for the Government to sell its capital proportions in many big listed companies.

The Saigon Beer, Alcohol and Beverage Corp (Sabeco) may get permission to be listed on the stock exchange in the near future, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) said in a statement.

Việt Nam is paying special attention to business development, with the government promoting start-up movements so that nationwide businesses will double to a million within the next five years. Phạm Thị Thu Hằng, general secretary of the Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), speaks to Vietnam News Agency about the matter.

Longan growers should apply technologies in production to improve their fruit’s quality and value, heard attendees at a conference to promote longan consumption held in the northern Hưng Yên Province’s Khoái Châu District on Tuesday.

The Anti-Dumping Commission under the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science has initiated an investigation into dumping and countervailing duty on aluminium extrusions exported to Australia from Việt Nam and Malaysia.

The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) expects to submit to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc a project to restructure credit institutions between 2016 and 2020 in Q3 of 2016.

Several domestic retailers have been actively changing their business strategies to improve their distribution channels after big foreign supermarkets such as Big C and Metro increased discount levels to 20-25 per cent.

Foreign investment funds saw an average growth of 11.28 per cent in the first half of 2016, according to Hà Nội- based DoBF Stock Academy’s latest report.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) will create the best possible mechanisms and policies for high-tech parks as well as businesses of the Asian Science Parks Association (ASPA) to expand cooperation and improve their scientific-technological capacity in Vietnam.

Consumption of vegetarian food significantly increases just before and on the full-moon day of the seventh month on the lunar calendar.

Domestic steel prices are expected to rise in the near future, thanks to increasing construction demand, the real estate market's recovery and high consumption, Việt Nam Steel Association (VSA) said.

Hong Kong looks forward to stronger ties with Việt Nam, its chief secretary for administration, Carrie Lam, has said.

Establishing representative offices in Việt Nam is considered as a safe initial step before the traders conduct a series of complex legal procedures with high cost for the establishment of wholly foreign-owned enterprises.

Shares failed to sustain the morning rises on HCM City’s market yesterday as blue chips lost ground on strong foreign selling.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường said that it was necessary to identify shrimp a national strategic product as a stimulator to boost farming, enhance quality and build a globally-recognised Vietnamese shrimp brand.

The people’s committee of the central Bình Thuận Province yesterday approved a project to upgrade the route connecting Phan Thiết City’s downtown area to Hàm Tiến-Mũi Né area.