Việt Nam News

Local pharmaceutical companies should improve their competitive advantage before Việt Nam signs the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement in order to avoid losing their regional market share, experts said.

Đinh La Thăng, secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee, told a meeting of business leaders in Seoul last week that the city would create more favourable conditions for South Korean investors in HCM City. 

Việt Nam expects to export frozen head-on shell-on shrimp to Australia for the first time, according to an official of Việt Nam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

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Shares declined on the two national stock exchanges yesterday, driven by trading of large exchange-traded funds in their third-quarter portfolio arrangements.

The Ministry of Finance has issued a document on tax payment rules for Dutch-based Uber International Holding B.V for its car hailing service in Việt Nam.

The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) will continue to encourage the practice of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as a solution to dealing with ailing credit institutions.

Ousmane Dione became the country director for the World Bank (WB) in Việt Nam on September 12.

Officials of Hà Nội and Moscow are calling on enterprises from the two cities to promote investment between the two cities.

French software company Linagora and Hanel DTT’s joint venture will support the northern province of Quảng Ninh in developing an e-government (Egov) and training human resources.

The National Financial Supervisory Committee has said that in the year-to-date the financial system has ensured that money supply is adequate thanks to the banking sector’s plentiful liquidity.

Remittances to HCM City in the first eight months of this year rose nearly 6 per cent year-on-year to reach US$2.9 billion.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc chaired a meeting with CEOs of leading Chinese business in Nanning, Guangxi, yesterday.

Poor management of risks and weak supervision of banks were the roots of the largest problems that Việt Nam’s banking system is facing, experts said during a workshop.

Several provisions of a new draft circular on imported autos impose unfair restrictions on small and medium-scale firms, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) has said.

Vietnamese shares may remain volatile this week as foreign investors continue to withdraw from local stocks on the review of foreign investment funds’ portfolios and expectations of a US interest rate hike this month.

Việt Nam and the United States look forward to significant opportunities for economic co-operation, especially in trade and investment, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyễn Chí Dũng said this week.

After one week of raising funds, Drone Race, the game designed by a team of young Vietnamese, has received 300 orders and US$43,750 from investors at Indiegogo, the largest global site for fundraisers.

Vietnamese newspaper and website owners and app developers must know how to approach the advertising budgets of global brands and be aware of the mistakes that website owners often make.