Việt Nam News

Gia Vy in District 2 and her daughter were choosing school supplies at a bookshop in HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District.

Việt Nam’s rubber plantations need to obtain sustainable management certifications in order to raise product value and enter global markets, participants said at a workshop held in HCM City on Monday.

Lê Hà of Hà Nội, an online sellers who are conducting trade via Facebook, feels anxiety as she has received a message from tax authorities inviting her to come and declare tax.

Australian food, rice processing and information technology companies want to accelerate co-operation and expand operations in Việt Nam, according to Australian officials and business representatives who met yesterday in Sydney with Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ.

Vietnamese shares fell for a third session in both local markets yesterday, driven down by securities firms, energy companies and property developers.

State-owned Bình Sơn Refinery and Petrochemical Company Limited (BSR) has completed the overall plan for the upgrade and expansion of the Dung Quất Oil Refinery.

Việt Nam’s tra fish sold at Aeon supermarkets in Japan is listed among “TopValu” products, which are goods of superior quality.

The local stock market is forecast to experience another week of correction but the decrease will likely slow down with divergence based on the second-quarter earnings results.

Soon after the State Bank of Việt Nam cut the reference rate by 0.25 percentage points, several banks have followed suit, lowering interest rates on loans to enterprises in five priority sectors.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) is going ahead with its plan to increase environmental protection tax on petroleum from the current VNĐ1,000-4,000 to VNĐ3,000-8,000 per litre, despite objections from other ministries and the public.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment is targeting an economic growth rate of 6.4 per cent to 6.8 per cent for Việt Nam in 2018, according to a document sent to ministries and local authorities with instructions to develop the socio-economic plan for 2018.

The equitisation of State-owned enterprises in HCM City has been progressing at a snail’s pace partly because their managements are dragging their feet, experts have said.

Vietnamese property market is in a dire need to improve transparency in market information to attract investment and develop sustainablity, experts said.

More than 2,000 young businesses, speakers and students joined in the second International Start-up Conference and Exhibition in the central city yesterday, sharing experience and ideas in panel and round-table discussions, talks and fireside charts among domestic and international experts.

Shares closed the week’s trades down on the two stock exchanges on rising investor caution about a steeper decline without support information.

The Government has assigned the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to build a development roadmap for a competitive coal market as there are new coal suppliers.

The central bank on Friday held an online conference to prepare for the implementation of the scheme to settle non-performing loans (NPL) and restructure credit institutions in the 2016-20 period.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has given the northern province of Quảng Ninh the go-ahead to develop the Vân Đồn Economic Zone as a special administrative-economic unit.