Việt Nam has good potential in farming swifts for their edible nests, but authorities should make zoning plans and regulations for the industry like they do for the husbandry industry to ensure its sustainable development, according to experts.
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre cannot compare with south-eastern provinces such as Bình Dương and Đồng Nai in terms of investment conditions or geographical advantages, but it has attracted investors by helping them every step of the way, the director of the province’s Department of Planning and Investment said.
The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) has cut several interest rates for the first time since 2014 in order to support business and boost economic growth.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) is consulting and seeking comments from relevant ministries and local authorities on the borrowing plan to expand Dung Quất Oil Refinery, online newspaper vneconomy.vn reported.
The Vietnam Steel Corporation (VNSTEEL) reported that the majority of steelmaking companies have managed to turn a profit in the first two quarter of 2017, despite some rough patches in March and Apirl.
The Aluminum-Bauxite Complex Project in Central Highlands' Lâm Đồng Province has started seeing profit, expecting to earn VNĐ1.2 trillion (US$52.6 million) per year, following three consecutive years of losses.
The People’s Committee of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province last week held a meeting with relevant departments, agencies and localities on the handling of eight delayed tourism projects.
The northern province of Quảng Ninh attracted more than US$47 million in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first six months of 2017.
A derivatives market, which will start operations in August, is expected to draw more capital to the Vietnamese securities market for the rest of this year, experts told a seminar in HCM City last Saturday.
The VN-Index declined for the first time in the last six weeks due to heavy profit-taking pressure but market analysts expect the key index will rebound this week following the releases of the second-quarter business earnings.
The Business Startup Support Centre (BSSC) in HCM City jointly held a conference on startup culture with Hoa Sen University (HSU) and the International Vietnamese Academics Network (iVANet), aiming to facilitate sustainable entrepreneurship within universities and advocate favourable policies for startup creativity.
The Việt Nam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has decided to form teams to handle its loss-making projects since the snail-pace progress of the process has displeased the Government.
Recently government bonds have seen strong foreign buying despite the facts that the dollar is expected to continue appreciating due to the US’s plan to raise interest rates a few more times in the near future and that Việt Nam does not have incentives to attract foreign investment in its bonds.
Việt Nam developed 70,900 national domain names (.vn) in the first quarter of this year, equivalent to 393 domain names per day.
Small and home-based business owners who use the Facebook platform to sell products and have revenue of more than VNĐ100 million ($4,500) per year will be taxed at five per cent.
Apartment sales in Ha Noi declined in the second quarter, while their supply increased in the first half of the year, a new report says.
Credit institutions have received some VNĐ200 trillion (US$8.9 billion) yearly from interest rates of bank loans, according to the Ministry of Finance’s estimates.
Automaker BMW can access its batch of cars being held at HCM City’s port for maintenance but the firm must replace its local dealer Euro Auto due to violations of the country’s regulations, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc at a conference with German businesses in Berlin on Thursday.
Sài Gòn Securities Inc (SSI) was the top brokerage by market share on the HCM Stock Exchange in the second quarter.
