Việt Nam News

Việt Nam wants to attract investment in hi-tech and environmentally-friendly fields, which are strengths of French investors, Lê Công Thanh, Counsellor in charge of investment in France told a roundtable discussing Vietnamese investments and exports.

The domestic retail price of petroleum decreased by VNĐ309 to VNĐ17,274 (77 US cents) per litre as of 3pm on Friday, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) said.

With the demand to import more than US$10 billion worth of apparel products each year, Russia is a market with potential for Vietnamese garment-textile businesses.

The first Electronics – Information Communications Technology Fair & Exhibition 2017 will be organised by HCM City next week.

Việt Nam will work with the member states of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement to reach a consensus on future orientations for the deal, Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng told a regular press conference in Hà Nội on Thursday.

Shares extended gains on the HCM Stock Exchange on Thursday but corrected down on the Hà Nội Stock Exchange given stronger profit-taking pressure.

More than 100 new models are on display at the 2017 Vietnam Motorcycle Show which opened in HCM City yesterday.

Building a strong relationship with franchisees is the basis for success in the franchise business, delegates said at a seminar in HCM City on Thursday.

A strategy is being developed to promote domestic trade by 2025 with a vision to 2035.

The Island district of Lý Sơn in the central province will start construction the first organic garlic farm with total investment of VNĐ4 billion (US$177,000).

With the glut of pigs forcing local pork prices down to levels comparable with imported ones, some food processing firms in HCM City have suspended imports and increased local purchases.

Microsoft on Thursday informed employees in Việt Nam it is enhancing its family leave benefits to ensure they have time to care for the people who matter most in their lives. 

The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) of Việt Nam dipped to 54.1 in April, a slight decline from March’s 22-month high of 54.6, reported Nikkei yesterday.

The ten ASEAN countries along with China, Japan and South Korea (ASEAN+3) are expected to experience moderate growth of around 5 per cent in the next two years despite external uncertainties.

The southern province of Đồng Nai shipped goods worth US$5.2 billion abroad from January to April, up 12.8 per cent from the same period last year.

Lê Hoài Quốc, president of Sài Gòn Hi-Tech Park (SHTP), has granted an investment certificate to BSB Investment & Development Co Ltd for the construction of the first silica and nano silica plant in Việt Nam.

As many as 5,000 delegates participated in the 50th Annual Meeting of Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday morning. 

Many commercial banks posted positive business performances in the first quarter of the year, earning high profits.