Việt Nam News

Retailers have announced a slew of promotions during the long Liberation Day-May Day holidays.

The business community faces a lot of difficulties and challenges and the Government would like to hear about and resolve them, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc told a seminar in HMC City yesterday where he met with top business executives.

Major banks lowered their lending interest rates following official calls to ease business operations and assist the market.

Việt Nam’s real estate market needs the state’s policies to developing the market for a longer period to ensure sustainable development in the future.

The southern city of Tây Ninh is the last point in the Cửu Long (Mekong River) Delta region but from the perspective of ASEAN connectivity the city is the starting point connecting Việt Nam with the Southeast Asia region, said Phan Chánh Dưỡng, lecturer of the Fulbright Economic Teaching Program.

Nguyễn Thanh Trúc of HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District was looking to buy porridge for her sexagenarian parents at a supermarket.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ asked all ministries to learn more about the stock market.

Australia has officially commenced a review to import fresh dragon fruit from Việt Nam.

Disbursement of foreign direct investment (FDI) surged to an estimated US$4.7 billion in the first four months, a year-on-year rise of 12 per cent, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.

Building a national brand name for Vietnamese rice would help increase rice export value and prestige in the world market, the rector of Cần Thơ University said yesterday at a seminar held in HCM City.

Vietnamese shares slid further on both local markets for a second day as investors continued to look for profits in recently-gaining stocks and market liquidity dropped sharply ahead the national holiday.

Việt Nam’s total exports saw a year-on-year increase of 6 per cent in the first four months of this year to US$52.87 billion, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Vietnamese semiconductor firms should roll with the region's players to build up a local ecosystem and move up the regional supply chain, officials at Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) have said.

Việt Nam’s economic growth is expected to edge up further to 6.8-6.9 per cent in 2016 and 2017, thanks to the continued strong performance of domestic private demand, according to an economic and social survey for Asia and Pacific 2016.

The Hanoi Telecom JSC received the Prime Minister’s decision approving its transformation from a Business Corporation Contract (BCC) to become Vietnamobile Telecommunication JSC in Hà Nội on Tuesday.

Twenty-four Vietnamese enterprises are participating in the 2016 Global Seafood Expo in Brussels, Belgium, on April 26-28.

The agro-forestry-fisheries export turnover in April was estimated at US$2.97 billion.

The country welcomed approximately 3.25 million international visitors in the first four months of this year, up 17.8 per cent against the same period last year, according to the Việt Nam National Aministration of Tourism (VNAT).