Việt Nam News

The Việt Nam International Jewellery Fair opened yesterday in HCM City, showcasing a wide range of diamonds, gemstones, gold and silver jewellery and the latest jewellery-making equipment.

Over the past five years, Singapore’s investments in Việt Nam have nearly doubled. Singapore’s Trade and Industry Minister, Lim Hng Kiang, emphasises the development of longstanding economic relations between Singapore and Việt Nam, which have yielded concrete outcomes, including creation of the Việt Nam-Singapore Industrial Parks (VSIPs). Oxford Business Group talks to Minister Lim about these economic relations.

The Orient Joint Stock Commercial Bank, consultancy Fintek Company Limited and its Malaysian principal TESS International yesterday signed an agreement for an anti-money laundering project at OCB.

Shares retreated on the two local exchanges as investors sold off their investment portfolios on worries the Republican Donald Trump’s surprising win in the US Presidential election could shake global political and economic stability.

It is necessary to place automobile manufacturing, assembly and import in areas where enterprises must satisfy specific conditions to do business in, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Đặng Huy Đông said on Tuesday.

A Vietnamese light industry zone was inaugurated in Serpukhov city, Russia’s Moscow Region on November 8, hosting garment and textile firms that employ 280 workers, most of whom are Vietnamese.

Mexicans bowed their heads in disbelief, the peso tumbled and the government prepared a response as Donald Trump, whose anti-immigrant rhetoric infuriated the country, won the US presidential election.

Shares fell on the two local exchanges this morning as investors were kept on edge waiting for the final result of the US presidential election.

Việt Nam is a potential market for firms specialising in processed agricultural products from South Korea.

Việt Nam’s Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund (SMEDF) will partner with Korea's Small & Medium Business Corporation (SBC) to promote development of SMEs.

The US dollar sank and stocks plummeted as mayhem came to world markets on Wednesday as investors faced the possibility of a shock win by Republican Donald Trump that could upend the global political order.

Shares slightly increased yesterday on the two local exchanges with modest trading liquidity as investors were waiting for the result of the US Presidential election.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV) has proposed to hike aviation service fees by 15 to 40 per cent from 2017.

The Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) yesterday announced the ranking of Top 100 Sustainable Businesses 2016, the first of its kind, showing the improvement of Vietnamese firms in awareness of sustainable development.

The country’s steel industry has great development potential, according to the Việt Nam Steel Association.

Vietnamese leather and footwear firms are implementing new production and business strategies to make the most of the opportunities provided by free trade agreements (FTAs), especially with Eurasia.

Some commercial banks have reported high profits in the first nine months of the year thanks to a restructuring effort which focuses on services instead of lending as previously done.

There will be no real estate bubble in the last quarter of this year, the HCM City Real Estate Association has assured.