Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will directly assess and supervise the development of the US$10.6 billion Hoa Sen Cà Ná steel making complex in the south-central province of Ninh Thuận, an official said.

The southern province of Tây Ninh aims to increase economic growth and farmers’ incomes by becoming a high-tech agricultural hub for the region, according to Trần Lưu Quang, the provincial Party secretary.

Local pharmaceutical companies should improve their competitive advantage before Việt Nam signs the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement in order to avoid losing their regional market share, experts said.

Đinh La Thăng, secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee, told a meeting of business leaders in Seoul last week that the city would create more favourable conditions for South Korean investors in HCM City. 

The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) will continue to encourage the practice of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as a solution to dealing with ailing credit institutions.

Việt Nam expects to export frozen head-on shell-on shrimp to Australia for the first time, according to an official of Việt Nam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

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Shares declined on the two national stock exchanges yesterday, driven by trading of large exchange-traded funds in their third-quarter portfolio arrangements.

The Ministry of Finance has issued a document on tax payment rules for Dutch-based Uber International Holding B.V for its car hailing service in Việt Nam.

Thirty-four small and medium-sized businesses in District 1 received total bank loans of nearly VNĐ3.1 trillion (US$139.1 million) at preferential interest rates under the banking-enterprise linkage programme.

Many commercial banks have recently raised their deposit interest rates in an attempt to satisfy new State Bank of Việt Nam’s regulations that are due to take effect in 2017.

Việt Nam’s biggest dairy company, Vinamilk (VNM), is seeking to buy second company in the United States as part of  its accelerating merger and acquisition (M&A) strategy, Bloomberg reported.

Ousmane Dione became the country director for the World Bank (WB) in Việt Nam on September 12.

Officials of Hà Nội and Moscow are calling on enterprises from the two cities to promote investment between the two cities.

French software company Linagora and Hanel DTT’s joint venture will support the northern province of Quảng Ninh in developing an e-government (Egov) and training human resources.

The National Financial Supervisory Committee has said that in the year-to-date the financial system has ensured that money supply is adequate thanks to the banking sector’s plentiful liquidity.

Remittances to HCM City in the first eight months of this year rose nearly 6 per cent year-on-year to reach US$2.9 billion.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc chaired a meeting with CEOs of leading Chinese business in Nanning, Guangxi, yesterday.

Poor management of risks and weak supervision of banks were the roots of the largest problems that Việt Nam’s banking system is facing, experts said during a workshop.