Việt Nam News

Dragon Capital's aggressive stock acquisition of FPT Retail (FRT) over the past year is likely aimed at the Long Châu pharmacy chain, the main growth driver of FPT Retail.

The city’s enterprises have affirmed their strong growth by playing a key role in export activities, gradually reducing dependence on FDI enterprises as export turnover reached $9.5 billion last year, accounting for a proportion of 57 per cent, up 3.7 per cent.

The amended law now allows businesses to pay annually with those who already made their one-time payments for the lease offered the option to switch to the new system.

Việt Nam's export of agricultural products recorded impressive growth in the first month of 2024 and is expected to see a breakthrough in the whole year.

Foreign investors were still net buyers on the market, net buying VNĐ129.8 billion on both main exchanges.

About 85 per cent of the rapidly growing companies in Việt Nam are committed to the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) standard, creating an increase in demand for green-standard office space in the market.

Việt Nam is currently Canada's largest trade partner in ASEAN, with bilateral trade nearing 14 billion CAD (US$10.37 billion) in 2023. It is also an important partner of Canada in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) .

The Hải Dương provincial People’s Committee on Monday held a ceremony to grant investment registration certificates to eight investors who committed over VNĐ2.2 trillion (US$89.65 million) in nine projects in the province.

To boost credit growth, instead of only allocating a part of credit growth quota for banks at the beginning of the year as previously, the SBV this year has assigned the entire credit growth target of 15 per cent for banks in early January.

Passengers and their family, friends will have the opportunity to travel with Vietjet’s reasonable tickets during the flight period from April 1 to November 30, 2024, it said.

The first container of pickled daikon in 2024 from the northern province of Hà Giang was exported to Japan on February 19 within the cooperation in the value chain linkage between Hà Giang and the Vietnam Misaki Co Ltd.

Good Way Cayman Co Ltd from Taiwan (China) held a groundbreaking ceremony for a large-scale plant manufacturing computers and their peripheral equipment at the Liên Hà Thái Industrial Park in the northern province of Thái Bình on Monday.

Hòa Bình Construction Group announced on February 19 that it has won bidding packages to develop five social housing projects worth US$72 million in Kenya. The group will serve as the main contractor responsible for both the design and construction of housing and infrastructure systems for the projects which total 3,400 apartments.

An Giang province exported 13 tonnes of flat-seeded mango to the Republic of Korea (RoK). This is the first batch under an export contract signed between the GAP Cù Lao Giêng Cooperative in Chợ Mới district and the Hoàng Phát Fruit Ltd. Co.

The Northern Midlands and Mountains ranked fifth out of six economic regions of the country in terms of foreign investment attractiveness.

As of the end of 2023, Mobile World Investment Corporation (MWG) held VNĐ24.3 trillion in cash and cash equivalents.

In 2023, the country's largest commercial banks reported nearly US$25 billion in profit. Despite the positive figure, banks were reported to have scaled back on their growth targets this year, citing cautious approaches and higher loss provisions setup compared to previous years. 

The province has coordinated closely with relevant agencies to complete necessary procedures for granting codes to fruit packaging establishments and fruit growing areas for exporting to China and some other markets.