Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Finance is to start a process to study the effect of taxation on gold transactions, said deputy minister of finance Nguyễn Đức Chi in a press conference on Tuesday in Hà Nội.

The Masan Group Corporation (MSN) has been named in Fortune magazine’s first ever Fortune Southeast Asia 500 list. 

Benchmark indices inched higher on Wednesday, marking a second consecutive session of gains, despite persistent strong net selling by foreign investors.

There is ample room to promote trade between Việt Nam and Russia’s Far East, head of the Vietnam Trade Office Branch in the Far East region Nguyễn Hồng Thanh said in an interview with the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) ahead of the state visit to Vietnam by President Vladimir Putin.

Việt Nam’s exports expanded about 13.8% year-on-year in the first half of this year, and imports rose 18.4%.

Since the beginning of the year, Techcombank has successfully raised VNĐ14 trillion through bond channels.

Fnest and VPS have undertaken the subdivision of apartments and villas, enabling investors to acquire a stake in real estate with a minimal outlay of just VNĐ10,000 per share.

With Việt Nam and Russia having ample room for cooperation in the energy sector, Zarubezhneft and Petrovietnam should prioritise investment, research, and technology mastery in producing new types of green fuels derived from renewable energy sources

HSBC has levelled up its strategic partnership with Gene Solutions, a biotechnology company, through a social loan, which allows Gene Solutions to continue expanding its healthcare services to Việt Nam and ASEAN’s citizens.

Vietcombank, VietinBank and BIDV this month signed a credit contracts worth US$1.8 billion with Vietnam Airports Corporation (ACV) to fund the ACV’s Long Thành International Airport construction project.

Sabeco has been listed in Forbes Vietnam’s Top 50 Best Listed Companies of 2024, marking its seventh consecutive inclusion.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tâm has called on US cloud computing enterprises to look into developing large-scale data centres in HCM City and Đà Nẵng.

Out of the 19 enterprises with approved equitisation plans, only five have so far established steering committees and working groups to oversee the process.

The Government has set a credit growth target of 5 per cent for the first six months of 2024 and 15 per cent for the whole year.

Efforts are being intensified in HCM City to support traders at traditional markets to boost sales and capture a larger market share.

Following evaluations by Fortune, PAN Group (Ticker: PAN) has been recognised as one of the 70 Vietnamese enterprises featured in its Southeast Asia 500 listing, ranked as one of the largest companies in Southeast Asia.

In the country, 85-90 per cent of enterprises are small- or micro-sized and have great difficulty getting credit, with only 40 per cent managing to do so.

Shipments of canned tuna products, bagged tuna and frozen loin/fillet increased by 44 per cent, 24 per cent, and 7 per cent.