Việt Nam News

Livestock farming firms would be riding high on the back of higher pork prices and growing meat demand in 2023.

On the serviced apartment market, occupancy of 81 per cent rose by four percentage points quarter on quarter and 12 percentage points year on year. That has nearly reached the pre-COVID (or the quarter of 2019) figure at 82 per cent.

The industrial production value of Kiên Giang Province is more than VNĐ44.6 trillion last year, reaching 105.3 per cent of the plan, up 13.7 per cent compared to 2021.

MoIT also called for the fuel price cycle to be shortened from 10 days to 7 days, on Thursday every week (except for public holidays).

HCM City received US$6.8 billion in remittances last year, a slight decrease compared to 2021 but still accounting for 48% of foreign currency deposits at its credit institutions.

Under a report released recently, Viet Dragon Securities Company (VDSC)’s analysts said the interest income growth of the banking industry in 2023 will slow due to the impact of low credit growth and a decreasing net interest margin (NIM).

Rising selling pressure increased in the latter half of Tuesday’s session pulled the market down, despite recovery of some blue chips.

The city’s industry and trade sector will deploy a number of measures to enable it to always stay ahead of trends, helping the city maintain its role as the economic locomotive and take the lead in innovation in the country, according to the city Department of Industry and Trade.

The IMF will always accompany Việt Nam in post-COVID-19 recovery and development, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IFM) Antoinette Sayeh pledged, expressing her hope for stronger cooperation with Vietnamese agencies, particularly the Economic Commission.

In the context of rising interest rates and rising US dollar, many port and shipping companies are confronting difficulties, but there are still beneficiaries.

Last year was a challenging one for the cashew industry, with exports falling from the previous year, but 2023 might be even worse, according to the Việt Nam Cashew Association (VINACAS).

Standard Chartered Bank expects Việt Nam’s strong growth of 7.2 per cent in 2023 and 6.7 per cent in 2024, following a solid recovery to 8.0 per cent in 2022.

Falling freight rates are a bane for global carriers, but a boon for Vietnamese agricultural exporters, who had their profits eroded by high freight rates in the early months of 2022.

Việt Nam remained an attractive destination for foreign investment last year with FDI flow pouring into the country uninterrupted despite a global economic slowdown, according to the Ministry of Finance. 

Shares inched higher on the first day of the week on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange, propped up by Vietcombank’s gain while other blue chips weakened.

Vietnamese seafood exports to China are expected to boom after China opens its borders and lifts all isolation measures to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic this month.

The northern province of Vĩnh Phúc commits to accompanying and creating all favourable conditions in accordance with Vietnamese law for Japanese businesses, investors and partners to implement co-operation and investment activities in the locality.

FRENZ Brainband was invented by Earable Neuroscience, a Vietnamese deep technology startup based in the US and Việt Nam, led by Professor Vũ Ngọc Tâm – Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.