Việt Nam News

The number of non-cash payment transactions through the National Payment Corporation of Việt Nam (NAPAS) was increased nearly double in 2022 compared to the previous year.

The VN-Index had gained a total of nearly 49 points in the last three sessions.

With a dim outlook for the banking industry, most securities firms expect conservative profit growth for banks in 2023.

After a large-scale network failure in some areas of HCM City, MobiFone restored service at about 10 pm on January 4.

Economist Nguyễn Minh Phong forecasted that interest rates in Việt Nam would not fall until the second half of 2023. He also said keeping interest rates high might be a double-edged sword for the economy.

Vietnamese real estate began to decline in the late months of 2022 as a result of a change in the governmental stance on bank credits and corporate bonds.

However, this year, there are still many challenges in implementing targets for the State budget. Minister of Finance Hồ Đức Phớc spoke to Vietnam News Agency about these issues.

Almost four in five travelers in Asia are eager to travel internationally in 2023 as concerns around inflation and rising costs will likely not stop travelers from packing their bags, reported a new study conducted by Klook in November 2022 in nine markets, including Việt Nam.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment will continue to create favourable investment climate to efficiently raise and use every resource for development, stressing that the public – private partnership must be promoted in which the public investment played role in activating other social resources.

After stocks soared in the first trading session of the year, some investors sized chances to take profits, pressuring the market.

If credit rating wasn't made mandatory for bond issuers just because of few credit rating agencies, then the corporate bond market would not make any progress in the next 20 years.

With up to 50 per cent cashback for online shopping, LazCard is now the leading Ecom card line. This rate includes 20 per cent points accumulation for cashback on spending and 30 per cent from online shopping vouchers via Lazada every Friday and special days exclusively for LazCard cardholders.

The number of ICDs which had been put into consideration accounted for just 10 per cent of the plan and they altogether handled just around 10 per cent of the total cargo volume.

Foreign and domestic companies are eyeing the development of data centres in Việt Nam, as demand for data storage in the country is increasing.

The reference price on the first trading day of VNZ shares is VNĐ240,000 a share (US$10.18). At the price, VNG has a market capitalisation of nearly VNĐ8.6 trillion, which is less than $350 million, much lower than VNG's previous billion-dollar valuation.

Despite huge challenges, the seafood sector in 2022 posted a new record in export value of US$11 billion, up 24 per cent year-on-year and 22 per cent higher than the year’s target of $9 billion.

The Vietnamese insurance market currently has 79 insurance businesses.

More than 60 per cent of all small and medium businesses globally have experienced cyberattacks over the course of 2022.