Việt Nam News

Vietnamese e-payment solutions provider NextPay.vn, a member of the NextTech Group, on Wednesday launched its digital transformation ecosystem Next360.vn for small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) and micro SMEs (MSMEs).

The VinFuture Foundation has announced that more than 500 prominent scientists, universities, and organisations from 36 countries representing six continents have registered to become nominators for the VinFuture Prize since the foundation launched its call for nominations on February 3.

Vietnamese authorities have begun a two-year trial of mobile money as they seek to promote non-cash payments and improve transaction efficiency in the economy.

There are more and more violations in e-commerce activities, with counterfeit goods, contraband goods and those infringing intellectual property rights all problems, experts have said.

Senior experts and economists gathered for a seminar held in the capital city yesterday to assess Việt Nam’s economy development and its prospects in 2021and announced the Vietnam Annual Economic Review 2020.

ABC World Asia, the Singapore-based private equity fund specialised in impact investing across Asia, has announced it has led a US$24-million Series B round in Kim Dental.

FLC Group Joint Stock Company expects to achieve more than VNĐ1.1 trillion (US$47.71 million) in pre-tax profit in 2021.

ASEAN and some of the bloc's closest trading partners have been forecast to enjoy an economic expansion of 6.7 per cent this year and 4.9 per cent in 2022.

The HCM City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank has reported a pre-tax profit of VNĐ5.82 trillion (US$251.8 million) for last year, up 15.9 per cent from 2019.

The Government should develop more policies for Vietnamese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to help them take advantage of the EU–Việt Nam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), according to experts.

Many banks have announced their dividend payout plan in shares to raise capital and improve competitiveness amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.

The country's export turnover increased 22 per cent to reach US$77.34 billion in the first quarter, while the trade surplus was estimated at $2.03 billion.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment is drafting a national green growth strategy and plans to submit it to the Government by June to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy in Việt Nam.

Eleven large corporations have registered to study investment in areas in Đà Nẵng after the central city announced information on its adjusted planning by 2030 with vision until 2045 at a ceremony on Monday.

Việt Nam had 29,300 newly-established enterprises with total registered capital of VNĐ447.8 trillion in the first quarter of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Việt Nam's stock market increased on Tuesday as many large-cap stocks rebounded in the afternoon session. 

Military-owned Viettel Group, one of Việt Nam’s leading digital telecom firms, has made preparations to trial mobile money services.

Bamboo Airways has received slots at Heathrow Airport in London to fly six times a week from Hà Nội and HCM City starting in May from the Airports Council of the UK, a representative of the carrier has announced.