Việt Nam News

Liquidity improved significantly last week and has now exceeded the recent 20-week average. This marked the second week of the event, showing that investor interest is improving.

The Vietnamese manufacturing sector remained in growth territory at the start of the third quarter of the year, but there were some signs of demand softening. As such, output, new orders and employment all increased at weaker rates than in June, according to S&P Global.

Tech is rapidly changing the e-logistics landscape, raising the need for Việt Nam to increase the application of advanced technologies to develop an efficient logistics industry to grab opportunities arising from e-commerce.

Capital account restrictions largely insulate interest rates in Việt Nam from global monetary tightening and the country’s policy rate is expected to rise 50 basis points to 4.5 per cent by end-2023, according to Fitch Ratings.

KBank President Pipit Aneaknithi said that KBank aims to be the first foreign bank in Việt Nam to offer fully-fledged 'digital product solutions' to all customer segments.

Experts urged wood exporters to diversify markets, standardise supply chains and be well equipped with trade defense knowledge in the face of increasing trade protectionism.

The winds of change are blowing through Việt Nam’s pharmaceutical retail industry with giants wrapping up investments to establish modern retail chains in a fast-growing market

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has removed COVID-related quarantine requirements for frozen processed seafood products imported for the purpose of reprocessing for export.

The rejection of Việt Nam’s new passport by some EU member countries is affecting HCM City tourism companies since their customers are unable to travel to those countries.

“Việt Nam’s economy is even stronger than we had expected at the beginning of the year, but that strength is not reflected by higher stock prices due to the [US’s] aggressive rate hikes and the recent regulatory crackdown in Việt Nam,” Michael Kokalari, chief economist at VinaCapital, has said in a report. 

RX Tradex Vietnam has partnered with the Japan External Trade Organisation, the Investment and Trade Promotion Centre of HCM City and the HCM City Centre for Supporting Industries Development to organise METALEX Vietnam and Supporting Industry Show simultaneously in early October.

Viettel Telecom has officially launched a tracking device called vTag, which Viettel hopes can compete with Apple's AirTag.

Vietnamese are willing to learn new digital skills in the coming years, a new research said.

The digital transformation week 2022 is set to take place in the central province of Thừa Thiên Huế on August 17.

The Ministry of Information and Communications reported that the number of Mobile Money subscribers has quadrupled since the service was launched in January this year, 67 per cent of whom were from rural, mountainous, border, island and remote areas.

Some 85 exhibitors with international brands are present at the ‘Mini Thailand Week’ that opened in HCM City on Friday.

Geopolitical tensions in some notable hot spots, anti-COVID-19 measures of global manufacturing hub China, and the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policies could damper Việt Nam's economic recovery, experts said at a business forum held in HCM City on Thursday (August 4).

Việt Nam’s retail sales of goods and services in July are estimated at VNĐ486 trillion (US$20.8 billion), up 2.4 per cent month-on-month, and 42.6 per cent year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office.