Việt Nam News

The benchmark VN-Index on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange gained 0.26 per cent to close Friday at 1,168.47 points.

The General Department of Việt Nam Customs recently issued an action plan to implement Resolution 02/NQ-CP of the Government to improve the ranking of the trading across borders index by 10 to 15 spots compared to 2019 in the 'Ease of Doing Business' rankings of the World Bank.

An Phát Holdings (APH) has handed over VNĐ20 billion (US$851,000) support to the northern province of Hải Dương buy vaccines for in the fight against COVID-19.

The Mekong Delta province of An Giang boasts strengths in economic development, especially high tech agriculture, Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình said while attending a ground-breaking ceremony for a dairy farm project of TH Group in Tri Ton district on Saturday.

Việt Nam’s agriculture sector is aiming to be among the 15 most developed countries in the world, in which the agricultural processing sector ranks among the top 10 countries by 2030.

Private banks have posted a significant growth in credit market share in the past five years.

Hoàng Việt Anh, FPT's deputy general director, will be chairman of FPT Digital and Trần Huy Bảo Giang, FPT director on digital transformation, will be its general director.

Six investment licences and one investment proposal project at Đà Nẵng Hi-Tech Park and Industrial Zones worth more than US$280 million have been granted to domestic and foreign investors.

The spectre of rising inflation haunts the Western world, very much blunting the joy over vaccine rollouts. In contrast, worry is building that Việt Nam is set to experience the opposite for the first time.

Việt Nam's bird-nest exports are expected to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars when the world's largest market, China, opens up this year.

The northern province of Bắc Giang is improving a master plan on the development of industrial parks (IPs) and complexes, as well as land use planning, according to its provincial Party Committee.  

The Vietnamese e-commerce market is forecast to continue to boom in 2021, with revenue surpassing last year's figure.

Sacombank continues to collaborate with IBM for transforming its security operations centre to strengthen its data security infrastructure.

Southeast Asia will need 4,400 new airplanes valued at US$700 billion to support expanding demand for air travel over the next 20 years, said Darren Hulst, Boeing vice president of Commercial Marketing.

Vietnamese shares stayed positive on Friday on the back of strong buyding demand, going opposite to the downturn of regional stock markets.

Credendo Group’s offices in Germany and Austria have published a study to evaluate the level of risk in Việt Nam, which emphasised that the Southeast Asian country is continuing its successful economic story after its good performance in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.

Representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the US state of West Virginia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Thursday to accelerate co-operation in the economy, trade, and energy.

Despite negative performance due to strong fluctuations of Việt Nam’s stock market in January, big investment funds in the market remain optimistic.