Việt Nam News

The pangasius industry has brought in US$2.4 billion in export turnover in 2022 and the number this year can exceed $3 billion if Việt Nam pushes for deep processing. Dương Quốc Nghĩa, chairman of the Việt Nam Pangasius Association, talks to Việt Nam News reporter Tố Như about this issue.

WIth the launch of the World Logistics Passport initiative in Việt Nam, the domestic logistics sector will reap more successes, optimising and sharing the interest of the programme amid extensive international integration.

Việt Nam will remain an important link in global supply chains and a destination favoured by many businesses, said Tim Leelahaphan, Standard Chartered's economist for Thailand and Việt Nam, on Tuesday.

Foreign flows into Bắc Giang accounted for 26.6 per cent of the country’s total and was 8.4 times that of the same period last year, according to the report.

State Secretary of Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Erling Rimestad talked with Việt Nam News reporter Nguyễn Hằng about cooperation  in aquaculture and seafood industry in the future on the occasion of his official visit to Việt Nam

HOSE was overrun by gainers with 242 stocks on the increase, against 85 faring badly. Among the stocks, 19 hit ceiling prices whereas five sat at the other end.

A number of banks have offered for sale debt and collateral to recover and handle bad debts in the first half of last month.

The fifth International Exhibition and Conference for Horticultural and Floricultural Production and Processing Technology opened in HCM City on March 1, showcasing fresh flowers, fruits and vegetables and technologies used in their production and processing.

Fifty booths of big denim manufacturers from more than 10 countries are displaying their products at the fifth edition of the Denimsandjeans.com Việt Nam exhibition in HCM City from March 1 to 2.

It is critical to promote digitalisation in the traceability of farm produce as Việt Nam aims to build a transparent, multi-valued integrated agriculture sector.

The group of the four biggest State-owned banks (Big4) have launched preferential loan packages with interest rate reductions of up to 3 per cent per year to lower short-term lending rates to only 7 per cent per year.

This activity contributes to the implementation of the national target programme on building new rural areas for the 2021 – 2025 period.

Đồng Nai, Việt Nam’s top banana exporting province, is expected to ship over 500,000 tonnes of the fruit this year, 25 per cent higher than last year.

After an impressive growth in 2022, the company said to pay cash dividend at rate of up to 30 per cent.

The call comes as durian prices hit an all-time high in recent months.

Fuel retailers are finding themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place. They have to buy fuel without a discount and suffer a loss, or refuse to buy it and get a fine.

February’s consumer price index (CPI) increased by 0.45 per cent over January, driven by higher fuel and housing prices after Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday, GSO's data on Tuesday showed.

Support forces from pillar stocks and foreign capital inflows help the VN-Index escape the recent downward trend.