Việt Nam News

The snack company Mondelez Kinh Đô Vietnam recently kicked off the Tết (Lunar New Year) season 2021 campaign, bringing new products to the market.

The Saigon Beer - Alcohol - Beverage Corporation (SABECO) has recently launched “Tết Gắn Kết”, a Tết corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme that represents the next phase of the “Rise with Việt Nam” programme.

Vietnamese shares struggled to stem a bearish mood on Wednesday with VN-Index surpassing the 1,130 points but selling pressure still weighed down on the overall market.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc asked experts to seek a new driving force for development during a working session with the National Advisory Council on Financial and Monetary Policies and the economic advisory group on Tuesday.

The Việt Nam National Administration of Tourism, Việt Nam Mobile Telecom Services Corporation (MobiFone) and the northwest mountainous province of Hà Giang's People's Committee signed a co-operation agreement on Wednesday to develop provincial tourism through digital transformation and smart travel.

Hà Nội would focus on promoting trade and industry in the 2021-25 period to make trade a high-added value sector in the capital city’s services industry in an effort to develop Hà Nội into the international trade centre of Việt Nam.

The COVID-19 pandemic greatly impacted on commercial activities in domestic and global markets last year, meaning Việt Nam needs solutions to support local businesses to develop the domestic market. Minister of Industry and Trade Trần Tuấn Anh spoke to Vietnam News Agency about these issues

Public investment will focus on key national projects with important roles in enhancing regional links and creating new drivers and room for economic growth, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyễn Chí Dũng has said.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) recently issued a directive on measures to ensure essential consumer goods are available during the upcoming Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday and to stabilise the market.

To help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) recover from the pandemic Mastercard has launched the Digital Acceleration for Small Businesses microsite across most of its Asia Pacific websites with information and resources on how to digitalise and run businesses more efficiently.

With Tết approaching, more and more people in HCM City are shopping for furniture for home or for use at parties.

The insurance industry is forecast to continue gaining double-digit growth this year thanks to new bancassurance contracts signed late last year and the recovery of the economy.

The strategic partnership between Việt Nam and Thailand is developing strongly and comprehensively in all fields, especially economic, trade and investment co-operation.

Việt Nam's economy is likely to experience a strong bounce back in 2021 with GDP growing at 6.9 per cent in the best-case scenario in which the country must be able to secure significant FDI investment boosts coupled with a strong recovery of the global economy, according to a forecast by the Vietnam Institute of Economics (VIE). 

The State Securities Commission of Việt Nam (SSC) has ordered the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) and securities firms to apply short-term, mid-term and long-term solutions for overload orders which forced the exchange to halt trading since the end of last year.

Domestic airlines will add more night flights before, during and after the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday to meet increasing passenger demand.

Nestlé Vietnam has been awarded the certificate of merit by Đồng Nai Province People’s Committee for its outstanding contributions to the State budget in 2019 at a conference to review tax payment activities in 2020 and honour top taxpayers in 2019.

Shares bounced back slightly in the afternoon trade but the VN-Index still lost 5.11 per cent - the biggest daily retreat since the first quarter of 2020.