Việt Nam News

The country’s real estate prices has still been increased rapidly despite the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the past two years, which reduced the income of the majority of the population, experts said.

The South Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) in Hà Nội plans to organise an online trade to connect Vietnamese businesses and South Korean companies from Nonsan City, South Chungcheong Province next month.

Hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, hotel owners have been forced to put their properties up for sale at much lower prices, providing opportunities for investors who were betting on the tourism recovery when the virus was brought under control.

A conference to seek buyers of agricultural products and launch the harvest of longan for export in 2021 was jointly held on Thursday by the departments of Agricultural and Rural Development and Industry and Trade, and the authority of Chí Linh City of the northern province of Hải Dương.

Việt Nam should make haste in its effort to vaccinate its labour force in agriculture and food production, recommended a task force from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Deposit mobilisation by credit institutions in HCM City grew by 4 per cent as of July 31 to VNĐ3.02 quadrillion (US$132.5 billion), according to the State Bank of Vietnam.

Việt Nam’s stock market was mixed on Friday, with the VN-Index ending its long rally on losses of bank stocks in the last trading minutes.

Many towage and pilot service providers have reduced their prices amid the difficulties faced by maritime transport companies due to the slowing down in activities because of COVID-19, according to a report by the Việt Nam Maritime Administration.

Container shipping cost in Việt Nam has increased fourfold, even eightfold on certain high-demand routes compared to pre-pandemic level, said a logistics report by SSI Research.  

A business networking conference was organised virtually on Thursday to seek ways to boost the export of dragon fruit to India and Pakistan amid difficulties due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

VPBank has now been awarded the Achievement in Enterprise Risk Management in 2021 award by The Asian Banker for two consecutive years. The award has reaffirmed its leading position in the country’s risk management sector, comparable to the leading financial institutions in Asia.

The General Department of Taxation plans to launch the first version of an electronic tax mobile app (Etax-mobile) this month.

Bình Phước Province plans to repossess over 4,100 hectares of lands mostly from delayed projects for “national defence and socio-economic development,” its People’s Council has said in a resolution.

An Australia-funded project has chosen nine leading agritech scale-ups from overseas to enter the Vietnamese market with an aim of solving the country’s most pressing agrifood challenges, according to the Australian Embassy in Hà Nội.

The Committee for Management of State Capital at Enterprises (CMSC) has proposed merging two member companies of the Việt Nam Railways Corporation (VNR) in an effort to slash costs and improve efficiency as the industry struggles with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Banks at the end of July reported significant increases in first-half profits on strong credit growth despite pressures from the pandemic

SeABank will reduce interest rate by maximum one per cent a year for loans of its existing customers till the end of this year to share their difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The disbursed public investment declined in July due to the surge in COVID-19 cases, but it still grew 5.6 percent in the first seven months of 2021 as compared to the same period last year.