Việt Nam News

Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has announced plans to restart international commercial flights starting July 15. This is to meet growing demand from Vietnamese citizens that want to study and work abroad and foreigners that want to return home.

THACO donated 63 specialised trucks each for transporting COVID-19 vaccines and carrying out mobile vaccination and taking samples at the ceremony to launch the national COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Hà Nội on July 10.

VinFast on Monday officially kick-starts its branches in the US, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands in preparation for its launch in those markets, moving closer towards the goal of becoming a global smart electric car company.

Remittances to HCM City topped US$3.2 billion in the first half of the year, a 22.34 per cent increase year-on-year.

Many local insurers have recorded positive results in the first half of 2021 following the growth momentum of 2020. However, since the country entered the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic with complicated developments, insurers have also become more cautious about business prospects in the second half of the year.

The Board of Directors of Licogi 13 JSC (LIG) plans to transfer 100 per cent of their stake in Quảng Trị Solar Power Company Limited to VN Green Holdings Pte Ltd, a company specialising renewable energy under Dragon Capital group.

Việt Nam's total import turnover of livestock products in the first six months of 2021 is estimated at US$1.82 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8.9 per cent.

According to the State Bank of Việt Nam’s department of credit for economic sectors, as of April credit injected into rural and agricultural development had reached VNĐ2.3 million billion (US$100 billion), or 24.6 per cent of the banking sector’s total loans.

IFC’s investment will help OCB improve its outreach to SMEs in Việt Nam.

The Hà Nội Stock Exchange has approved the lisitng of shares of PetroVietnam Phước An Port Investment And Operation Joint Stock Company on the Unlisted Public Company Market (UpCom) from July 14.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoIT) has said it is cooperating with the Ministry of Finance to consider the provision of tax incentives to encourage the development and use of electric vehicles in Việt Nam.

An Bình Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ABBANK) will issue more than 369.6 million ordinary shares this year to increase its charter capital by over VNĐ3.69 trillion to VNĐ9.4 trillion (US$409.96 million).

Even though demand rose quickly after the VN-Index fell to 1,340 point-level, selling forces still dominated leaving analysts from securities firms expecting the market to slide to lower levels this week. 

Digital World JSC (DGW) expects second quarter revenue to reach VNĐ4.16 trillion (US$181.2 million) and with a profit of VNĐ101 billion, up 61 per cent and 110 per cent respectively over the same period last year.

MB posted the record low bad debt ratio of 0.76 per cent in the first half of the year in its history so far. This has been also the lowest level in the banking industry.

The Ministry of Construction will continue to limit the floor-area of new apartments to no less than 25sq.m, according to a new circular on technical regulations for apartment buildings.

Even though he has invested in real estate for more than 10 years and owns houses from the north to the south of Việt Nam, Nguyễn Kiên still lives in a rented house in Hà Nội's Cầu Giấy District.

Retail stocks are becoming attractive assets to many investors after a sell-off on Tuesday despite the market benchmark VN-Index falling.