Việt Nam News

Tech giants like Google, Facebook, YouTube and Netflix will have to pay taxes in Viet Nam and they can do it online.

E-commerce platform Shopee has unveiled the second edition of the code-from-home Shopee Code League as part of long-term efforts to prepare workforces for the future, following on from a successful debut last year that attracted drew 21,000 participants from across the region. 

The sustainable development of the business community is an important foundation, contributing to the nation’s prosperity, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc told a meeting of outstanding Vietnamese entrepreneurs and intellectuals.

The resurgence of COVID-19 has hit demand for consumer goods and services in HCM City, with revenues in February falling by 6.4 per cent, according to Government data.

Many agricultural cooperatives have achieved high safety standards and quality in recent years thanks to their increasing adoption of technology, enabling them to achieve sustainability and improve farmers’ incomes.

For Vietnamese products to enter foreign distribution channels, it was necessary to be more professional and stable in product quality, said experts.

‘City within a city’ is likely to become a new trend in the housing market this year, experts predict.

The southern key economic zone is increasingly attracting investments from foreign investors who have already tasted success there.

The HCM City People’s Council has kept the official land prices unchanged since market prices did not change between 2019 and last year.

Fifteen types of export commodities will be put under strict scrutiny by Vietnamese customs authorities starting this year as part of a campaign to fight origin fraud, illegal transhipment and unfair trade practices, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

HCM City wants to attract more private investment instead of relying on official development assistance (ODA) to build its remaining metro lines, but experts have said that it faces a difficult challenge.

The Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) is considering stopping the allowance of order amendments or cancellations during trading activities to reduce system overloads which have troubled traders recently, the bourse said.

Shares edged higher on the last trading day of the week as the VN-Index pared losses.

Shinhan Bank Vietnam Ltd and Khôi Nguyên Education Investment and Development JSC (KNE) have signed a strategic and comprehensive partnership agreement to provide modern banking services and products to students, their parents, and teachers and staff at schools in the KNE network.

Vietnamese businesses are displaying their products via an online pavilion at the 24th International Engineering & Technology Fair (IETF 2021) of India.

Covering an area of 25,000sq.m, the factory is designed to produce 2,000 tonnes of woven fabric each year for export. Construction is scheduled for completion in six months.

Cybersecurity and policy experts discussed strategies to beef up cyberdefences in the Asia Pacific during the pandemic and beyond at an online forum this week.

Most rubber companies are setting cautious profit targets for this year over forecasts that rubber prices will remain at low levels.