Việt Nam News

As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, the looming climate crisis has fallen down the agenda, with efforts to stave off future environmental catastrophe waylaid in favour of immediate public concerns.

SHB is fully converging favourable factors for breakthrough growth thanks to its abundant financial health, determination to innovate comprehensively and aspiration to be a leader.

The exodus of migrant workers will cause severe labour shortage for HCM City and southern provinces.

Analysts from securities companies are quite optimistic about the market this week as their expectations on rallies have not changed.

About 47 out of 234 traditional markets in HCM City with traders of fresh food, dry food and essential goods have opened.

VinFast, a Vietnamese automotive manufacturer established in 2017, has announced that it will unveil two of its latest EV models at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show.

Minister of Finance Hồ Đức Phớc held a meeting on October 15 with executives from SOVICO Group and FPT Group to discuss the use of IT and digital transformation in the financial industry and assess a new trading system they created for the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange to clear its congestion.

The HCM City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HDBank) has unveiled an online preferential credit package of VNĐ5 trillion (US$220 million) with an interest rate of only 4.99 per cent.

The digital transformation is an irreversible trend according to Nguyễn Phú Tiến, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Information and Communications.

The capital city of Hà Nội plans to bury telecommunications and electricity cables on 300 streets in 11 districts and towns by 2025, reported the municipal Department of Construction.

Though the pandemic has seriously impacted the world and Viet Nam, it has accelerated the supply chain shift by diversifying, regionalising the production chain and scaling up global value chains.

Education stocks that have small capitalisation, low liquidity and ill-diversified products have been seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Asia Pacific region is the largest contributor to global payments revenues, with analysts expecting it to exceed US$1 trillion by 2022 or 2023, the seventh Cybersecurity Weekend held by Kaspersky on Thursday heard.

Việt Nam is expected to achieve its rice export target of 6.3 million tonnes worth US$3.2 billion this year due to high global demand and an increase in export prices.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) needs to give more support to enterprises in establishing stable and reliable distribution channels for expanding trade promotion activities and consumption markets, especially for agricultural products.

The market finished mixed in the last trading session of the week, with the VN-Index once again failing to breach the 1,400-point level. 

“From home” might be the phrase of the year as it has frequently been used in almost every sector during COVID-19, especially the fourth outbreak of the coronavirus in Việt Nam. 

Vietnam National Chemical Group (Vinachem) will continue to withdraw its capital from four subsidiaries in 2021.