Việt Nam News

Proparco,  the private sector financing branch of Agence Française de Developpement (AFD), has granted a US$50 million loan to HDBank to finance green projects and promote sustainable development in Việt Nam.

The Australian Government has announced a grant of nearly A$1.4 million (around US$1 million) for four Vietnamese high-tech application projects in the field of digital transformation, through the Aus4Innovation Programme.

Tetra Pak has announced an additional investment of five million Euros in its 120 million Euro packaging material factory in Bình Dương Province on September 16.

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing in many provinces and cities across the country, the consumption of the Vietnamese motorcycle market has dropped sharply in the last five months.

 As the Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads, significantly disrupting production, firms are either experiencing or anticipating constraints on cash and working capital.

Viettel has successfully researched, tested and established 5G data transmission speed of more than 4.7Gb per second. This speed is 40 times higher than 4G speed and more than two times the existing 5G speed, making Viettel one of the fastest 5G telecomms networks in Asia.

The stock market is becoming a favoured and profitable investment channel for investors amid the COVID-19 pandemic but it also poses many challenges for regulators and market members.

The export value of Vietnamese tuna exports to the Israeli market by mid-August jumped by 34 per cent to nearly US$25 million compared to the same period last year, or accounted for 5.6 per cent of the total tuna export value, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

Long An Province has started to gradually reopen its economy, its Party Committee Secretary, Nguyễn Văn Được, has said.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) is concerned the COVID-19 pandemic would continue to affect State budget revenue in the coming months.

Recovery, digitalisation and sustainability are major economic cooperation objectives for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in a post-pandemic world, said Vietnamse deputy minister of industry and trade Trần Quốc Khánh during the 53rd ASEAN Economic Ministers' Meeting.

Businesses and households in the food and beverage business in HCM City said though they have been allowed to reopen they cannot meet the strict COVID-19 prevention requirements.

Shares tread water on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange on Thursday as slumps of some heavyweight shares bit into the market’s gain in the morning.

FrieslandCampina, one of the world’s largest dairy cooperatives, has celebrated its 150th anniversary of foundation.

GE Vietnam has donated 3,000 sets of personal protective equipment and more than 220 cartons of milk to support doctors and other healthcare workers on the frontline in the fight against COVID-19.

Despite impacts of COVID-19, the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) fundamentally fulfilled its set targets in the first eight months of this year.

State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) has paid nearly VNĐ6.9 trillion (US$300 million) to secure at least 31.08 per cent equity of the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.

As travel restrictions were put in place to control COVID-19 in Hà Nội, some residents find it difficult to purchase the must-have delicacy of Mid-Autumn Festival.