Việt Nam News

Rakuten Viber has announced the launch of Việt Nam tiến lên, a virtual platform to engage with football enthusiasts and experience new football-themed features.

Escalating geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine would have a short-term impact on the Vietnamese stock market, but the market still has positive growth prospects in the long term thanks to stable macro factors.

To stabilise the oil and gas prices and reduce the burden of rising input costs for enterprises, the Government should take into account the reduction of some kinds of taxes and fees imposed on the products.

hough the economic recovery can give non-life insurers opportunities to improve revenue, it will be still difficult for them to increase profits as the majority of their investment portfolios are bank savings and government bonds, whose interest rates are forecast to remain at low levels this year.

The cashew export target this year is US$3.8 billion, only slightly up from 2021, according to the Việt Nam Cashew Association.

Sixty-four business leaders and enterprises have received the Asia Pacific Enterprise Awards (APEA) 2021 for their entrepreneurial and business excellence amidst the pandemic. 

The Vietnam Post Corporation (VNPOST) will cooperate with the Central Committee of the Việt Nam Farmers' Union (VFU) to support 7.5 million farming households to introduce their products for free on its e-commerce platform Postmart.vn in 2022.

Việt Nam's CPI has increased by 1 per cent in February and 1.42 per cent from the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office of Viet Nam.

Several major foreign direct investments (FDI) projects increased their investment capital by a hundred million dollars in the first two months of 2022, according to the Foreign Investment Agency.

Indices struggled on Monday with the market benchmark VN-Index falling down, as investor's risk appetite was weak due to rising geopolitical tensions.

Bayer has presented the latest developments in the ongoing transformation of its pharmaceuticals business aimed at delivering long-term, sustainable business growth by bringing forward new options for patientsat its annual Pharma Media Day.

A trade promotion programme between representatives of 58 enterprises from Incheon, Jeonju, Daegu, Gyeongbuk of the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Vietnamese potential firms will be held virtually on March 21-25 by the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) in Hà Nội.

HCM City plans to speed up digital transformation to achieve its goals of becoming a digital government and smart city this year.

After the Mercantile Exchange of Việt Nam (MXV) was allowed to connect with international exchanges, the domestic commodity trading market was organised to operate stably and sustainably, creating the premise for breakthrough developments.

A study of consumer sentiment in the domestic real estate market in the first half of 2022 was launched by Batdongsan, the leading real estate trading website in Việt Nam.

Việt Nam’s Government slashed the value-added tax (VAT) rate from 10 to 8 per cent earlier this month – a move that cost the State budget VNĐ49.4 trillion (US$2.2 billion) but, along with other support, is expected to help boost the pandemic-hit economy.

Loans of pandemic-hit enterprises will enjoy an interest rate cut of 2 per cent under a Government support package to remove difficulties for the businesses.

The aim of making HCM City an international financial hub depends on greater financial liberation that the country has to achieve by 2030 at least, experts say.