Việt Nam News

Local businesses are struggling to recruit new employees due to a labour shortage caused by the fourth wave of COVID-19, according to authorities and business leaders.

The move comes after some stocks’ prices, recently, showed signs of rising unusually.  

Local exports of iron and steel reached 1.53 million tonnes with a value of nearly US$1.5 billion in August, marking the month with the highest export value of those products.

Shares narrowed gains towards the end of the trading session on but still managed to post slight gains, witnessing a large divergence among large-caps.

The T&T Group has signed several MoUs and contracts with US partners within the framework of President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc’s working trip to the US.

HeroVerse, a Việt Nam-based NFT game project built on the blockchain, has successfully raised US$1.7 million from leading blockchain and NFT investment funds including DaoMaker, x21, AU21 Capital, Raptor Capital, IceTea Labs.

The Central Committee of the HCM Communist Youth Union (HCYU) in co-operation with the Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Co-operation (SABECO) and its Bia Saigon brand on Thursday presented support packages worth VNĐ5 million in cash to 600 small food and beverage businesses that are facing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic in HCM City.

Vingroup and Google Cloud have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support Vingroup's ongoing digitization and innovation strategy.

 President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc received Arun Savkur, CEO of the US’s Quantum Group on September 22 in New York (local time), witnessing the handover of the cooperation agreement between the group and a Vietnamese joint venture.

After more than two years of implementing the Planning Law effective from January 1, 2019, ministries, sectors and localities need to strengthen cooperation and share information among them to further improve the investment and business environment.  Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyễn Chí Dũng spoke to the local media about this issue.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued a decision to investigate the evasion of trade remedies for cane sugar products originating from Thailand.

Việt Nam has ranked 44th out of 132 countries and economies in the Global Innovation Index (GII) and maintains its leading position out of the 34 lower-middle income economies. 

As Việt Nam moves toward recovery, the development of a productive and diversified private sector will become more imperative given scarce public resources

Delivery service companies will have to test their staff with rapid antigen tests provided by the health sector, and update the testing results into the city’s shared database beginning Friday (Sept 24).

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines is set to receive its permit from US authorities for conducting regular direct flights to the US.

The sale of Vietnamese cement products reached 70.7 million tonnes over the past eight months of 2021, up 4 per cent year-on-year amid the COVID-19 pandemic which had negative impacts on many other industries.

Banks have been promoting the mobilisation of medium- and long-term capital through bond issuance to meet the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s requirements on capital adequacy ratio (CAR).

Many businesses in the Southwest region have maintained production to ensure export growth, despite having to apply social distancing measures due to the COVID-19 outbreak