A Vietcombank office. The bank shares gained a total of 3.4 per cent last week. — Photo tinnnhanhchungkhoan.vn HÀ NỘI — Local stocks are expected to keep rising this week but their growth would be slower as goods news dries up. Việt Nam’s benchmark VN-Index on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange fell a total […]

  Pork products at a supermarket. The price of live hog in some Northern provinces reached over VNĐ95,000 per kilo in recent days. Photo vinanet.vn  HÀ NỘI — Transparency is key to better protect the interests of businesses and customers in the pork market. An official from the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Việt Nam Competition […]

Đồng Nai Province’s trade surplus increased by 43 per cent in the first four months of the year. — Photo baodongnai.com.vn ĐỒNG NAI Đồng Nai’s foreign trade in the first four months of the year topped US$10.8 billion, 2.67 per cent down year-on-year but with the surplus shooting up by 43 per cent, according to […]

  Customer information shared with service providers is sometimes unexpectedly leaked, raising the threat of cyber attacks. — Photo cafef.vn HÀ NỘI — Trương Quỳnh Mai was terrified when she received a phone call saying she had been a victim of fraud in Hà Nội and needed to go to the local police station. Mai gave her personal details […]

  Property firms were the top bond issuers in the first four months of this year. – Photo gocnhin.com.vn HÀ NỘI – Property firms were the top bond issuers in the first four months of this year, but the race of issuing bonds to raise capital in the context of tightened credit was creating risks as many […]

  Workers at EVN Cần Thơ check equipment. EVN recorded VNĐ394.9 trillion in net revenue last year, an increase of 17 per cent compared to 2018. — Photo EVN HÀ NỘI — Vietnam Electricity (EVN) reported a pre-tax profit of VNĐ12.5 trillion (US$535 million) last year, up 38 per cent year-on-year, the corporation announced on […]

  The inside of Vietage, a 12-seater train coach that will be added to the daily return service between Đà Nẵng and Quy Nhơn cities in early July. — Photo Courtesy of Minor Hotels HCM CITY — Global hotel management company Minor Hotels has collaborated with the State-owned Vietnam Railways Corporation to attach Vietage, a 12-seater luxury coach, to […]

  A 280ha land plot for building the Lộc An-Bình Sơn resettlement area for households who will move to make way for the Long Thành International Airport in Đồng Nai Province. — Photo thanhnien.vn  HCM CITY — The People’s Committee of Đồng Nai Province has approved a proposal to select the contractor for building technical […]

Phan Bích Tâm, national director of Mobile Marketing Association, speaks at an online seminar held yesterday in HCM City to discuss how businesses can take advantage of online marketing amid the pandemic. Photo courtesy of The Saigon Times Online HCM CITY — Businesses should take advantage of both online and offline platforms to increase their ability to adapt to […]

  A broker at work on Friday. Vietnamese shares fell slightly on Friday. Photo tinnhanhchungkhoan.vn HÀ NỘI — Vietnamese shares fell for a third day as selling increased on a large scale despite foreign buying. The benchmark VN-Index on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) dropped 0.65 per cent to close Friday at 827.03 […]

  Sơn La mangoes were sold at the provincial mango week in Hà Nội last year. The province has exported more mangoes to China this month. — Photo hanoimoi.com.vn HÀ NỘI — Thuận Châu District, Sơn La Province exported its first batches of 20 tonnes of mangoes to China on May 14. This district has […]

  A CP Việt Nam pork shop in Cà Mau Province. This company will build a pig slaughter plant in Hà Nội with the largest capacity in the northern region. — Photo thoibaokinhdoanh.vn HÀ NỘI — The CP Livestock Joint Stock Company (CP Việt Nam) expects to put a pig slaughter plant into operation at the […]

  A view of the east of Hà Nội by the Red River. Realty in the area is forecast to grow stronger this year. — Photo cafef.vn HÀ NỘI — The realty market in eastern Hà Nội is forecast to grow stronger than ever with important transport projects worth billions of dollars being built in the second half of the […]

  At the latest auction held this week, the State Treasury offered ten- and five-year bonds, each worth VNĐ2 trillion, and bonds with a maturity of five to seven years, each valued at VNĐ500 billion. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The State Treasury has raised over VNĐ43.5 trillion (US$1.89 billion) from Government bonds auctioned at the Hà Nội Stock […]

  Transactions at Techcombank. — Photo courtesy of Techcombank HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) received full disbursement of its inaugural US$500 million syndicated loan facility (the Facility). The Facility was signed on April 17 and approved by the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) on April 29. The Facility is […]

  Farmers of Hoàng Anh Gia Lai Agricultural JSC (HNG). In Q1 this year, HNG’s revenue nearly doubled the same period last year, of which the main contribution came from the sale of fresh fruits. — Photo haagrico.com.vn HÀ NỘI — Trường Hải Auto Corporation (Thaco) is due to buy nearly 26 million shares of Hoàng Anh Gia […]

Grab Food makes up 79 per cent of the Vietnamese food delivery market. — Photo Grab HÀ NỘI — Grab Food is the most popular food delivery application in Việt Nam with 79 per cent market share, a report by Q&Me, an online market research service, revealed. Now ranked second with 56 per cent, followed by Go […]

  An employee operates a cash register at the VNDirect Securities Corporation. Credit that banks are using to finance securities companies for margin lending remains at a relatively low level. — Photo tinnhanhchungkhoan.vn HÀ NỘI — Ministry of Finance’s proposal to increase the quota for credit poured into the securities sector is largely backed by market experts. The […]

A resort in Nha Trang. The hotel market is expected to face a severe decline in room occupancy due to the pandemic and will not recover until next year. Photo vietnam.travel HCM CITY — The hotel market in Việt Nam this year is expected to face a severe decline in room occupancy due to the COVID-19 pandemic and […]

  Grounded planes at Nội Bài International Airport. Việt Nam would temporarily halt consideration for new airlines until the aviation market has recovered. — VNA/VNS Photo Huy Hùng HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam will temporarily halt the consideration of new airlines until the aviation market has recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Minister of Transport Nguyễn Văn Thể. […]