A delegation of Vietnamese businesses had a working visit to Argentina from September 8-11 to seek cooperation and investment opportunities in the South American country.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requires ministries, sectors and localities to reform their institutions, simplify administrative procedures, cut costs and remove barriers to export.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Investment and Trade Promotion Centre will organise the second HCM City Trade-Service-Tourism Promotion Conference in Savannakhet, Laos, in October to help Vietnamese businesses tap the Lao market and enhance co-operation between the two countries, a workshop heard on August 28.
The Customs Department of Ho Chi Minh City on August 27 deployed the Vietnam Automated System for Seaport Customs Management (VASSCM) for more than 60 businesses dealing in ports, warehouses and yards in the city.
The northern mountainous province of Cao Bang is mobilising resources to invest in improving infrastructure and build policies to promote border economic development, with the hope of creating breakthroughs in the trade and service sectors.
Vietnamese enterprises were updated on information related to the market and business community of Malaysia during an event in Kuala Lumpur on August 20.
Vietnam’s agricultural and aquatic exports to China are likely to face higher quality requirements and stronger competition from other ASEAN exporters although China’s demand for these goods is still on the rise, heard a meeting on August 18.
Bilateral trade turnover between Vietnam and the Czech Republic in the first half of 2018 recorded an expansion of nearly 14 percent compared to the same period last year, marking a successively stable growth rate of over 10 percent per year since 2015.
The Ministry of Public Security announced on August 9 that its investigative agency has decided to launch criminal proceedings against Phan Van Anh Vu and four others on the charge of violating regulations on management and use of State assets, causing loss and wastefulness in the central city of Da Nang.
SCG has signed loan agreements worth over 3.2 billion USD with six banks in Thailand to fund the construction of Vietnam’s first fully integrated petrochemical complex, Long Son Petrochemicals Company Limited.
Revenue to the State budget totaled 775 trillion VND in the first seven months of this year, equivalent to 58.7 percent of the yearly estimate and up 13.4 percent year-on-year, said the Ministry of Finance.
The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) rose 0.63 point to 960.23 points on August 6.
The third meeting of the Vietnam-Thailand Joint Trade Committee opened on August 2 in Hanoi to enhance bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
Myanmar has built a new companies law after amendment of its outdated Companies Act-1914 to adapt to the current age, registering an important milestone with its efforts to promote foreign investment.
The shortage of capital is hampering the operation of many small cashew factories in Vietnam.
Vietnam will see great momentum for stronger export growth in the second half of 2018, with its export-import turnover estimated to reach the 500 billion USD benchmark by 2019.
The total state budget revenue reached 651.7 trillion VND (28.7 billion USD) in the first half of this year, equivalent to 49.4 percent of the estimate and up 14.3 percent year-on-year, Deputy Minister of Finance Huynh Quang Hai reported at a meeting in Hanoi on July 18.
Foreign banks in Vietnam have been expanding their transaction networks and increasing their charter capital in a bid to increase market share, especially in the retail banking sector.
