Việt Nam was estimated to have a trade surplus of more than US$750 million during the first quarter of 2016, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has approved a price stabilisation campaign that will go on until March 2017.
The 2015 results of Vietnamese banking testified to an ongoing process of recognising and cleaning up problem assets, a credit positive, Moody’s said in a new report released midweek.
Vietnam's membership in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will yield economic benefits, especially to the country's manufacturing sector.
Vietnam’s investment in Laos has reached almost US$5 billion, the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment announced on Saturday, Tuoi Tre News reported.
HSBC Bank (Vietnam) chief executive Pham Hong Hai (right) and Kelvin Tan, chief executive of HSBC Thailand, say HSBC aims to capitalise on its presence in seven of the 10 Asean countries.
Ho Chi Minh City should become a national special economic zone, Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Dinh La Thang said.
VIETNAM will remain an attractive destination for labour-intensive industries for at least another five years, thanks to a big pool of young labour. Guaranteeing investment inflows is also the country’s membership of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a banker says.
Natural disasters have pulled down agricultural, forestry and fishery production of Vietnam, said a Vietnamese minister on Saturday, warning that if such problems linger, the country's annual economic growth rate is expected to stand at only about 5.45 percent in 2016.
For the first quarter of 2016, the country’s rice exports reached 1.59 million tons, an increase of 41.6 percent in volume and 40.8 percent in value against last year.
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