Business

Some sort of breakthrough is desperately needed to bolster the contribution of local enterprises in auto support industries.

Vietnam’s top e-commerce shopping event, Online Friday 2019, has been launched, promising huge deals and hundreds of genuine products.

Bamboo Airways will receive its first wide-body Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner at Noi Bai International Airport in December, the first of many such aircraft to join its fleet at the end of 2019 and early 2020.

Airlines have added more seats and air tickets prices are increasing as the Tet holiday approaches.

Officials in Hanoi have proposed to increase the number of international air routes to the capital to attract more tourists.

Vingroup has announced that its retail and agriculture units, VinCommerce and VinEco, will be merged with Masan Consumer, a subsidiary of Masan Group, to create a new retail and consumer goods company, purportedly the largest in Vietnam.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai has warned localities of illegal pig and pork imports from Cambodia and Thailand.

Vietnam’s startup ecosystem could develop strongly over the next five years with venture capital and government assistance, Eddie Thái, general partner of the venture capital firm 500 Startups Vietnam, said at a Startup Viet Summit.

Vietnamese businesses invested US$458.8 million in 31 foreign markets in the first 11 months of 2019, reported the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The budget carrier Vietjet Air on December 2 announced a new route linking Ho Chi Minh City with Thailand’s Pattaya city via U-Tapao airport.

Vietnamese businesses invested 458.8 million USD in 31 foreign markets in the first 11 months of 2019, reported the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Masatsugu Asakawa has been unanimously elected President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) by its Board of Governors.

The Ministry of Construction (MoC) has just released its first quarterly report on the domestic real estate market.

Vietnamese shares edged up yesterday as investors sought out stocks that had been hit hard in the previous session.

The US holiday shopping season officially opened with a deluge of "Black Friday" promotions but the frenzied crowds of the past have thinned out with the rise of e-commerce.

Vietnam’s consumer price index in November posted its highest monthly rise, at 0.96 per cent due to soaring pork prices following the African swine fever which pushed up prices of related foods.

Car dealers at many firms in Vietnam are complaining about slow sales as it approaches the end of 2019.

Vietnam’s tourism industry has seen a new record serving around 16.3 million international visitors, up 15.4% on-year.

Vietnam Supporting Industries Forum 2019 held on November 28 in Hanoi.