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Vietnam Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) announced on March 22 that it appointed Luong Thi Cam Tu, a board member of Eximbank, as the new Chairwoman of the Eximbank’s Board of Directors in the 2015-2020 tenure.

Two former leaders of the Vietnam-Russia oil and gas joint venture Vietsovpetro have been given prison sentences for “abusing position and power to appropriate assets”.

Vietnam has failed to improve labour productivity over the last 10 years according to experts at the conference on enhancing national competitiveness.

Higher prices of coal and exchange rate differences were cited among the major reasons for state-owned Electricity of Vietnam decision to raise electricity prices.

More than 1,000 workers at a wholly Taiwanese-invested company in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau have gone on strike to demand for salary and meal quality improvement.

Investor sentiment toward emerging East Asia’s local currency bond markets has improved but there are persistent concerns about financial stability in the region, including ongoing trade conflicts, according to the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) latest issue of the quarterly

Vietjet Air has begun selling tickets for three new routes linking the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho to Hai Phong in the north and the central provinces of Nghe An (Vinh city) and Thanh Hoa.

Retail electricity prices have been ratcheted up by 8.36% from today, March 20, from a current VND1,720 per kWh.

Vietnam has set a target to bring down power losses to less than 6.5% by 2025 under a recently adopted national programme on economical and efficient use of energy for the 2019-2030 period.

The Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi recorded the highest office yield in the world for the second half of 2018, with a market yield of 8.57 percent, according to the Savills World Office Yield Spectrum.

An official from the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has announced that Vietnam now ranks fourth globally, first in Southeast Asia, and second in Asia in seafood exports, with products now available in

The northern province of Quang Ninh’s authorities have approved the pre-feasibility study for an undersea tunnel project crossing Cua Luc Bay to link the eastern and western parts of Ha Long City.

2020 is believed to be a do-or-die year for banks since the SBV has decreed that they must all meet global capital adequacy norms, according to analysts.

Several steel businesses from the Republic of Korea (RoK) have outlined their plans to promote investments in the Vietnamese market, according to the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI).

Vietnam now ranks fourth globally, first in Southeast Asia and second in Asia in terms of exports of seafood, and its products are now available in over 170 countries and territories worldwide.

The Ministry of Transport is planning the construction of a railway route which will go through China’s Hekou County.

Vietnam shipped 719,259 tonnes of crude oil abroad for 337.3 million USD in the first two months of 2019, up 7.1 percent in volume but down 7.9 percent in value compared to the same period last year.

More airlines in Vietnam have launched international routes with big promotional campaigns.

The route between the coastal city of Da Nang and South Korea’s capital Seoul has topped the list of the ten fastest-growing passenger routes in the Asia-Pacific region from Routesonline, the organizer of the world’s leading aviation network development