Business

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked the Mekong Delta province of An Giang to continuously improve its investment environment, with attention paid to human resources quality and infrastructure, while addressing an investment promotion conference held by the province.

Firms' designs to break into the promising street food market by the difficulty to establish a name for themselves and deal with food safety issues.

The Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) will open a logistics centre for container shipping on December 17 as part of moves to restructure the State-owned firm, according to Deputy Director General Do Thi Ngoc Trang.

Budget carrier Vietjet Air launched daily flights between Ho Chi Minh City and Osaka on December 14, making it the airline’s second direct air route connecting Vietnam and the Japanese city, after Hanoi-Osaka route.

The authorities in HCM City are going to suspend or adjust 180 projects which are suffering from slow progress, according to official document sent to related agencies.

The ASEAN +3 Young Entrepreneurs Forum opened in Ho Chi Minh City on December 13, with its agenda focusing on the role of young businesses in high-tech agriculture startup and innovation.

Grab Vietnam said that they might be interpreting the law differently after the Ministry of Industry and Trade concluded that Grab violated competition law in Vietnam.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Viet Nam earned about US$8 billion from exporting seafood in the Jan-Nov period of 2018, a year-on-year rise of nearly 5%.

Economies in developing Asia and the Pacific are weathering external challenges thanks to robust domestic demand, while inflationary pressures are abating, according to a new report from the Asian Development Bank.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced the conclusion of the investigation over Grab's acquisition of Uber in Vietnam.

The Asian Development Bank and Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam signed a USD300 million loan agreement to support the growth and productivity of local small and medium-sized enterprises.

Vietnam’s GDP is forecast to remain at 6.8 per cent this year, higher than the projected figure of 6.3 per cent for emerging markets in East Asia and the Pacific, according to the World Bank’s bi-annual economic report on

Leaders of the northern province of Hoa Binh handed approval decisions on nine projects and signed Memorandums of Understanding with 15 investors on 19 projects with total registered capital of VND94 trillion (approximately US$4 billion), at an investment promotion

Vietnam was expected to remain one of the top ten remittance receivers in 2018, according to the latest edition of the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief released last weekend.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a USD188 million loan to improve and upgrade 198 kilometers of roads in the mountainous northwest region, which has the highest poverty rate in the country.

If the proposal of Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) to build the third terminal for Tan Son Nhat International Airport is approved, the construction of the airport will be started in the third quarter of 2020.

The Golden Top Group, Kaohsiung Medical University Chung - Ho Memorial Hospital, and Formosa Medical Clinic on December 10 held a Memorandum of Understanding Ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City.

The alliance of Vietnamese taxi firms would operate on the platform EMDDI developed by the Vietnam National University, Hanoi. - Photo baodautu.vn

Businesses of Vietnam and Greece were encouraged to promote cooperation in the trade of their products of advantage, especially in maritime transport, logistics, shipbuilding, sea port development, tourism and agricultural product processing, at a Vietnam-Greece Business Forum held in