Business

HCM City’s metro lines are facing various issues with procedures, disbursement, and cost overrun.

A group of 70 Hong Kong businesses operating in the fields of finance, education, architecture, law, garments, electronic components, and footwear will visit Vietnam for an exchange with Vietnamese partners on March 21 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Corporation (MobiFone) and shareholders of multimedia company Audio Visual Global (AVG) on Monday decided to cancel the share transfer agreement between the two companies.

Vietnamese people spent up to a total USD15 million to import beef from Australia and the US in the first two months of this year, according to the General Department of Customs.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern agreed on major directions to boost future Vietnam-New Zealand cooperation in all fields during their talks in Auckland on March 13, the Vietnam News Agency reports.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam’s real estate sector has continued rising, showing positive signs for the sector.

Vietnam remained the third largest trading partner of Laos in 2017, trailing Thailand and China, according to the Vientiane Times.

Japonica rice is set to become one of the main export rice categories of Vietnam in the coming time, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).

Dong Nai People’s Committee has continued to use their own funds to pay the insurance debts of nearly VND1.4 billion owed by the KL Texwell Vina Co.Ltd so that their workers can get unemployment insurance and other benefits.

The newly-signed Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership is expected to be a new push for the economic, trade and investment cooperation between the two nations.

The steel and aluminum imports from Vietnam only serve the purpose of civil construction, not being used for infrastructure construction or security-defence industry, and as such do not compete directly with manufacturers of the United States, announced the MOIT.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers has requested the US Department of Commerce to review the preliminary result of anti-dumping duty administrative review on shrimp products imported from Vietnam.

Up to 70% of European companies in Vietnam are upbeat about the country’s business environment, so they have decided to invest more in the coming years.

Vietnam has taken an important step in materialising its strategy of multilateralisation and diversification of cooperative relations by becoming a signatory to the CPTPP according to Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh.

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade deal was officially signed by 11 countries in the Chilean capital of Santiago, early on March 9 (Vietnam time).

A foreign-owned USD3.2-billion oil refinery project in the central coastal province of Phu Yen has had its investment license revoked due to slow implementation.

The tourism sector has generated over 140.000 jobs in the central city of Danang according to local officials.

The Ministry of Justice has opposed to a new regulation by the Ministry of Transport which bans taxi firms from offering car-sharing services.

The Hanoi People’s Procuracy on March 7 proposed 12-60 month imprisonment sentences to nine defendants in the Da River water pipeline’s 18 successive ruptures.