Business

US businesses have presented an antidumping and counterveiling duty petition to the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and the US International Trade Commission (ITC) against circular welded carbon steel pipes (CWP) imported from five countries, including Vietnam.

The People's Committee of Lam Dong Province is calling for help from the Vietnam Tea Association as the tea sector is facing great difficulties in export sales.

The Vietnam E-commerce and Information Technology Agency (VECITA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade set a goal to get 30 percent of Vietnamese people shopping online by 2020.

In terms of total downloads of videos, the biggest country for YouTube is still far and away the US, however it has seen big gains in viewer and subscriber growth in Vietnam over the past year.

Small and medium-sized firms are facing difficulties accessing bank loans to boost production.

The development of the foreign direct investment (FDI) sector and the domestic business sector next year need to be better balance, Head of the Central Economic Commission Vuong Dinh Hue said.

Japan has just transfered tuna fishing technology and equipment to Binh Dinh fishermen.

The 15th International Agriculture Trade Fair (Agro Viet 2015) will be held in Hanoi between November 6 and 9.

The low-cost carrier Vietjet Air will launch two new air routes linking Nha Trang to Hai Phong and Vinh to Buon Ma Thuot, announced the company on October 30.

The Asia Fashion Summit 2015 (AFS 2015), and an international exhibition on fashion and materials for the garment industry, are scheduled to take place in Hanoi in the next month.

The United Kingdom wishes to further cooperate in specific projects with Vietnam in general and Ho Chi Minh City in particular, said Lord David Puttnam, the UK Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.

The Ministry of Finance announced the establishment of the Office for Transfer Pricing Inspection under the General Department of Taxation.

The World Bank has ranked Vietnam 90 out of 189 countries in its latest report on the ease of doing business globally; also known as the Doing Business report.

Foreign investors have pumped more than US$19.292 billion in 1,657 new and 667 existed FDI (foreign direct investment) projects in the first ten months of this year, a rise of 40.8% against the corresponding period last year.

The Ha Noi Transport Association has suggested that Uber and Grabtaxi services should be suspended to ensure equal competition between them and the normal taxi firms.

Vietnam's consumer price index (CPI) in October inched up 0.11 per cent from September, the same as last year's corresponding period, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced.

The trial of six Viet Nam Railway Corporation (VNR) officials accused of abuse of power while performing their duties, commenced at the Ha Noi People's Court on October 26.

The Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) will start to import between 2 million and 3 million tonnes of coal in 2016.

The Vietnam Assets Management Company has issued special bonds to purchase over 92 trillion VND worth of bad debts from the beginning of this year, according to Nguyen Quoc Hung – Chairman of VAMC’s member board.