Business

Along with the increasing number of smartphone users, several banks have developed services to support financial transactions via mobile phones.

Unemployment continued at record highs in the 17-nation eurozone in June but there was some hope of an improvement as the numbers of those out of work fell slightly, official data showed on Wednesday.

Vietnam and Japan are working closely together to develop detailed action plans to carry out Vietnam’s industrialization strategy, as part of their co-operation agreement towards 2020 with a vision to 2030.

Leaders of state-owned enterprises which are slow in withdrawing their investments from non-core business activities might easily be dismissed.

HCM City welcomed 2.1 million international tourists in the first seven months of 2013, reaching 57% of this year target.

The illegal import and oversupply of sugar has been a big headache for the Vietnamese sugarcane sector.

Vietnam attracted nearly US$12 billion in newly and additionally registered foreign direct investment capital in the first seven months of 2013, a year-on-year of 19.6%.

Tonnes of fish in Thanh Hoa Province's Hai Binh Commune mysteriously died after a heavy rain, putting local farmers in difficulties.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has pressed the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau to tap its hydropower and mineral resources potential - key sectors to drive its economic development and the entire region as a whole.

Foreign direct investment registered during the first seven months of this year surged by 19.6 per cent over the same period last year to US$11.91 billion.

The export turnover of agro-forestry and aquaculture products is expected to reach US$15.59 billion for the first seven months of this year, down 1.6 per cent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has held a working session with the Belgian ambassador to Vietnam Bruno Angelet to discuss the building of a centre to distribute and auction Vietnamese seafood products at Zeebrugge port, Belgium.

There is a big disparity in average salary between managers at state-owned corporations and managers at their affiliates, the State Audit Office said.

The State Audit Office has announced the auditing results of 2012 which found many petrol price management violations.

The trade balance returned to a surplus for the month of July, reaching US$200 million, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said in its recent report.

The State Bank officially announced the establishment of the Vietnam Asset Management Company on July 26.

Many land plots in Hanoi valued at around VND500 million per square metre are purposely left off that market by their owners who can afford to wait until the market improves.

Vietnam Airlines made a pretax profit of VND173 billion between January and June this year despite numerous difficulties.

Companies oppose the plan to apply separate power prices for the cement and steel industries that are 2% to 16% higher.