Business

The government has proposed to the National Assembly to cut corporate income tax rates from 25% to 22%.

The government should not apply any caps on either deposit or lending interest rates as it’s not good for the market, an economist said.

Hundreds of business representatives from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea discussed the possibility of establishing stronger partnerships at a joint forum in Seoul on April 19.

Measures to further attract foreign direct investment into southern provinces are the focus of a conference that took place in the central province of Binh Dinh.

Advanced and developing countries alike voiced worries over fragile global growth as the IMF and World Bank spring meetings kicked off.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry released 2012 edition of its annual report on Vietnamese businesses in Hanoi on April 18.

Hundreds of consumer households and businesses trading in the salagane bird in HCM City have started to feel the effects after thousands of salaganes died last week in central Ninh Thuan Province.

Several luxury real estate projects in Hanoi are finding it hard to sell their housing, and are forecast to remain unsold for next decade.

Vietnam-Singapore Business Forum 2013 opens in Ho Chi Minh City on April 17 in the presence of Bui Quang Vinh, Vietnam ’s Minister of Planning and Investment and Lim Hng Kiang, Singapore ’s Minister of Trade and Industry.

The credit industry has been a recent introduction to Vietnam, and some financing companies have taken advantage of consumers' lack of knowledge.

The Ministry of Information and Communications should give State-owned mobile carrier MobiFone access to greater market share in a bid to stay competitive in the lucrative mobile phone market.

Ho Chi Minh City has set developing hi-tech and support industries as the key to realising economic restructuring and growth model shift by 2015.

The Government Inspectorate made public the names of six pharmaceutical companies found to be trading illegal products.

US businesses have voiced their support for Vietnam’s efforts in promoting negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement between Vietnam and other countries, including the US.

Big C The Garden, a branch of BigC Hanoi, has been fined VND35 million after mislabelling local grapes with a Chinese flag.

Foreign direct investment in HCM City in the first quarter of the year rose by 109 per cent compared to the same period last year, pointing to a positive trend that indicates investors feel more confident about the economy.

The Minister of Construction has confirmed that they will make amendments to loosen foreign property ownership regulations in Vietnam this year.

The minister of construction, Trinh Dinh Dung, said that the credit stimulus package, amounting to VND30 trillion, is necessary to support the real estate sector.

A number of build-transfer projects in Hanoi are incurring lots of problems and need re-planning due to capital shortage or site clearance.