A high-speed rail route between HCM City and Can Tho will help smoothen passenger and cargo transport in the Mekong Delta, transportation experts have said.

HDBank was recently selected as Asia best service and Vietnam market leader in the “Trade Finance Survey 2019” by the English-language monthly magazine Euromoney.

Enterprises in the garment and fishery sectors have set development plans to take full advantage of free trade agreements such as the CPTPP and EVFTA.

Kookmin Bank (under Korean KB Group) opened its first branch in Hanoi on the 25th floor of Landmark72 building on February 20 after having received approval from the State Bank of Vietnam.

About 65.3 per cent of Japanese companies in Vietnam gained operating profits in 2018, 0.2 percentage points more than in the previous year.

The British magazine Conde Nast Traveller has listed Vietnam’s Mekong Delta among the best destinations to visit in 2019.

The Lenovo Group from China expressed a desire to develop a computer component manufacturing factory in the northern province of Bac Giang during a meeting with local authorities this week.

The amendments to enterprise and investment laws should be aimed at promoting the development of the private sector, a conference held in Hanoi was told on February 20.

Eight months ago, local authorities in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue announced a plan to make Hue the food capital of Vietnam. On February 19, they carried out the first step.

The HCM City People’s Committee will offer more support such as workforce training and financial assistance to companies that make key industrial products.