The state-owned enterprises (SOEs) using foreign loans for production and business fields which bring profits will no longer get a government guarantee for loans.

A conference on promoting linkage among the business community in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) zone was held in the southern city of Ho Chi Minh on April 1.

In the first quarter the central province of Thua Thien - Hue reported tourism earnings of VND737 billion (US$33.5 million), an increase of 8% year-on-year.

VOV.VN - The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed official development assistance (ODA) loan agreements with the Vietnamese Government to provide 95.167 billion JPY ore more than US$ 846 million for projects in Vietnam.

Vietnam is the second-most optimistic country in consumer confidence in the Asia-Pacific, following Myanmar, as per the MasterCard Index of Consumer Confidence.

Vietnam continues to be the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s export market with the highest growth rate, according to a report released by the RoK Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) on April 1.

Most leading market analysts will tell you that intermediaries, also known as distribution intermediaries, marketing intermediaries, or middlemen, are an extremely crucial element of a company's product distribution channel.

The Ministry of Transport's Vietnam Aviation Academy and D'viation Solutions, a subsidiary of Malaysia's D'viation Group, on March 30 signed an agreement for a comprehensive strategic partnership to enhance aviation education and training in Vietnam.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to closely monitor rice production and exports.

Shares of average-sized steel firms listed on the local market recovered, thanks to the expectation of positive business results from rising steel prices in the first quarter of 2016.

The Ministry of Finance has completed tax tables on preferential import tariffs to prepare for Vietnam’s commitments in the free trade agreement (FTA) between Vietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

Taxi operator Mai Linh Group has recently requested the support of the Vietnamese government for its electric car project, which it is going to carry out with French car-maker Renault.

Two huge merger & acquisition (M&A) deals were made just in the first three months of the year. The foreign direct investment (FDI) flow into the real estate sector exceeded US$2 billion by the end of 2015.

Economists have urged authorities in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta to create a start-up environment and encourage business incubations to take full advantage of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

 The localisation rate in Vietnam-the percentage of a product locally made-is too low as the number of Vietnamese part supplying businesses accounted for only 3% of the country’s total, Phan Đang Tuat, former director of the Institute for Industrial Policy and Strategy said.

Vietnam’s aquatic export value in the first quarter of this year hit US$1.36 billion, up 1.7% year-on-year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

VOV.VN - The central city of Danang has topped the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) for the third consecutive year in a row. 

The northern port city of Hai Phong lured two new foreign direct investment (FDI) projects worth US$62.25 million in the first three months of this year.

Vietnamese life insurance companies are seeing good growth in a niche market, holding a majority market share in the north central provinces of Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Quang Binh as well as in south western localities. 

An additional US$481 million in foreign direct investment (FDI) landed in the southern province of Binh Duong in Quarter I, representing a year-on-year increase of 19%.

We should change the way we think, look beyond the country and become part of the world community as it has shrunk, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said.

Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution has announced the eleventh economic policy package, facilitating the country’s import and export activities.

Asia’s economy is forecast to grow 5.7% in 2016 and 2017, below the 5.9% projected in 2015 due to slow growth prospect for China and a weak recovery in major industrial economies.

With the effective date of a tightened policy on foreign currency lending drawing near, banks in Vietnam are taking measures to keep borrowers from turning their backs on them.

Prolonged salinization in the Mekong Delta region has heavily damaged sugarcane plantation areas in several provinces of southern Vietnam, local authorities have said.

Bio-Ethanol Dung Quat, a bio-fuel factory owned by the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), has halted operations due to continuing losses.

Outcomes of the 2015/16 Knowledge Sharing Programme (KSP) launched by the Republic of Korea (RoK) to share experience in socio-economic development with Vietnam were announced at a conference  in Hanoi on March 30.

A conference on the impacts of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement on the enterprises and economy of the Mekong Delta was held in Can Tho city on March 30.

The Vietnamese economy will remain stable in 2016 with a growth rate of 6.7%, followed by a modest slowing of growth to 6.5% in 2017, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s “Asian Development Outlook 2016” report, released on March 30. 

The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) introduced its first "digital lab", a Wi-Fi hot spot for digital banking, on March 28.