VOV.VN - As the economy gains steam, banks are growing more aggressive in marketing credit and debit cards to increasingly wealthy consumers, targeting 25% increases on the year in the number of credit card users. 

Firms listed on Vietnam's two stock exchanges in HCM City and Hanoi will be the first to be required to adopt international financial reporting standards in 2020, a finance ministry official has said.

Vietnam is expected to witness one of the largest growths in mobile broadband subscriptions in Southeast Asia together with Myanmar, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines, by 2021.

Working on regulations to oversee the competitive power wholesale market are to be completed by June 2017.

Credit in the first five months of 2016 grew 5.48% compared to the end of 2015, the highest for the past few years, according to the State Bank of Vietnam’s Credit Department.

Experts discussed measures to realise Vietnam’s aspirations of dynamic private economic development and institutional modernisation during a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on June 16. 

Vietnam treasures ties with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), considering the lender one of the top donors in the supply of capital, technical assistance and policy consultation, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told ADB President Takehiko Nakao during a reception in Hanoi on June 16.

The agricultural sector must seek all possible ways to recover its growth, not only for the second half of this year but for years to come, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat at a meeting with the press on June 16. 

VOV.VN - The biggest sellers of fish and seafood in Japan have decided to greatly reduce the number of antibiotic-treated marine products they purchase from Vietnam, a move that's expected to a deliver a huge financial blow to the aquaculture industry.

Fruit export brought home US$967 million in the first five months of this year, a 147% surge against the same period last year, according to the agricultural sector.