The HCM City Real Estate Association (HOREA) has proposed the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV)'s regulations on lending limits and capital adequacy ratio requirements for credit institutions, including branches of foreign banks not be changed at the moment.

The General Department of Customs would enhance efforts of administrative reforms and modernisation this year to create favourable conditions for imports and exports, a conference heard on February 25.

The Government has approved a bilateral agreement on air traffic service with Turkey on regular flights between and across the two countries’ territories.

Emirates Airlines, a leading carrier of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will launch daily flights connecting Dubai-Hanoi and Dubai-Yangon (Myanmar) from March 8th.

Executives from the Ivory Coast cashew industry met with their Vietnamese counterparts in HCM city on February 24 to discuss issues affecting bilateral trade and strengthen ties between Ivorian cashew exporters and Vietnamese processors.

Kazakhstan has ratified a free trade agreement (FTA) between Vietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

The issue of cross ownership has hindered Vietnam’s banking industry over the last ten years, causing damage to and threatening the stability of the local banking system.

Dung Quat refinery may have to close temporarily because its main products, diesel and Jet A1 fuel, cannot compete with imported counterparts since the tariff on diesel and Jet A1 from ASEAN member states has been eliminated, starting from 2016.

Natural rubber, sea shipping, pharmaceuticals, seafood, oil & gas, and steel enterprises are expected to be under pressure this year, according to securities firms.

The Transport Ministry will conduct the feasibility study of a 550km-long railway line, linking Laos' Vientiane to Vung Ang in Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh from December 2015 to December 2017.