The HCM City Credit Guarantee Fund provided guarantees to eight projects of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in 2016 so they could get loans worth a total of VND360 billion (US$16.07 million).

VOV.VN - Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung on December 20 inaugurated a hydropower plant in Lai Chau Province that has the capacity to provide 4.7 billion kWh of electricity to the national grid annually.

More than 150 enterprises will showcase their products at the Vietnam International Fashion Fair 2016 (VIFF 2016), which will open its doors on December 21 at the International Centre of Exhibition in Hanoi.

Vietnam is likely to miss an export growth target of 10% that the National Assembly set for 2016, official data has suggested.

Three economic growth scenarios for the country have been revealed by the National Centre for Socio-Economic Information and Forecast (NCIF) and the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on December 19 visited Saigon New Port, one of the strong economic unit of the Vietnam People’s Navy, asking the company to fulfil its both economic and defence missions.

The strengthening of the property market with housing and other construction mushrooming all over the country has sharply pushed up the demand for system air conditioners.

The Republic of Korea’s exports to Vietnam have increased sharply this year thanks to the enforcement of a free trade agreement between the two countries which was ratified late last year.

Kamaz has announced it will continue assembling trucks in Vietnam, a move which may help dislodge Chinese trucks from the Vietnamese market.

On the sidelines of the 2016 Bloomberg ASEAN Business Summit, Wouter Van Wersch, president and CEO of GE ASEAN, talked about GE’s outlook for business in the region – particularly in Vietnam – as well as the company’s hope to co-operate with governments and the private sector to drive growth here.