Vietnam plans to hasten the reform of customs checks to save time and costs for businesses and facilitate trade.
An equity crowdfunding platform is being established to boost the development of start-up firms.
The Government is set to issue a decree on the lists of preferential export tariffs and special preferential import tariffs to implement the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) when the deal comes into force in Vietnam.
The Ministry of Finance has decided to exempt tax on the import of five commodity groups needed to fight the novel coronavirus in Vietnam.
The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has asked the Government for advice over a loan owed to China for the long-delayed and still not yet operational Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway project.
Inefficient State-owned enterprises must be handled this year, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.
The automobile market is expected to boom this year as the Government mulls a number of favourable policies to help reduce costs, improve demand and increase output.
The retail prices of petrol were reduced as from 3pm on January 30 following the latest adjustment by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.
The Ministry of Finance will tighten regulations over corporate bond issuance because of an overheating market to protect investors and prevent risks which might arise from the abuse of this capital raising channel.
Five ministries have universally rejected a proposal by the transport ministry to restrict private investment in the country’s biggest airports and instead hand the job to a single company.
Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung has urged the Authority of Radio Frequency Management to auction off space on the 2.6 Ghz spectrum.
The insurance industry aims to maintain a high growth rate of 18.42 percent this year, gaining revenue of 188.73 trillion VND (8.1 billion USD), according to the Ministry of Finance’s Insurance Supervisory Authority (ISA).
A sustainable stock market would help drive Vietnam’s economic growth and serve the nation, said Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung.
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has proposed fines of between 20 million VND (862 USD) and 50 million (2,155 USD) for the act of printing fraudulent invoices.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue said that the economic growth in 2019 is certain to exceed 7 percent, which is much higher than the inflation rate of around 2.7 - 2.8 percent.
To improve the quality of public products and services, the Government in June 2015 issued a decision to transform public non-business organisations into joint-stock businesses.
As the Thai economy is likely to continue to experience a slowdown in the remaining weeks of 2019, the Ministry of Finance has issued measures to stimulate the economy in late 2019. It has also proposed some projects to strengthen the local economy in the 2020 fiscal year.
Only nine state-owned enterprises (SOEs) were given the green light from the government for their equitisation plans this year, reported the Ministry of Finance (MoF).
The Ministry of Finance has recently sent Dispatch No.14813/BTC-CST to competent ministries and sectors, suggesting cutting import on chicken and pork products.
The Ministry of Finance inked a cooperation framework to strengthen infrastructure finance with the US Department of the Treasury in Hanoi on November 6.
