Việt Nam should make haste in its effort to vaccinate its labour force in agriculture and food production, recommended a task force from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Deposit mobilisation by credit institutions in HCM City grew by 4 per cent as of July 31 to VNĐ3.02 quadrillion (US$132.5 billion), according to the State Bank of Vietnam.

Việt Nam’s stock market was mixed on Friday, with the VN-Index ending its long rally on losses of bank stocks in the last trading minutes.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ca Mau province will popularise Vietnamese good agricultural practices (VietGAP) and organic standards in order to increase the value and yield of its bananas.

Many towage and pilot service providers have reduced their prices amid the difficulties faced by maritime transport companies due to the slowing down in activities because of COVID-19, according to a report by the Việt Nam Maritime Administration.

Container shipping cost in Việt Nam has increased fourfold, even eightfold on certain high-demand routes compared to pre-pandemic level, said a logistics report by SSI Research.  

The Saigon-Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SHB) has been named winner of the Asian Banking and Finance (ABF) awards for the seventh consecutive years.

A business networking conference was organised virtually on Thursday to seek ways to boost the export of dragon fruit to India and Pakistan amid difficulties due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang pocketed 1.96 billion USD from exports in the first seven months of 2021, up 19.8 percent year-on-year and equal to 60.2 percent of the yearly plan, said Acting Director of the provincial Department of Industry and Trade Dang Van Tuan.

A business networking conference was organised virtually on August 5 to seek ways to boost the export of dragon fruit to India and Pakistan amid difficulties due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite a fall in Vietnam's rice exports so far this year, experts held that the situation will be improved once the COVID-19 pandemic is controlled.

VPBank has now been awarded the Achievement in Enterprise Risk Management in 2021 award by The Asian Banker for two consecutive years. The award has reaffirmed its leading position in the country’s risk management sector, comparable to the leading financial institutions in Asia.

Vietnam prioritises foreign investment projects in high technology, innovation, research and development, and projects that create favourable conditions for Vietnamese enterprises to participate in the value chain, as well as those related to promoting the digital economy and actively contributing to the country’s sustainable socio-economic development.

The General Department of Taxation plans to launch the first version of an electronic tax mobile app (Etax-mobile) this month.

Bình Phước Province plans to repossess over 4,100 hectares of lands mostly from delayed projects for “national defence and socio-economic development,” its People’s Council has said in a resolution.

An Australia-funded project has chosen nine leading agritech scale-ups from overseas to enter the Vietnamese market with an aim of solving the country’s most pressing agrifood challenges, according to the Australian Embassy in Hà Nội.

The Committee for Management of State Capital at Enterprises (CMSC) has proposed merging two member companies of the Việt Nam Railways Corporation (VNR) in an effort to slash costs and improve efficiency as the industry struggles with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Banks at the end of July reported significant increases in first-half profits on strong credit growth despite pressures from the pandemic

SeABank will reduce interest rate by maximum one per cent a year for loans of its existing customers till the end of this year to share their difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The disbursed public investment declined in July due to the surge in COVID-19 cases, but it still grew 5.6 percent in the first seven months of 2021 as compared to the same period last year.