Analyst’s Pick: Besides making all-out efforts to have better preparation, heads of ministries and localities should be free of wariness and dare to take risks.

CMSC recommended that VIMC divest capital in seaport enterprises, but only to a 65 per cent ownership rate.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will continue to design more plans to effectively implement the campaign of encouraging Vietnamese to prioritise Vietnamese products, while speeding up administrative reform to gain public confidence, according to Deputy Minister Đỗ Thắng Hải.

Retailers have begun to fill their warehouses ahead of end of year peak sales.

The re-opening of the air route should boost investment and tourism from Chinese Taipei and cooperation in hi-tech, agriculture and information and technology in the central city. 

According to wood industry enterprises, the demand for importing wood pellets as fuel for this winter is increasing rapidly in EU countries, Japan, and South Korea.

The strong increase in financial revenue in the third quarter helped Vingroup record a profit after tax of VNĐ506.3 billion, more than doubled over 2021.

Ho Chi Minh City has high demand for investment, high-tech agricultural technology, smart farms for sustainable development, while the Republic of Korea (RoK) is one of the partners with advantages and cooperation experience in the field, experts said at a series of seminars under the Vietnam-RoK business week launched in Ho Chi Minh City on October 31.

Ho Chi Minh City’s State budget collection has reached its target ahead of schedule, surpassing 392.7 trillion VND (17 billion USD) in the first ten months of this year, up 1.6% from the estimate and 22.3% year-on-year, reported the municipal Statistics Office.

The stock market finished higher on Monday as bottom-fishing activities lifted large-cap stocks.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.45% in October, with eight of the 11 groups of goods and services witnessing an increase in prices, the municipal Statistics Office reported on October 31.

The 21st World Congress of the International Union of Food Science & Technology (IUFoST) is being held in Singapore from October 31 – November 3, attracting over 1,200 delegates from 60 countries, including Vietnam.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) and Vietnamese automaker VinFast on October 31 signed a Memorandum of Understanding on global strategic cooperation to expand collaboration in developing electric vehicles.

Effective policies applied by the Vietnamese Government have contributed to the country's positive good economic results so far this year, according to IMF communications official Pemba Tshering Sherpa.

Credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed Vietnam's long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating at 'BB' with a positive outlook.

It is critical for State-owned enterprises (SOEs) to strengthen innovations as Vietnam has set the target of having at least 25 SOEs with a market capitalisation of 1 billion USD and more.

HDBank has launched the HDBank Petrolimex 4-in-1 super card which integrates four utilities - credit card, debit card, prepaid card, and Petrolimex ID (Petrolimex loyalty accounts) - to offer customers more flexibility in spending.

Domestic airlines have planned to increase the number of seats to 6.7 million from 5.1 million to meet the travel demand ahead of and during the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet), according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

Vietnam’s index of industrial production (IIP) went up 9% in the first 10 months of this year, the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) reported.

The Embassy of Italy to Việt Nam last week celebrated the one year anniversary of Italy’s nation-branding communication campaign promoting “Made in Italy” named beIT in 26 countries worldwide, including Việt Nam.