The growth prospects of the domestic food and beverage industry are expected to be positive next year buoyed by new consumption trends, according to experts.

Vietcombank announced that it will waive fees for maintaining services and money transfer transaction on VCB Digibank application from January 1.

In the last trading days of the year, the country's stock market has seen a flurry of activity, with many companies witnessing profit-taking activities from their leaders and families. 

Despite a negative impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Việt Nam’s exports have scored a spetacular success this year with 11-month export revenues reaching approximately US$300.

Despite the prolonged pandemic, foreign investors registered to pump US$31.15 billion into Việt Nam in 2021, up 9.2 per cent year-on-year, the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) has said. 

A number of big retailers in Japan is planning to expand operations in the Vietnamese market despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnamese shares managed to maintain upward trend after volatile afternoon trading session amid large differences in large-cap prices.

Many banks have recently offered to sell mortgaged assets, mainly real estate, worth billions of VND, to recover debts amid the recovery of the realty market.

With import and export values hitting nearly 39 billion USD and over 45 billion USD in 2021 respectively, the northern province of Bac Ninh posted a trade surplus of more than 6.4 billion USD, said the provincial statistics department at its meeting on December 28.

As China continues to stick to its zero-COVID policy and impose strict measures on people and goods entering the country, Vietnamese authorities are putting forward solutions to ease trade bottlenecks at border gates.

Becamex Tokyu Co. Ltd, a joint venture between Vietnam’s Becamex IDC Corp and Japan’s Tokyu Corporation, began construction of the first shopping centre named Sora Gardens SC in Binh Duong New City in the southern province of Binh Duong on December 28.

Credit growth has reached 12.97 percent so far and is likely to hit 14 percent this year, Standing Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Dao Minh Tu said in a press conference on the SBV's governance of monetary policies and banking operation on December 28.

President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Tuesday called for the central city of Đà Nẵng to become a city "worth living, worth investing in and worth experiencing” when attending a talk marking 25 years since the city was recognised as a centrally-governed city.

An online seminar spotlighting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on textile, footwear and garment workers and trade union activities was held by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL)’s Institute for Workers and Trade Unions (IWTU), and the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation in Hanoi on December 28.

Vietnamese abroad sent home some 12.5 billion USD this year, a year-on-year increase of 10 percent, Standing Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam Dao Minh Tu told the Vietnam News Agency in a press conference on December 28.

Member carriers of Vietnam Airlines Group are planning to resume 10 more domestic air routes from January 2022, raising the number of such routes to nearly 50.

Member carriers of Vietnam Airlines Group are planning to resume 10 more domestic air routes from January 2022, raising the number of such routes to nearly 50.

Many banks have recently offered to sell mortgaged assets, mainly real estate, worth billions of Vietnamese đồng, to recover debts amid the recovery of the realty market.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,142 VND/USD on December 28, down 32 VND from the previous day.

The electric-car race is only just beginning in Việt Nam and VinFast have taken an early lead. Late last week they officially handed over the first batch of VFe34 electric automobiles to clients, the first electric cars to hit the road in Việt Nam.