Many businesses suggested more detailed policies should be issued to help them access bank loans as there remain difficulties in lending.

Many businesses in Bình Dương want the province administration to scrap the registration for having workers stay in secure workplace or work-home bubbles since approval takes too long.

Standing Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh has just signed Decision No 29/2021/QĐ-TTg of the Prime Minister on special investment incentives.

Việt Nam’s furniture exports to large markets such as the US and UK are growing despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

At least nine ministries and localities have asked the Finance Ministry to repay more than VNĐ8.054 trillion (US$352 million) of public investment capital borrowed from abroad.

Việt Nam Maritime Corporation (VIMC) wants to build a VNĐ20 trillion (more than US$869 million) container terminal in Cần Giờ District in HCM City, but experts have raised concerns over the proposal.

HCM City agencies and businesses are sending text messages to workers who have returned home, pleading with them to return to work.

Scientists and specialists have spoken highly of Phenikaa’s ability to meet the practical needs of socio-economic development.

Shares climbed higher on Monday as investors’ sentiment improved, supporting pillar stocks. 

Sixty-seven years ago, the capital city of Hanoi was liberated from the French colonial rule on October 10. So this month has a special meaning to the Hanoians and is always a time for the city to look back at what it has done in the past and embrace the future.

Over 16.91 billion USD has been raised from sales of corporate bonds in the first nine months of this year, according the Vietnam Bond Market Association (VBMA).

Vietnam’s exports to Indonesia earned the country 2.51 billion USD in the first eight months of 2021, a surge of 44.2 percent year on year despite complicated developments of COVID-19.

Sales of cement products reached about 77.47 million tonnes in the first nine months of this year, up 3.5 percent year on year despite difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Construction's Department of Construction Materials.

Retail petrol prices increased by nearly 1,000 VND per litre from 3pm on October 11 following the latest adjustment by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

The Vietnamese economy is likely to gradually recover from the fourth quarter of 2021 and escape the minus growth seen in the third quarter thanks to the activeness of the business community and the Government’s efforts to remove obstacles facing enterprises, held economist Nguyen Bich Lam who is former Director General of the General Statistics Office.

The Bamboo Airways Joint Stock Company has raised its charter capital to 18.5 trillion VND (814 million USD) from 16 trillion VND, according to the National Business Registration Portal.

Following its domestic operation resumption, Vietjet has added seven more routes to its flight network, which now includes 14 services from Ho Chi Minh City to Hai Phong, Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Vinh, Thanh Hoa, Chu Lai, Hue, Dong Hoi, Tuy Hoa, Phu Quoc, Nha Trang and Pleiku and from Hanoi to Da Nang and Can Tho.

The northern province of Thai Binh has paid heed to improving its investment and business climate as it has defined foreign direct investment (FDI) as an important solution to promote socio-economic development.

Leading technology company FPT Corporation reported a 20.9 percent year-on-year increase in pre-tax profits to 2,936 billion VND (127.7 million USD) in the first half of this year on a turnover of 16,228 billion VND (705.6 million USD), up 19.2 percent.

While a number of foreign companies have moved part of their production or orders to other countries, many still see Vietnam as a good location for investment in the long term.