HANOI — After a long period of hesitation, the Vietnam National Coffee Corporation (Vinacafe) is being pushed towards equitisation once more by the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD). During a meeting on Monday at Vinacafe’s headquarter, Deputy Minister Ha Cong Tuan said he was not completely confident about the company’s latest restructuring plan. […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Techcombank plans to list its shares on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HoSE) this year and sell over 158 million treasury shares to foreign investors, informed the bank at its annual shareholders` meeting on March 3. The bank plans to sell the treasury shares to foreign investors at a minimum price […]
Read MoreOver 2,000 Honda cars from Thailand — the first batches of cars to enjoy zero percent import duty under the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) — have been imported to Vietnam. Under the AFTA commitments, a zero percent tax is applicable to cars imported from the bloc, with a localisation rate of 40 percent or […]
Read MoreBANKS IN VIETNAM and Thailand are racing to adopt digital banking technology in order to enhance their services in the age of the smartphone. Winfield Wong, head of wholesale banking at HSBC Vietnam said that country has potential for a high rate of adoption of new technologies. This prospect is triggered by a young population […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Based on positive macroeconomic indicators in the first two months of 2018, Vietnam can be confident that its GDP growth in the first quarter of the year will be equivalent to the second half of 2017 and even tough 8 per cent in a good scenario. In a report on updating Vietnam’s February […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI (XINHUA) – India and Vietnam on Saturday signed three key memorandums of understanding (MOUs) in areas like economic and trade co-operation, agricultural exchanges, and atomic energy for peaceful purposes. The pacts were inked between the two sides in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang. […]
Read More
Thailand
