March 27, 2023 | 12:14
Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan has asked private-run healthcare facilities to contribute more to policymaking, diagnosis and treatment, private healthcare and preventive health.
January 29, 2022 | 12:31
Vietnam will enhance IT application and digital transformation in education and training in the next few years, with an aim to innovate the sector and digitalise it, thus contributing to the development of a digital government, economy, and society.
September 06, 2019 | 11:58
Industrial growth should remain high and a key driver of growth, spearheaded by a burgeoning manufacturing sector, especially electronics and mining.
March 11, 2013 | 17:38
Proposed wage reforms have got businesses thinking.
February 04, 2013 | 17:15
Many foreign invested enterprises have contributed to Vietnam’s economic growth—but some have also damaged the country’s land, water and air, as VIR’s Khoi Nguyen reports.
January 24, 2013 | 09:51
General Department of Taxation deputy chief Vu Van Truong tell VIR about the tax sector’s achievements in 2012 and ways to complete the government’s tasks for 2013.
January 03, 2013 | 10:21
Foreign-invested enterprises in Vietnam have over the past years generated lots of jobs for local workers. And their thirst for such workers has never abated. Khoi Nguyen reports.
January 02, 2013 | 10:55
While Vietnam has maintained macroeconomic stability for a period of 18 months or longer, restructuring the economy holds the key to reviving its growth prospects, write World Bank Vietnam chief economist Deepak Mishra and Viet Tuan Dinh.
December 25, 2012 | 13:06
Vietnam’s agro-forestry-aquatic sector continues to spread its roots despite turbulent economic times.
December 19, 2012 | 15:09
The State Presidential Office has held a press meeting announcing State President’s Order on the promulgation of amended and supplemented Law on Tax Administration, a crucial legal tool for the tax sector to ramp up the fight against transfer pricing.
December 17, 2012 | 16:53
Vietnam’s frozen real estate market is unlikely to thaw in 2013, and may not rebound before a restructuring of the domestic banking industry addresses the crisis in credit and bad debts, writes Dr. Christian Kamm, president of US-backed investment advisory firm Kamm Investment, in Ho Chi Minh City.
December 12, 2012 | 13:00
The government, in a bold move, is prepared to think out of the square to innovate its policy-making.
December 10, 2012 | 14:10
Non-performing loan and cross-ownership are two big issues that Vietnam has to clean up in its banking sector to improve investors’ confidence in the economy.
December 10, 2012 | 11:45
This Monday’s Consultative Group meeting for Vietnam aims to advise the government on ways to address a series of economic bottlenecks.
December 06, 2012 | 17:22
Vietnam improved its ranking in respect to tax facilitation as seen in the recent World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC)’s Doing Business 2013 Report, but it remains near the bottom among ASEAN countries. Hoang Thi Lan Anh, deputy head of General Department of Taxation (GDT)’s Reform and Modernisation Department, sheds some light on the matter.