17-07-2024 16:24
Ongoing congestion at Singapore’s container port has impacted the shipping industry’s peak season this year. Vu Nguyen Hanh, editor of Vietnam Briefing at Dezan Shira & Associates, analyses the opportunities and challenges for Vietnamese ports, as well as their alternative solutions.
19-04-2023 16:29
Early this month, Khanh Hoa People's Committee approved the revised investment policy and the investor for the Hung Phu II social housing project in Nha Trang.
23-10-2018 17:00
The National Assembly’s upcoming sixth session will vote on ratifying the resolution and related documents on Vietnam’s joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Nguyen Hanh Phuc, Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Office, sheds some light on the procedures Vietnam needs to complete to ratify the deal.
21-05-2014 17:00
In a talk with VIR about several foreign-invested enterprises suffering losses due to workers in several localities were roused to angry protests over China’s placement of a drilling rig in Vietnam’s territorial waters, National Assembly Office Chairman Nguyen Hanh Phuc said these foreign investors may be given certain tax incentives.
01-07-2013 09:13
Rolls-Royce, a world leader in aerospace, marine and energy fields, is engineering success in Vietnam.
07-05-2012 10:40
Sacombank is courting foreign institutions for new marriages after a string of institutional investors bailed out on this top-tier private bank.
07-05-2012 10:32
The State Bank recently cut key interest rates on government concerns over signs of economic stagnancy in Vietnam, such as high inventories and negative credit growth. LienVietPostBank’s vice chairman Nguyen Duc Huong tells VIR’s Nguyen Hanh why he supports the moves.
05-03-2012 06:49
Vietinbank could turn the heads of edgy investors this month as its international bond auction is launched amidst a risk averse global market.
06-02-2012 13:38
A vocational training programme in Hai Phong’s Tien Lang district funded by Deutsche Bank in cooperation with Save the Children offers hope to an impoverished community and one small family in particular, writes Nguyen Hanh
05-12-2011 09:01
The State Bank is to offer foreign bankers a much needed carrot next year when it recalibrates lending limits to torpedo a one-size-fits-all policy.
26-09-2011 10:00
A UK Houses of Parliament delegation last week visited Vietnam to leverage relations between the UK and Vietnam, which are now strategic partners under a deal signed late last year.
19-09-2011 08:00
Local lender Vietinbank looks set to clinch a key deal with Canada’s Bank of Nova Scotia within the next few months.
29-08-2011 10:00
Reducing Vietnam’s lending interest rate, stabilising the VND/USD exchange rate and consolidating the bulky system of credit institutions are all high on newly-elected State Bank Governor Nguyen Van Binh’s agenda.
15-08-2011 07:00
Foreign strategic investors are set for a breakthrough in their long desired wish to have greater stakes in Vietnamese credit institutions.
27-06-2011 08:00
Foreign banks’ January-April credit growth was 14.7 per cent, or more than double that of the banking system as a whole.