15:54 | 10/04/2024
16:07 | 14/03/2024
According to Dr. Nguyen Minh Thao, Head of the Business Environment and Competitiveness Research Department (CIEM), businesses long to administrative reform and business environment improvement, which also are the least expensive support package amid the shortage of support resources.
14:00 | 11/01/2024
More than 2.5 years since the 13th National Party Congress, Vietnam has consolidated their determination to achieve important and comprehensive results in the journey of overcoming unprecedented challenges, focusing on preventing, fighting and controlling epidemics while promoting socio-economic recovery and development. It can be affirmed that the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress along with the Central Resolutions and Directives have come to life as a natural thing, because of their correctness and the compatibility to the real conditions and “in accordance with the people's hearts".
11:43 | 10/12/2023
Vietnamese businesses are owing to many opportunities to take advantage of cooperation with the Eurasian region. However, to concretize these opportunities, especially amid the global economic instability, businesses must take full awareness to capture market information, update regional policies as well as optimize marketing solutions, payment, and transportation.
09:08 | 18/11/2023
In recent times, Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has always paid attention and accompanied businesses to ensure good social insurance and health insurance benefits for employees according to regulations. In particular, in addition to annual dialogues with the FDI business community in general and Japanese FDI enterprises in particular on social insurance and health insurance policies , many other activities and forms such as: seminars to share experiences, expert consultancy, information and reference exchange... are performed to well implement social insurance and health insurance regimes and policies for employees.
12:09 | 09/09/2023
After nearly 8 months of 2023, the wood and forest product industry has only achieved an export value of 7.78 billion USD, while the due date to achieve the set target of 17 billion USD is just a nick of time. The delay in the incomplete recovery target is due to a sharp decline from major markets such as the US, EU, etc., along with the complicated geopolitical situation, which affects logistics and the price of raw materials and input materials.
11:46 | 19/07/2023
According to the assessment of the Central Economic Commission, the number of new projects implemented under the mode of public-private partnership as stipulated in the provisions of the Investment Law under is still limited, mainly focusing on the transport sector. This shows that public investment resources have not really promoted their leading role as "priming capital" to attractprivate sector investment in infrastructure development.
18:43 | 15/07/2023
Based on the economic growth results of the first 6 months of the year, the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) has updated and forecasted 3 scenarios for the 6 end-year month economic growth. Notably, all three of these scenarios are lower than the 6.5% target set by the Government, of which in the best scenario, CIEM forecasts GDP growth rate may reach 6.46%.
09:58 | 06/07/2023
Experts say that in order to attract private capital to airports, it is necessary to "carpet" for investors, including an open policy mechanism, especially simplified, coherent and non-risky administrative. Attracting investment in the development of aviation infrastructure needs to "activate" a new phase with a faster speed, able to overcome the "headwind" to take off.
15:45 | 27/06/2023
VCN - In the first five months of the year, labour export has completed 54.2% of the plan in 2023. Traditional markets such as Japan, Taiwan (China), and Korea still highly appreciate Vietnamese workers in terms of their agility, hard work, and solid skills. Therefore, when the market bounces back after the Covid-19 pandemic, Vietnamese workers are still offered a certain priority.
10:40 | 22/06/2023
VCN - According to preliminary statistics of the Vietnam Timber and Forest Products Association, wood processing and exporting enterprises have not yet been refunded value-added tax (VAT) of 6.1 trillion dong, which the chip export enterprises under the Wood Chip Association are over 4 trillion dong.
10:53 | 05/06/2023
VCN - Export codes have become a mandatory requirement of many markets. However, many localities are only interested in the quantity, the issuance of new planting area codes, and agricultural product packing facilities without paying attention to maintaining codes to meet the requirements of importing countries. This may lead to the risk of being stopped from exporting the whole industry.
09:33 | 05/05/2023
VCN – To quickly lift obstacles and provide timely support to forest product enterprises, the Vietnam Wood and Forest Products Association (VIFOREST) proposes a debt due extension policy for enterprises in the wood and forest product industry from six to 12 months; a special credit package from the Bank for Social Policies for businesses to pay salaries to workers in 2023 and deferred payment of social insurance, without interest, in 2023.
09:46 | 23/04/2023
VCN – Recently, China has granted certificates to 70 growing areas and 13 sweet potato packing facilities eligible for export to this country. China's export license for 70 growing areas and 13 packaging facilities in Vietnam will be an important boost for the export turnover of Vietnamese agricultural products to a large potential market.
10:13 | 03/01/2023
VCN - According to Mr Phan Huu Thang, President of the Institute for International Investment Studies (ISC), former Director of the Department of Foreign Investment, when attracting quality foreign investment (FDI) or responsible business projects, Vietnam lacks detailed guidelines or tools to support the screening, evaluation and appraisal of investment projects in the localities.