Business

PetroVietnam announces split
09/10/2012 11:50
Oil and gas giant PetroVietnam said it will divest from PetroVietnam Finance Corp � Thuc said Petro Vietnam would not be able to divest capital from this financial company if PVFC continued to operate under the current business model, as this model will soon no longer exist in the...
Breakthrough opportunity for exports
06/10/2012 04:24
Vincent Wong, Senior Managing Director of Buyers, Services, and Development at e-commerce site Alibaba.com, explains that major importers previously searched for goods and resources from traditional markets like India and China. He believes their priorities are changing, encouraging more to...
Serious anemia in children dealt
03/10/2012 03:38
According to Dr. Nguyen Dinh Van, deputy director of Oncology and Hematology at the Ho Chi Minh City Children’s Hospital No. 2, thalassemia is a kind of generic anemia that results in fatigue, exhaustion, weakness and shorter life spans. Thalassemia patients produce an abnormal form of...
Analysts caution foreign investment in banking
03/10/2012 03:21
The governor of the State Bank of Vietnam , Nguyen Van Binh, said increasing the rate up to which foreign investors can buy into Vietnamese banks would help restructure the banking system, and the central bank has recommended this. But he admitted that the issue should be carefully...
London Lord Mayor desires further links with Vietnam
25/09/2012 01:53
Speaking on September 24 at a roundtable discussion in Hanoi with the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) legal frameworks, Mayor Wootton said London aims to build a strong strategic business partnership with Vietnam and share...
Prices driven up in Hanoi, HCMC
23/09/2012 05:21
The latest CPI figure of the capital city, the steepest rise since April last year, represented a 5.4 percent increase in 2012 and a 6.49 percent year-on-year rise. In September, only the group of post and telecommunications services remained unchanged, while ten other groups of commodities...
Exits signal new age for VN telecoms
21/09/2012 05:05
Le Nam Thang, deputy minister of Information and Communications, said Vietnamese telecommunications companies now had the necessary conditions to develop by themselves. These conditions included capital, experience and workforce. Many domestic telecom companies did not lack capital and it...